Eldorado Gold Corporation (Eldorado) operates a gold and base metals mining, development, and exploration company.
Eldorado’s strategy is to focus on jurisdictions that offer the potential for long-term growth and access to high-quality assets. Fundamental to executing this strategy is the strength of the company’s in-country teams and relationships with affected parties. The company has mining operations, ongoing development projects and exploration in Turkiye, Canada, and Greece.
Eldorado’s...
Eldorado Gold Corporation (Eldorado) operates a gold and base metals mining, development, and exploration company.
Eldorado’s strategy is to focus on jurisdictions that offer the potential for long-term growth and access to high-quality assets. Fundamental to executing this strategy is the strength of the company’s in-country teams and relationships with affected parties. The company has mining operations, ongoing development projects and exploration in Turkiye, Canada, and Greece.
Eldorado’s focus is on the production of gold and base metals such as silver, lead and zinc. In addition, the company is advancing a copper-gold development project. Its activities involve all facets of the mining industry, including exploration, discovery, acquisition, financing, development, production, reclamation and operation of mining properties. Eldorado Gold is governed by the Canada Business Corporations Act (‘CBCA’).
Mining and Processing
During production, the company’s operations team and site personnel are responsible for mining and extracting ore from its underground mines (Efemçukuru, Olympias and the Lamaque Complex) and the company’s open pit mine (Kisladag), as well as exploring for new Mineral Resources to expand production and mine life. The ore is processed on-site to produce concentrates or dore.
Sales of Mineral Products
The company produces gold dore, as well as gold, silver, lead and zinc contained in concentrates. The company’s in-country marketing teams are responsible for finding downstream smelters and refineries and establishing long-term working relationships and purchase agreements. These agreements outline the terms and conditions of payment for the company’s products, and specify parameters and penalties for the quantity, quality and chemical composition of its dore and concentrate. Gold dore produced at the Lamaque Complex is sold to local refineries in Ontario. Contracts are also in place for the sale of concentrates from Greece and Türkiye. These include gold concentrates from Efemçukuru and Olympias, as well as lead/silver and zinc concentrates from Olympias.
Material Properties
Kisladag
The Kisladag gold mine is an operating open pit mine in commercial production since 2006, with surface facilities consisting of a crushing plant, heap leach pads, and adsorption, desorption, regeneration (‘ADR’) plants, along with ancillary buildings.
The Kisladag Project land position consists of a single operating license, number 85995, with a total area of 17,192 ha. The license was issued on April 9, 2003, renewed on May 10, 2012, and is set to expire on May 10, 2032.
Efemçukuru
The Efemçukuru mine is an operating underground mine in commercial production since 2011. The mine is located near the village of Efemçukuru in the Izmir province in western Türkiye. The Efemçukuru mine land position consists of a single operating license (number 51792) with a total area of 2261.49 ha. The license was issued on April 20, 1999, and renewed on August 19, 2013; it is set to expire on August 19, 2033.
Mining licenses in Türkiye are divided into five groups. The Efemçukuru mine operating license belongs to group 4, which includes gold, silver, and platinum mines. The Efemçukuru operation is an underground mine with facilities consisting of an underground crushing plant, milling and flotation plant, filtration and paste backfill plant, water treatment plant, and ancillary buildings.
Olympias
Olympias is located within the Kassandra Mines complex located on the Halkidiki Peninsula of Northern Greece. The property consists of mining concession numbers F13 and F14, which has a combined area of 47.27 km2. Hellas Gold has been granted mining rights over these concessions until March 6, 2026. Hellas Gold has ownership of a small portion of private land within the concessions. The Investment Agreement became legally effective on March 23, 2021, following ratification by the Hellenic Parliament and publication in the Greek Government Gazette. The Investment Agreement is governed by Greek law. Its initial term continues to 2051 and may be extended by an additional 25 years subject to certain conditions. The Olympias mine is an underground mining operation extracting ore from three main zones: East, West and Flats; the Remnants are a sub-zone of the West Zone. The Olympias plant produces three concentrates: an arsenopyrite / pyrite concentrate containing gold, a lead concentrate that also contains silver and gold, and a zinc concentrate that also contains gold.
