Operator: Future Global Resources Ltd.
Location: Western Region, Ghana
Stream: 5.5% of Payable Gold
Term of Stream: Life of Mine
The Bogoso and Prestea properties comprise a collection of adjoining mining concessions that together cover an 85-kilometer section of the Ashanti gold trend district in the central-eastern section of the Western Region of Ghana. Historical mining activity has occurred from underground and open-pit operations feeding both refractory and oxide processing plants. Future Global Resources Ltd. (“FGR”) owns a 90% interest in Bogoso and Prestea, and the Government of Ghana owns the remaining 10%.
The Prestea Underground mine is a shaft access, narrow vein, mechanized long-hole operation. Ore is hoisted to surface and trucked to the Bogoso oxide plant for processing. Various small satellite oxide pits are also operating to feed the plant.
The Bogoso oxide plant is a 1.5 million tonne per annum (Mtpa) carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit. The Bogoso refractory plant is a 4.5 Mtpa bio-leach plant that was decommissioned in 2015.
In May 2015, Royal Gold’s wholly-owned subsidiary, RGLD Gold AG, acquired a gold stream from a wholly-owned subsidiary of Golden Star Resources Ltd. (“Golden Star”), which included production from Golden Star’s Wassa, Bogoso and Prestea mines. Effective September 30, 2020, upon the sale of the Bogoso and Prestea mines by Golden Star to FGR, the stream agreement between RGLD Gold AG and Golden Star was separated to provide for a separate stream agreement between RGLD Gold AG and FGR for the Bogoso and Prestea mines. After the separation, Royal Gold has no carrying value assigned to the Bogoso and Prestea stream.
RGLD Gold AG has the right to purchase 5.5% of payable gold produced from FGR’s Bogoso and Prestea mines. The cash purchase price for gold is 30% of the spot price of gold per ounce delivered. Payable gold is calculated as 99.5% of contained gold in doré or 99.0% in any other form.