Mining begins at Reward underground
Mining begins at Reward underground Vertex Minerals (ASX: VTX) has commenced underground production at its Reward gold mine in NSW following a successful first blast over the weekend. The milestone, targeting the Lady Belmore reef, keeps the company on track to commence processing of high-grade stope ore at the gravity processing plant until full scale operations begin at Reward. The startup mine schedule, as previously announced, includes mining 2,075t at 17.8g/t of gold from a developed airleg stop block with the planned stope width the same as the interpretation of the mineralisation. Reward’s underground mining operation has a current...