Skouries
The property is located within the Kassandra Mines complex, located on the Halkidiki Peninsula of northern Greece. The properties within the complex include the Olympias mine in production, the Stratoni mine on care and maintenance, and the Skouries copper-gold porphyry deposit under development.
The Skouries Project is a copper-gold porphyry deposit to be mined using a combination of conventional open pit and underground mining techniques. The property consists of concession numbers OP03, OP04, OP20, OP38, OP39, OP40, OP48, and OP57, which has a combined area of 55.1 km2. Hellas Gold has been granted mining rights over these concessions until March 6, 2026. The Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for the Kassandra Mines includes an area of 26,400 hectares (ha), in northeastern Halkidiki (Macedonia Region). The Skouries Project covers approximately 250 ha of the Kassandra Mines complex.
Lamaque Complex
The company is referring to specific assets within the Eldorado Quebec portfolio as the Lamaque Complex. The Lamaque Complex (as previously defined), includes the Triangle Mine (Upper and Lower), the Ormaque Deposit, the Parallel Deposit, the Plug No. 4 Deposit, the Sigma mill, the Sigma tailings storage facilities (Sigma TSF), the historic Lamaque tailings storage facilities, surface and underground infrastructure from the historic Sigma mine, and underground infrastructure from the historic Lamaque mine.
The Lamaque Complex is situated near the city of Val-d’Or in the province of Quebec, Canada, approximately 550 km northwest of Montreal. The Lamaque Complex is in the Val-d’Or district of the eastern Abitibi Greenstone Belt within the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield.
In 2025, Lamaque is expected to mine and process approximately 950,000 to 1,000,000 tonnes of ore. The Lamaque Complex includes significant fixed infrastructure in place at the Triangle deposit and the Sigma mill. The Lamaque Complex operations include a diverse fleet of owner operated underground mining equipment including underground haulage trucks ranging from 30-tonne to 45-tonne underground loaders ranging in size from 3.1 to 7.6 m3, development jumbos, production drills, mechanized bolters, and support equipment, such as scissor lifts, personnel carriers, backhoes, boomtrucks, explosive loaders and others. One 50-tonne electric (BEV) Sandvik truck was put into use in 2023 and a second in 2024. In 2025, Lamaque is expected to mine and process approximately 950,000 to 1,000,000 tonnes of ore at an average gold grade of 5.5 to 6.2 grams per tonne.
Non-Material Properties
Perama Hill
Perama Hill and Perama South, located 1.5 km southeast of Perama Hill, are epithermal gold-silver deposits located in the Thrace region of northern Greece.
Sapes Project
The Sapes project is located approximately 2 km east of the village of Sapes in northeastern Greece and is 14 km northeast from the Perama Hill project. Sapes was acquired in 2014 through Eldorado Gold’s acquisition of Glory Resources Ltd.
Stratoni
Stratoni, an underground, silver-lead-zinc mine which includes the underground mine of Mavres Petres and the Stratoni facility, is in the Halkidiki Peninsula in northern Greece. As of December 13, 2021, Mavres Petres mine, which is part of the Stratoni project, was placed under care and maintenance with the workforce being re-distributed to other operations of Hellas Gold. In 2024, exploration drilling was conducted to the east of Mavres Petres at the Stratoni Skarn target. Eldorado plans to evaluate those results and may follow up with drilling on an additional target in 2025.
Certej
The Certej project (the ‘Certej Project’) is in the southern part of the Apuseni Mountains in central Romania, approximately 12 kilometres north-east of the town of Deva.
Bourlamaque
The Bourlamaque property covers approximately 20,000 hectares in Quebec contiguous to the property, where the Lamaque Complex is located. Eldorado advanced desktop data reviews and compilations toward defining future drill targets.
History
The company was incorporated in 1996. The company was formerly known as Eldorado Corporation Ltd. and changed its name to Eldorado Gold Corporation in 1996.