Mark Child15 May 2018 11:26
From Mark to his email circulation list:
"Please see attached the Q1 2018 unaudited financial accounts and a summary contained in and RNS.
Condor owns a 100% of a high grade gold deposit, with a 2.4M oz gold resource, including a reserve, at a very advance stage of permitting, close to production within a major Gold District containing 5M oz gold plus. There is a scarcity of such assets.
The main focus in Q1 has been permitting.
26 February 2018, a 130 page amendment to its Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (�ESIA�) that, significantly, does not require the resettlement of approximately 330 houses occupied by 1,000 people was submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in Nicaragua. The ESIA is part of an Environmental Permit (�Environmental Permit� or �EP�) application to permit and construct a processing plant with capacity to process up to 2,800 tonnes per day of mineral ore. This amendment has been positively received by the Government.
13 March 2018 the �Inter-Institutional Committee� comprising of ten technicians from three Ministries: the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Energy and Mines and the Ministry of Forestry conducted a final site visit inspection of the re-designed mine site infrastructure, which avoids resettlement.
2 May 2018, the Chairman and senior management of the Company held a meeting with the Inter-Institutional Committee at the offices of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources to discuss additional information required by the Inter-Institutional Committee following their site visit inspection on March 13th, 2018. The Company intends to submit the technical information by May 31st, 2018.�
So despite the political unrest, I had a meeting 2 weeks ago with 2 Ministries to discuss the findings from their site inspection. We will submit the technical information by 31st May 2018. Assuming the technical information is okay and there are no further questions, the Project will be signed off as technically okay and goes to the Minister and President for approval. A date for a Public Consultation should be set and permits granted a couple of weeks later.
The risk is that the political situation delays the permitting process. A Dialogue table for mediation and finding a way forward is set for tomorrow. I don�t have a crystal ball, the situation is very tense. Talks could breakdown or go smoothly and a settlement reached.
The geologists are excited about the high grade rock chips and new discoveries. We continue to believe the current 2.4M oz gold resource can be doubled and La India Project hosts a 5M oz Gold District.
"Detailed geological mapping and vein characterisation continued along several veins, which included the collection of over 150 rock chip samples. On the America Vein Set, 24 rock chip samples returned gold values greater than 5.0g/t including