Speaking to Mining Journal from the Denver Gold Forum at Colorado Springs, CEO Hannes Portmann said the operation was ramping up apace towards its nameplate capacity of 21,000 tonnes per day.

“We’re certainly off to a very good start, so I’m confident in our ability to hit commercial [production] in November,” he said.

Things weren’t so rosy back in January, when Toronto-based New Gold announced that production would be p...