Crown Mining Corp. Files Technical Report and Preliminary Economic Assessment for Moonlight- Superior Project on Sedar
New ws Release
c Assessment for Moonligh Crown n Mining Corp
p. Files Techn nical Report a and Prelimina ary Economic ht‐ Superior r Project on S Sedar
April 12, 2018 ‐ TORONTO, ONTA ARIO‐ Crown Mining Corp
p. (TSX VENT TURE:CWM) (“Crown” or r “the Company”) is pleased to announce e that it has fi iled a Nationa al Instrument t 43‐101 tech hnical report f for its 100% own ned Moonligh ht‐Superior Project titled "
"Technical Re eport and Pre eliminary Economic Assess sment an effective date of for the Moonlight Dep posit, Moonlig ght‐Superior C Copper Project, California, , USA" with a ment Study ("PEA") March 2, 2018 and a re elease date o of April 12, 2018. The Preli iminary Economic Assessm was prepa ared by Tetra a Tech of Van ncouver, Canada and desc cribes the po otential techn nical and econ nomic viability o of establishing g a conventio onal open‐pit t copper‐silve er mine‐and‐mill complex x for a 60,000 0 ton‐ Cameron Resource Consul per‐day o operation. The e Company al lso engaged C lting, LLC (“CR RC”) to comp plete a mineral r resource est timate on th he Moonligh ht deposit w with an effe ective date of Decembe er 15, unced on March 2, 2017. There are no m material chang ges to the PE EA results wh hich were orig ginally annou 2018.
Highlights s of the PEA In nclude:
- Pre‐tax Net Pre esent Value (NPV): US$ 23 37M at a 8% d discount rate and a $3.15 copper price. .
- Pre‐Tax Internal Rate of Ret turn (IRR): 16 6.4%
- Pre‐tax Paybac ck Period: 4.8 8 years
- After‐tax NPV of US$179M and after tax x IRR of 14.6% % for the base e case
- In nitial Capital C Cost: US$513M, including a contingency provision in n the amount t of US$71M
- Plant Processin ng Rate: 60,000 tons per d day (STPD)
- Average Coppe er Recovery: 86.0%
- Copper concen ntrate Produc ction: Averaging 163,000 t tons per year (STPY) with a an average gr rade of f 28%.
- M Mine Life: 17 y years, based o on the existin ng Mineral Re esource estim mate
- Projected Direct Employme ent: 332 empl loyees (163 p process and G G&A; 169 mining)
- Li ife of mine co opper product tion of 1.5 bil llion pounds
The full n news release with the PE EA highlights dated Marc ch 2, 2018 ca an also be fo ound on bot th the rown Mining Corp. company’
’s website at www.crownm miningcorp.co om or on ww ww.sedar.com m under the Cr profile.
dered Please no ote the PEA is preliminary i in nature and d includes infe erred minera al resources th hat are consid too specu ulative geolog gically to hav ve the econo omic consider rations applie ed to them t that would e enable them to be categorize ed as minera al reserves. F Furthermore, there is no certainty tha at the prelim minary economic c assessment will be realized. Mineral resources t erves do not have that are not mineral rese t when it is filed. demonstr rated econom mic viability. R Readers are en ncouraged to
- read the tec chnical report
About Cro own Mining C Corp.
mining claims in the Crown controls approx ximately 15 square miles o of patented a and unpatent ted federal m Light’s Cre eek Copper D District in Plum mas County, NE California; essentially, the entire Di istrict. The D District contains substantial copper (silver) sulfide and copper oxide resources in three deposits – Moonlight, Superior and Engels, as well as several partially tested and untested exploration targets.
The Superior and Engels Mines operated from about 1915‐1930 producing over 161 million pounds of copper from over 4 million tons of rock containing 2.2% copper with silver and gold credits. The Moonlight Deposit was discovered and drilled by Placer Amex during the 1960’s.
Further details of the resources on Crown’s property and the parameters used to calculate them can be found in the above mentioned Technical Report on the Moonlight Project dated April 12, 2018 now filed on Sedar.com.
Mr. George Cole is the Qualified Person pursuant to NI 43‐101 responsible for the technical information contained in this news release, and he has reviewed and approved this news release.
For more information please see Crown’s website at www.crownminingcorp.com.
For Further Information Contact:
Mr. Stephen Dunn, President, CEO and Director, Crown Mining Corporation (416) 361‐2827 or email [email protected].
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