Canadian-based B2Gold announced first quarter results in line with expectations including a contribution from Otjikoto. The Company also announced a $350 million credit facility which will be used to repay the company's existing $200 million facility. The facility comes at a time when B2Gold is funding Fekola in Mali which is to pour its first gold bar in late 2017. Commercial production was declared in February at Otjikoto in Nambia and an expansion planned in September will result in increased production of approximately 200,000 ounces in the year after. The Fekola feasibility study will be released in June. Road construction began in February and this project should produce 300,000 ounces in the first year of production enabling B2Gold to produce almost one million ounces by 2018. Meanwhile production was better than expectations at B2Gold's Masbate mine, producing 46,000 ounces in the quarter. A long term mine plan at La Libertad is also expected.