When you hear good things from the MD /118 Jan 2026 10:04
During this short hiatus between news I wanted to re-share some illuminating comments from SD over recent meetings. This is what I heard SD say and they’re not quite verbatim, but as close as I could get.
There are some nuggets here !
Early 2025
Confident we can become a 10m+ oz company with Hav and Telfer combined.
Cash creation is all about making Telfer better.
(Question about AISC of 1450). We believe we can make cost savings. The focus is on growing the asset, not cost savings. Getting roadblocks out of the team’s way (will help to achieve that).
(Question about Cobalt). No, it is about gold-copper. Base metals are greater than copper, we want to unpack this. But these are processing points. Don’t misinterpret what I’m saying, Nickel is not the focus, or Cobalt.
The plans for Hav were ready in December 2023, but were kicked about. But we are going from first principles on Hav.
We can do 125,000 tons of stope on Hav. Northern Star would only have been 10,000. So this is about 13 x bigger (see the SRK report). This ore body wants to be mined more than 2.8m a year. We are looking at that in the next DFS.
Super exciting is WDD. A lot of good grade hits. This is now in play. They did not drive to it. Some of the best grade seen at Telfer in 20 years. Two
reefs at least, open at depth.
Camp Hill looks like a copper curtain but not explored. Migrated gold and copper gone to WDD and above.
O’Callaghans has even more copper than tungsten.
October 2025
Thinks West Dome could be bigger than Main Dome.
Could be 15m oz low grade.
Thinks Minyari has more than they think they’ve got.
ESC new discoveries found, prob 5g/t
Rey being drilled now (Oct 25) and hoping for results soon
Up to 4 targets at O’Callaghans, so not a one trick pony. They need to remove a lot of water, but there is another site of interest that is dry. Have identified where sulphur comes up, hoping these sulphides will contain 10g gold per ton.
Camp Dome has been drilled but no results. Have applied for more land.
Back Door has a 20,000 ounce amount discarded from the MRE but grades deemed to be worth going back for as grades are better than Hav.
December 2025
Telfer pays for Hav.
WDU a whole new quartile left to us untouched – the market missed this as the Hav DFS came out. This is an exceptional possible 2nd underground mine.
There is no need to mind the gap (to laughter from the audience).
We don’t think we need Minyari ore, we are happy with our own. (Notes from Editor: bearing in mind the ‘shimmy’ or ‘feint’ he did about Telfer not being worth looking at by others, does he use the same tactic here?)
$1.8b for Hav is a lot, but once this is spent it makes the numbers in future years therefore look very good.