RE: RNS21 Sep 2025 23:38
Jonnieboy, your actually way off the mark about what is economic and what isn't when talking about depth and its a long way off being a major deciding factor as you or anyone looking at this sort of Company should understand.
But depth is a factor which obviously the type of mining which dictates cost which obviously partly dictates if economic or not , but not the main factor - anyway, when calculating how depth effects costs when looking at fundamentals the industry uses the following in WA - Sublevel/ramping/caving US$50/t, Mechanised Narrow Vein - $US80/t, Mechanised Underground - 120US$/t or High Mech, high power ventilation etc @ $300 US/t. So those figures in theory would make it Economic with grades between 0.5-3 g/t.
There are obviously a lot more to it than that, not least location in regards to processing facilities (maybe Telfer,maybe not), financing costs etc etc.
Even if the drill assays eventually show grades above the notional underground cut-offs I mention above - Red Setter will only be economic if the orebody is large enough, continuous, metallurgically treatable, and can be mined and processed at a scale and cost that comfortably exceed the long-term gold price after royalties, tax and capital payback. Grade is necessary and depth has a cost impact obviously but resource size, metallurgy, infrastructure and permitting are probably more decisive.
For me all the signs are that this could be a huge discovery and game changer and anyone buying at those levels before Assays and drill updates are officially known could see the SP 10 or 20 bag from here (just my opinion though). But its not nailed on, there are still risks so not for Widows and Orphans as they say.
I also believe that WSBN would have had the main Cores put through NDT Photon Assay when they got to the lab with results within 24-72hrs. - so they would have had a good idea of the Gold (not Copper) content and Grades weeks ago - would they or could they still be communicating and retweeting (Stuff like Exoert Geo's tweet saying Major Discovery, gamechamger etc) if the Gold Grades weren't hugely positive. Maybe, but serious questions will be asked if that was the case.