Gatos Silver Provides Update on Temporary Power Restriction at Cerro Los Gatos
Gatos Silver (GATO) reports temporary power restrictions at its Cerro Los Gatos (CLG) site due to severe winter storms in Texas impacting natural gas supply to Mexico. The mine can maintain residential and administrative power through diesel generators but will operate underground mining at a reduced rate. Ore will be stockpiled due to processing plant shutdown for maintenance, which will be accelerated during this period. The firm continues to explore its mineral rights in Chihuahua, which remains largely underexplored with significant potential for silver production.
- Cerro Los Gatos project is designed for independent operation, ensuring basic functions continue.
- The company has significant mineral rights in Chihuahua, indicating potential for future exploration and production.
- Power allocation to Cerro Los Gatos from Mexico's grid is temporarily restricted, impacting operations.
- Underground mining will continue at a reduced rate, affecting immediate output.
Gatos Silver, Inc. (NYSE/TSX: GATO) (“Gatos Silver” or the “Company”) reports that power from Mexico’s national power grid has been restricted due to the recent severe winter storms in Texas. Northern Mexico is highly dependent upon natural gas from Texas to generate power. Freezing temperatures in Texas compounded by increased energy demands for heating have resulted in U.S. natural gas producers curtailing delivery to Mexico. Accordingly, Cerro Los Gatos’ (“CLG”) power allocation from Mexico’s electric power grid has been temporarily restricted.
The CLG project was designed to allow the mine and processing plant to operate independently. The project has diesel-powered generators with sufficient capacity to maintain power to the residential camp, surface administrative facilities and the underground mine but not the processing plant. Underground mining will continue at a reduced rate with mined ore placed on the surface ore storage stockpile. A planned shutdown for processing plant maintenance will be accelerated and completed during this temporary power restriction.
About Gatos Silver
Gatos Silver is a silver dominant exploration, development and production company that discovered a new silver and zinc-rich mineral district in southern Chihuahua State, Mexico. To-date, 14 zones of mineralization have been defined within the district and all are characterized by silver-zinc-lead epithermal mineralization. More than
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