RE: Shaun's Denver Prez17 Sep 2025 23:49
Q - Sean, when do you think you'll get a better understanding of, you know, where these ore bodies at Telfer end? I mean, you've got that, you know, massive shaft that does 56 million tons a year, changes the economics of underground potential, West Home into West Home Underground. I mean, you'll be drilling for a while, but I imagine before you can really get to the bottom of where this stuff actually ends.
A - Yeah, it's a good question. I think when we look at that main dome underground, as I said, 30 years of underground mining still going, and we see new areas like the ESC just 50 m off development. And that we think is actually a substantial area. If you go down the bottom, you've got the vertical stock work, and you've got some of these higher grade, Ray and Kylo, areas as well. So, you know, it's a busy system, it's a big endowment. You're rewarded for drilling. And, you know, the, the analogy I'd use is Northern Star. We bought 6 assets off majors, 4 of them had a mine life of less than 12 months when we acquired them. All 6 of those are still in production a decade later. And that's very much what I see here is the opportunity at at Telfa, that West Dome underground, it's the same geological unit as you're seeing under Main Dome. So to have that as a brand new area, and the first time you drive into it, it's plus 4 g, beautiful big mining withs, long strike lengths. I don't think we could have had a better debut into that area, so that makes us really excited about what we see in that West Dome underground. And then you look at that schematic on West Dome. It's all mineralized, basically we just need to give it the time and the respect of drilling, and that's what we're doing in this in this push in FY 26.