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gnocci , lol, yes i know what it is , what i asked was when it is ? ;)

pin-nose, when's easter ?

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/41137/terranova-minerals-to-exploit-oxide-potential-at-3moz-manica-gold-project-49061.html

good to see you expanding the intellectual range of your posts kwakado .

As i understand it we only had 50% of eureka and we're in bed with kpz, the people who brought us kalengwa, i imagine these could be stumbling blocks, time will tell .

I have been practising my copy and paste skills and hitting the chocolate digestives again ;)

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Apparently there's a complimentary series being produced, " Turkeys for '23" , ;)

new picture posted on social media for manica , would it be to much to think there may be an announcement soon ?? 5 months since first pour . :)

yes andrew, definitely a mixed bag to look at going forwards . I see the end of alluvial production as a good thing giving further access to deeper rock , and would like to think the men and machinery will be re-deployed to either strike extensions at boa or increasing production at guy fawkes or even new excavations altogether, there's certainly plenty to go at .
I,m generally not one to moan too vocally but i do share the frustrations that have been posted recently because at the end of the day we're all left guessing with out some ( profanity ) results ! .

hi danni, The main points i was trying to get at was highlighting the differences in the processing methods being used between fairbride and the smaller operations .
The majority of the ore from fairbride will have to be exclusively run through the cil plant, this entails crushing the ore to a gravel mixture and then grinding that mixture to almost a powder in the ball-mill so that it can be mixed into a slurry and pumped around the plant through the various extraction processes . The size of the plant is self limiting to about 42k tons per month ish but will have quite a steady grade throughout its life.

On the other hand the smaller operations involve the extracted ore being crushed and processed through more traditional gravity recoverable methods, ie trommels, sluices, and shaker tables etc , with the end result being (hopefully) a gold rich concentrate which then goes off to be smelted .

The gold in the fairbride ore is very fine hence the grinding process , gold that is " quartz vein hosted" is a lot more co**** or nuggety, is often visible to the eye and can be followed visually and traced whilst mining . The ore grades in the smaller operations range from 0.5 gram per ton up to 20 grams per ton . This gold is referred to as "free milling gold". I did not mean to suggest that there is only one vein, there are probably hundreds but with hugely differing grades .

The other point i was alluding to was the number of different income streams , fairbride , the cill plant and the magical 100kgs , the alluvials , and at least two ( probably more) satellite deposits which were contracted to about 120 tons throughput per day each, and it was with these in mind that i feel optimistic about the 100 kgs target being achieved , though i am sure many will not share my outlook . Happy new year to all , x's where appropriate, ;).

Cygnus7, or in pinocchios case a black woodpecker event ! ;)

hi, no i didn't mean to imply a huge vein, thats not it at all . really busy at moment but will try later to put some links up, but definately NOT a huge vein . :)

hi dani and andy, there has been much said recently about the ability for xtr to achieve it,s goals for 80-100kgs per month. whilst dealing with my insomnia and a packet of chocolate digestives i have been giving this matter some thought and reading some older reports and rns,s . Much of the chat on the boards has been focused on empress, mmp and the cil plant and the assumption that all the ore has to go through the cil plant to achieve our 100kgs and how are mmp going to manage processing all that ore from the different parties involved . Now correct me if i,m wrong ,but on an older report it says that a lot of the ore from the satellite deposits is quartz vein hosted, ie free gold that doesn't have to be processed through the cil plant. boa esperanza, dots luck,guy fawkes and duque are mainly involved in producing gold concentrate which will be smelted separately from the fairbride ore and we then get our cut, which will be from 4 smaller deposits plus the alluvials and plus fairbride . I haven't gone through all the numbers but i am becoming increasingly more confident that the 100kgs could be exceeded when everything is up and running . Another little nugget i'll leave you with that i came across in the dfs for our licence, was 992,000 ounces for additional evaluation and exploitation. Its been a longer wait than most of us expected but i think 2023 is going to be a good year for Extract ! ( just need those results colin ) .

Dani, i,m glad you've been paying attention because Starsgroupsteve hasn't , lol , ;)

Everything you had to say about empress and manica " discrepancies " demonstrated how little you know about actual mining to me .

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steve, the only part of your post that has any relevance was the bit, " So I don't know to what extent it is still valid", there's not one bit of new information in your post for anyone that's been paying attention over the last few years, and understands the difference between the word's "Should" , "could" and "will".

tgdig, good to see you getting in the xmas spirit :)

As i understand it the importance of racecourse is not just the amount of copper in the mine but its signifying the first part of a porphyry district that could envelope the other prospects on the license.