UK 18:49 Sunday, 8 November 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
John Meyer of SP Angel this morning comments on Anglo American (AAL), Aureus Mining (AUE), International Ferro Metals (IFL) Metminco (MMC) and Rio Tinto (RIO) as well as offering a detailed macro view on the news that is shaping global mining and the AIM mining pond
David Reading, chief executive officer of West Africa focused gold play Aureus Mining (AUE), is celebrating the first gold pour from its flagship New Liberty project in Liberia not only with the receipt of narrowly in-the-money share options but by charting a production ramp up which he hopes will take production from an initial 50,000 to 60,000 oz. this year to a targeted 112,000 oz. in 2016. According to Reading, likely capital spending is ‘on track for $172 million (£115.2 million)’, while ‘recent estimates suggested cash costs could be just under $800 an ounce,’ against a present gold price of $1,192.75c an ounce.
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David Reading, chief executive officer of West Africa-focused gold play Aureus Mining (AUE), describes as ‘very significant’ the award by the Liberian authorities of a 21-km. extension to the company’s Bea Mountain mining licence to include the promising Leopard Rock target. With its flagship New Liberty gold project set to start producing by the end of May or the beginning of June, the mining licence extension, which brings in Leopard Rock along a 13-km. gold-bearing corridor, comes hard on the heels of a pronouncement from the World Health Organisation that Liberia is now free from the deadly ebola virus.
West Africa-focused Aureus Mining (AUE) says it is on track to start producing gold from its one million-plus-oz. New Liberty project in Liberia by the end of next month. The company, steered by well-regarded chief executive officer and former European Goldfields boss David Reading, declares it expects first gold from New Liberty, which will be previously strife-torn Liberia’s first gold mine, by the end of May and anticipates delivering 119,000 oz. of gold a year for six out of New Liberty’s eight years of expected production.
