EPZ's Cerro Jumil

JOE MAZUMDAR, Haywood Securities (01/18/2011)
"At Cerro Jumil, Esperanza Resources has completed a positive PEA, which returned an M&I resource of 636 Koz. grading 0.80 g/t gold and 479 Koz. grading 0.60 g/t silver. An additional inferred resource of 378 Koz. grading 0.74 g/t gold and 6,068,000 ounces grading 11.9 g/t silver has been defined. The PEA envisages a conventional open-pit, heap-leach scenario, with a recovery rate of about 68%, at a cash cost of US$418/oz., requiring about $72M of development capital. The conceptual mine plan would deliver just over 50 Koz. gold/year from the heap-leach process.

The July 2010 feasibility study on San Luis estimates production of 78 Koz. gold and 1.86 Moz. silver over a 3.5-year mine life (100% basis). The operating cost is estimated to be about $160/ton of ore processed with a development capex of $90.4M. An NPVS% is estimated at $39.2M, with an IRR at 26.5% based on a gold price of $800/oz. and a silver price of $12.50/oz. ($154M NPVS% using $1,350 gold and $25 silver prices)."

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