RE: Are these reds buys ?12 Jul 2022 11:30
The grade is not an issue Brainspark.
- Despite the grade reducing the gold has not reduced, they have gold enough for a mine life > 10 years …
- The gold grade is an issue for mine ecomonics but they low grade is mined by open pit and processed by HL. Open pit and HL are low cost and were not utilised by the previous owners as they weren’t as capable gold miners as these guys and didn’t really know what they were doing.
In addition the previous work to determine the resource was from a handful of drills and 234 underground chip samples. Being underground you can be guaranteed those chip samples were from the gold veins and don’t give a good picture of what is in the hill in its entirety. It’s a very local and scewed sample, if you like. Now they have drilled from the surface (over 100 holes) they have full confidence in what is exactly in the hill and a more accurate and realistic model than previously assumed using those local chip samples.
No nasty surprises to come, they know what they have, how to mine it and how to process it.
Now for the higher grade areas (Maghor, Teng Teng, Vim/Rutha) can’t wait for those results as (relative to the hill) they are high grade.