RE: Notes from The Sunday Roast Podcast - 10 May 202211 May 2022 13:02
* More detail on why the Australian government wants to offer grants for these kinds of areas?
- In terms of support for the sector, Australia has a very meaningful mining component to its economy, exploration is the lifeblood of that to continue through target generation and discoveries to maintain sustainability of the sector
- In terms of where they want you to drill, it’s generally around new areas as you’re typically not going to get a grant to do a brownfield extension of an existing project
- It’s about new project generation, I think the government feels if they can sponsor those initial targets that once you tag something, then the market will fund the development
- Kind of putting the money forward for some encouragement and risk sharing and can potentially deliver substantial benefits
- And there are a number of programs, there is a limited scale tax deduction program for citizens on exploration that needs application and then you go to somewhere like Canada where exploration dollars are fully deductible through to the shareholder, don’t have a system in Australia that sympathetic so a little step towards support towards eth sector but not as generous as other places.
* Not to do with the specific area, more to do with exploration to support the mining sector?
- It’s both, you put in an application describing why it’s prospective and a genuine new opportunity
- These are competitive, not guaranteed so we’re really pleased at the outcome and the team did a really good job at describing and documenting the opportunity there
* How close is Rudall to Havieron?
- About 20km south of Hav so quite close
- On structure, so we like it, sometimes being on structure is more important than proximity and if you have both like Scallywag, that’s perfect
- This is a long structure, we like the area and high priority targets there and nice to get a drill pad on the ground
- Even by Australian standards the region is remote and large so the distance can be a bit misleading but it’s in that tenement package and something we like and enjoy and we want to keep that tenement.
* From a processing point of view, if there is Gold then you’ll be very close just as you were at Havieron.
- Again, would have thought that’s within a truckable distance to Telfer, slightly more to the South East while Hav is more due East but the radius of distance from Telfer is not dissimilar
- If you have a good discovery there, it’s near to infrastructure so you give yourself an additional opportunity
- When we target new tenements, we are mindful of trying to bring these online and the closer you are to infrastructure the higher the probability, or the lower threshold of success required to turn it into a an economically viable project.
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