VANCOUVER, BC --(Marketwired - March 17, 2015) - Endeavour Silver Corp. (TSX: EDR) (NYSE: EXK) (FRANKFURT: EJD) has initiated a major expansion of its El Cubo mine in Guanajuato state, Mexico. The Company plans to ramp up mine output over the next four months from 1,550 tonnes per day (tpd), the current El Cubo plant capacity, to 2,200 tpd.
The additional 650 tpd of mine production at El Cubo will come primarily from the V-Asunción mine area, which has thicker mineralized zones amenable to long hole mining, and the Santa Cecilia mine area, which has narrower but higher grade veins, and will be processed at Endeavour's Bolañitos plant, located 18 kilometres away in the same district, which has available capacity and comparable circuits to El Cubo. Production at Bolañitos will be reduced by a small amount to accommodate more processing of El Cubo ore.