9M Silver Ounces Per Year Production Three Years from Now with Aurcana Silver CEO Kevin Drover
Aurcana Silver Corp. (TSXV:AUN – OTC: AUNFF) has 100% ownership of the world’s highest-grade silver mine (P&P): the Revenue-Virginius mine in Ouray, Colorado, USA. This fully-permitted mine will also be one of the lowest-cost silver producers in the world at only US$8/oz Ag (AISC) after byproduct credits. In this interview CEO Kevin Drover provides a construction update and production goals for the next three years. Silver ore will be fed into the mill starting in about two months and the company will be cashflow positive shortly thereafter. In the first full year of production Aurcana’s conservative estimate of after-tax cashflow is US$50M at $26/oz silver Kevin said. However, he expects to beat that low estimate. Aurcana is also moving the fully-permitted Shafter silver mine in Texas back towards production. Thus, Kevin said in three years from now between the RV mine and the Shafter mine, Aurcana should be producing around nine million silver ounces per year as a mid-tier silver producer.
Kevin Drover has over 40 years of both domestic and international experience. He was previously VP Worldwide Operations at Kinross Gold and possesses experience in all aspects of mining industry operations, process re-engineering, project development and corporate management.
