{"id":135252,"date":"2026-07-19T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/135252\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:21:15","slug":"abcourts-sleeping-giant-awakens-with-record-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/135252\/","title":{"rendered":"Abcourt\u2019s Sleeping Giant awakens with record quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcourt.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abcourt Mines<\/a> (TSX-V:ABI) has reported record development at its Sleeping Giant Gold Mine in Qu\u00e9bec, Canada for Q4 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Processed ore increased 160% to 11,891 tonnes, compared with the previous quarter\u2019s 7,445 tonnes. June marked a historical peak with 5,229 tonnes milled.<\/p>\n<p>Gold production in Q4 amounted to 720 ounces produced, with 646 ounces poured. Annual cumulative production reached 3,628 ounces produced, including 2,647 ounces poured for the fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Underground mine development reached a record 554m in Q4, including 215m in June alone, compared with 307m in Q3.<\/p>\n<p>ABI describes this as a 180% increase in development activity.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond drilling totalled 11,059m during the quarter, a 155% increase compared with Q3. Gallery rehabilitation showed a 231% increase to 1,052m, compared with 455m in the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The average grade for the fiscal year stands at 4.18 grams per tonne gold (Au). The fourth quarter grade decreased to 2.10g\/t Au.<\/p>\n<p>The Q4 decrease reflects the processing of lower-grade development zones during the transitional expansion phase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fourth quarter demonstrates the success of our ramp-up phase at Sleeping Giant,\u201d CEO Pascal Hamelin says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite temporarily lower grades this quarter, due to mine plan sequencing, mill efficiency and daily throughput have reached new heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABI has commenced long-hole stope extraction, with the drill currently operating in the mine. The company notes that the rehabilitated galleries will help improve the number of available working faces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/?s=Abcourt+Mines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Abcourt Mines<\/a> is a Canadian <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/golds-quarter-from-safe-haven-to-new-discoveries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">gold<\/a> developer advancing the Sleeping Giant mine and the Flordin property in Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Abitibi region.<\/p>\n<p>Write to <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/abcourts-sleeping-giant-awakens-with-record-quarter\/mailto:jc.villarba@mining.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">JC Villarba<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mining.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images: Abcourt Mines<\/p>\n<p>Add to Watch List:Gold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abcourt Mines (TSX-V:ABI) has reported record development at its Sleeping Giant Gold Mine in Qu\u00e9bec, Canada for Q4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,1632,45155,19263,38490,1449,241],"class_list":["post-135252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-gold","tag-gold-production","tag-mine","tag-processing","tag-production","tag-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}