RE: Portfolio Matters on RMM3 Mar 2021 19:02
Hi Contrariwise, thats a great video (and thank you for the mention).
Just a couple of things: -
1. Tailings facility, a full tailings dam is not required, with tailings storage required being surfe/standby capacity only. The reason for this is that the duck pond mill includes a paste fill plant. The paste fill plant thickens the tailings to enable it to be placed underground (tailings dams are turning into a thing of the past after several high profile dam failures). If you look at duck pond on Google earth, tge mine had a modest 5000m2 dam, which would have mainly been used in the early days of operation before mined out stopes became available for backfilling. We already have lots of mined out areas for paste fill.
2. Ore sorting feasibility study - this is a pretty small study as the hard work was done a couple of years ago into the technical study if both XRT sorting and traditional DMS. So the feasibility study won't be much more than re running the financials.