Wood Contracted to Expand Tasiast Gold Mine

Kinross selected Wood to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services to Kinross Gold for the Phase Two expansion of Tasiast gold mine in Mauritania. The project is expected to increase mill capacity to 30,000 metric tons per day (mt/d) to produce an average of approximately 812,000 ounce per year (oz/y) of gold for the first five years, and is Kinross Gold’s second of a planned two-phase expansion. Wood’s scope of work includes engineering, procurement and construction management for the addition of a new downstream processing plant fed by milled product from the semi-autogenous grinding mill installed during the initial expansion. Commercial production for Phase Two is expected in Q3 2020.
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