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La Bodega Project

Project Overview

Ventana Gold Corp.’s flagship La Bodega project area covers 880 hectares in the historic California-Vetas gold mining district of northeastern Colombia. The project area comprises the La Bodega, Coloro, El Cuatro and La Baja mineral rights tenements that are 100% owned by Ventana Gold Corp. In March 2011, AUX Canada Acquisition Inc. acquired Ventana Gold Corp. for $1.5B.

Project Scope

JDS Energy & Mining Inc. was retained by Ventana in August 2010 to reactivate mine operations in accordance with the current exploitation permit. JDS’ scope of work included the construction of a 20 tpd pilot plant, followed by an 200 tpd pilot plant.

With the existing La Bodega and La Baja Process Plants operations currently suspended, JDS scope of work included:

  • Convert an agreed strategy into concrete work plans for implementation on site;
  • Design, procure, assemble, ship and install required equipment;
  • Partner with Ventana Human Resource and CVS Exploration to field labour force requirements;
  • Establish and implement Health, Safety and Environment standards to satisfy both Colombia regulations and industry best practices;
  • Manage site modifications, construction and plant commissioning;
  • Analyze underground mapped workings and current drill and mapping data;
  • Procurement of an underground mining fleet; and
  • Manage underground mine reactivation and operation.
Company
Ventana Gold Corp.

Location
Bucaramanga, Colombia

Value
$10M