In the recent report of the 2Q, 2025 Lucara Diamonds presented the 2025 Outlook. The outlook provides management’s production and cost estimates for 2025. These are forward-looking statements and subject to the cautionary note regarding the risks associated with such statements.
During Q2 2025, the Company mined and will continue to mine for the remainder of the year a higher proportion of M/PK(S) ore and less higher-grade EM/PK(S) ore than initially planned due to a difference in the location of the contact between the two kimberlites when compared to the geologic model used to set the initial 2025 guidance.
This results in lower EM/PK(S) milled tonnes which have historically produced higher volumes of larger, higher quality diamonds and decreases expected revenue for the remaining life of the open pit. The revised 2025 revenue guidance excludes the sale of the 2,488 carat Motswedi.
In 2025, the Company expects to mine between 1.8 and 2.2 million ore tonnes including waste. Mined ore will be processed in combination with stockpiled material in 2025. The assumptions for carats recovered and sold as well as the number of ore tonnes processed are consistent with achieved plant performance in recent years.
Stockpiled material (North, Centre, South Lobe) from working stockpiles and life-of-mine stockpiles should provide mill feed until 2027 when Under Ground Project [UGP] development ore is scheduled to start offsetting stockpiles with high-grade ore from the UGP. Full scale underground production is planned for H1 2028.
In 2025, capital costs for the UGP are expected to be up to $95 million, revised downward during the second quarter from the previous guidance of up to $115 million. The deferral of capital expenditures reflects strategic cash flow management and does not impact the ongoing operations or planned development activities of the UGP.
Expenditures in 2025 will focus predominantly on shaft sinking activities to final depth, equipping of the production shaft and station development. Surface works will focus on permanent winders being installed and cold commissioned. Tendering of the underground lateral development contract along with underground equipment purchases are also expected to be completed in 2025.
Sustaining capital is expected to be up to $13 million with a focus on the replacement and refurbishment of key asset components, in addition to expansion of the tailing’s storage facility and pit steepening activities which could extend the mine’s ability to extract South Lobe material from the pit in 2025.
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