PT Aneka Tambang Tbk (ANTM) has increased exploration activities at the Pongkor gold mine, Bogor. This is intended to maintain the sustainability of operations in the midst of mine reserve dynamics.
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Director of Business Development of Antam, I Dewa Wirantaya said, this exploration was carried out to ensure that the mine life could be extended after 2030. ASal just knows, the Pongkor mine has entered the post-mining phase and the need to maintain continuity of production after 2030.
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"For this reason, the team is conducting an aggressive exploration evaluation to ensure the decision from Pongkor," said Dewa, quoted Tuesday, December 16.
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Meanwhile, Antam's Director of Operations and Production, Hartono, said that the current gold reserves at Pongkor are estimated at 5 tons or about 800,000 tons of gold ore.
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"Then our resources are still around 2.6 million with a rate of 7. For those who are reserves will be mined until 2027," continued Hartono.
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Previously, Antam also targeted several new areas that have gold reserves. Director of Business Development Antam, I Dewa Wirantaya did not deny that at this time Antam is also looking for gold reserves abroad. This, he said, is one of the inorganic strategies carried out by the company.
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For domestic areas, Antam is targeting Aceh and Java Island which still have jumbo reserves and will start from greenfield mining or mines that have not been touched.
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"Of course we are seeing some new areas that we have coordinated both domestically and abroad. In the country we have seen that there are several areas, the Java area, Aceh and so on," he said, quoted Friday, June 13.
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