SOUNDS LIKE 40m oz IS IN ADDITION TO 15m oz = 65M OZ29 Jan 2021 01:13
" Q7. So the company’s estimates are 15 million in the ground, at the moment?
That’s including the flanks, right. Exactly right.
Q8. Well your strategic adviser Alexei Churakov put out this number of 40moz how does that come about?
What Alexei meant, on the Kola Peninsula there have been a number of exploration taken place. So it’s not only us — it’s Anglo American that has been doing extensive exploration programme within a big chunk of land, WHICH WE ARE GRADUALLY GOING TO APPLY FOR. Also, there have been [Norilsk Nickel], as Imentioned, doing exploration. Then [Barrick] doing the exploration, again, on a big licence — a palladium licence. And some other players.
AND WE ARE LOOKING AT THOSE PROJECTS AS WELL, because as a mining company our main business is to produce the metal — which we are successfully doing — at our operating mine. So we’ve proved that we can do it, and we’ve done it before on a different project, our team members.
And then, basically, our second job is to continually increase in our resource base. AND WE ARE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS, AND WHAT ALEXIE MENTIONED WAS THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DEPOSITS WHICH ARE CLOSE TO OUR DEPOSIT WHICH IN TOTAL HAVE THIS «40 moz» SO THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT ''.