Highlights:
- Construction at Robex’s Kiniero Gold Project, Guinea, remains on schedule and budget with first gold pour on track for Q4 2025.
- Project remains LTI free (lost time injury).
- All project engineering and detail design completed.
- Phase 1 grade control drilling of Mansounia pit continues, with 55,430m drilled and 61,520 samples collected. Mansounia drilling to be completed by end of June, with drilling to commence at the Sabali pit.
- SMP (Structural, Mechanical & Piping) works commenced, with 115 tonnes erected in the milling building and pipe racks.
- All purchase orders for mechanical and electrical equipment, piping and electrical materials completed and on track for delivery, including 90% of power station materials collected and shipped.
- Process plant concrete is approximately 95% complete and power station concrete 32% complete.
- Structural steel and platework fabrication at 89% and 90% complete respectively, with 11 shipments of structural steel and four shipments of platework in transit to Kiniero. All fabrication is to be completed ahead of schedule.
- Field tank structures 64% completed. CIL Tank Train A is completed with CIL Tank Train B due for completion mid-July 2025.
- Preparation of Phase 1A of the tailings storage facility base is nearing completion, with 625,607m2 of 800,000m2 liner placed.
- Fuel supply contract was awarded and construction of the fuel storage facility commenced.
- Mill installation contract awarded, and the installation team is mobilising to site.
- Contracts for mining and drill and blast to be signed this month, with mobilisation commenced. ROM pad backfilling completed.
- Geotechnical drilling for a solar farm commenced.
QUEBEC CITY, June 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- West African gold producer and developer Robex Resources Inc (“Robex” or the “Company”) (ASX: RXR | TSX-V: RBX | OTC: RSRBF | Börse Frankfurt: RB4) is pleased to provide a June 2025 project construction update for its Kiniero Gold Project in Guinea, West Africa. Robex is on track to deliver first gold at Kiniero in Q4 2025.
Robex’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Matthew Wilcox said:
“Kiniero is moving closer to completion each month, and it is so pleasing to see this progress continue in a safe and methodical manner, maintaining our schedule to achieve first gold in Q4 2025. We’ve ordered everything we need for the project and deliveries of materials are arriving at site on a regular basis to ensure we continue to meet our targets. Design is complete and many aspects of the project build are underway or nearing completion.
Grade control drilling is progressing well and will provide us with important data for mine planning at Mansounia before we head to the Sabali pit to continue this work.
Having completed our Initial Public Offer to raise A$120 million, followed by our successful listing on the ASX earlier this month, we are renewed in our efforts to deliver Shareholder value through Kiniero and Nampala, and look forward to providing further updates on Kiniero’s progress as we get closer to pouring first gold.”
Kiniero Construction Activities
Construction at Kiniero continues to track well against the schedule, with the majority of concrete for the process plant completed. Three shipments of structural steel arrived on site, with progressive deliveries scheduled to arrive every two weeks. The SMP contractor has commenced structural steel erection of the milling building and pipe racks. The milling installation crew has commenced mobilisation to site with erection to begin mid-June 2025. The tailings dam construction is progressing well, with 78% of the phase 1A lining completed.
Next Steps
- Complete final two remaining major concrete pours within the process plant by end of June 2025.
- Complete Tailings Storage Dam phase 1A lining by end of June 2025.
- Commence mill installation works on site.
- Continue with erection of steelwork within the process plant.
- Commence overland piping installation.
- Commence grade control drilling of Sabali pit.
- Execute contracts for mining and drill and blast on customary terms for the nature of these services.
- Award the ore haulage contract.
- Award the laboratory and power station operation and maintenance contracts.
- Procure critical, operating and maintenance spares.
Robex remains very well positioned to advance the construction of Kiniero, which remains on schedule to realise first gold production by Q4 2025.
This announcement was approved by the Managing Director.
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