Blue Note Mining‘s Caribou zinc-lead mine hit a new production high in August with the drilling of 93,172.1 tonnes equalling 100.2% of the plant’s capacity.  The mine, located near Bathurst, New Brunswick, saw August’s recovery of lead at 70.4% lead as well as over 75% lead recovery nine days in August.

Correspondingly, in terms of concentrate grades, Caribou achieved a zinc concentrate grade of 50.1% and a lead concentrate grade of 42.3%. Metal in concentrate production for the month was 5,298,539 lbs of lead, 10,535,766 lbs of zinc and 2818 kgms of silver. Since commercial production was declared on January 1st of this year, production performance has continuously improved on a month after month basis.

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