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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-24-000588"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AUMN"
cik: "0001011509"
company_name: "Golden Minerals Co"
filed_at: "2024-01-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T16:20:54.229587+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Golden Minerals begins mining at Velardeña; targeting 325 tpd by end of Q1

## Summary
- Mining operations started December 18, 2023, in six stopes at the Velardeña Properties, Durango, Mexico.
- Daily production ramping to ~150 tonnes per day (tpd) in February, reaching ~325 tpd by end of Q1 2024.
- Company also produces gold-rich pyrite flotation concentrates from material stockpiled since 2015.
- Mining suspended in 2015 due to low metals prices and metallurgical challenges; restarted after evaluating new methods.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-24-000588
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AUMN
- cik: 0001011509
- company_name: Golden Minerals Co
- filed_at: 2024-01-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011509/000155837024000588/0001558370-24-000588-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011509/000155837024000588/aumn-20240123x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-24-000588.txt

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