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mineralisation was intersected over a 1.8km strike, at 250m There is no shortage of funding for the explorer with a $6
depth and is open in all directions. million cash balance which also allowed for drilling to start
“We’re very pleased that we’ve found some more high-grade at its Mt McClure project, south of Barwidgee.
results,” Hughes said. “We currently don’t have any resources, “We’re fortunately quite well funded,” Hughes said. “We’ve
but we’re going to undertake further exploration to expand been able to give the drilling companies quite reasonably
the footprint of that mineralisation and to large programmes.”
understand the geology a lot better.” The high-impact RC drilling at Mt McClure
Hughes said Yandal would be targeting is testing known mineralisation and
a resource from Sims after 18 months of Hughes is bullish on a proactive approach.
exploration and footprint expansion. “We’re looking forward to continuing our
“We’ve got a huge pipeline of prospects of aggressive exploration,” he said.
which Sims Find is currently a high priority, “We have excellent ground that’s close to
but we’re also in the business of exploration, very large deposits and has the potential
we are searching for very large deposits,” for very low discovery costs per ounce.
he said. “If we do happen upon some better That is in part because of the depth and in
results, on one of our reconnaissance part because we are following up known
programmes, then we’ll probably shift gold occurrences on ground that has
attention to those.” received very little follow-up exploration.
The company is preparing a drone magnetic “Typically, these are great places to be
survey over a 7km by 4km area to support hunting.”
further follow-up RC drilling. Yandal is
also confident that denser drill holes will
yield quality results and further high-grade
A nugget pulled from the Gordons project
intercepts.

Optimising Gold Extraction

Gold Distribution % Gold Occurrence Predictive Recoverability
Gold Deportment studies
define mineralisation style Liberated gold with gravity Gravity
Recoverable Leaching
• Economic estimation 54 recoverable grain size Gold Recoverable Fine Grind Flotation
Leaching
54%
Gold
• Flowsheet selection 69% Recoverable Recoverable
Gold
Gold
• Flowsheet optimisation 15 Other exposed gold minerals 80% 90%
• Plant survey 11 Gold locked in sulphide as inclusions
• Troubleshooting 10 Gold locked in sulphide as invisible gold
10
Gold locked in non-sulphide
Liberated Au Au attached to sulphide Au locked in sulphide Au mineralisation

20µm 30µm 20µm 0.1mm

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