Buffelsfontein safety stoppages cost Village 53 production days

Village has posted production figures for the June-quarter, showing that, excluding production from Blyvooruitzicht, the mine it recently acquired from DRDGold, the group's output was 0.73% lower than that of the first quarter; which itself showed a 15% decrease on the December period, says Mining Review.

Village says that although Buffelsfontein managed to improve gold grades mined, this did not translate to higher gold production. Safety stoppages, the group says, resulted in a loss of 53 production days - the equivalent of 107kg of gold production and 86t of antimony production, Mining Review reports.

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