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market earlier this with Predictive’s progress over the past
year for $26.5 15 months in particular but remains wary
million and now of the company becoming “starstruck”
appears to have before the main goal of delineating an
more than enough economic project is achieved.
funds to complete “There’s a lot of work to be done, it’s
all required drilling got to be done to a high standard and so
and exploration for every step along the way is being done
the project. with credible partners,” he said. “That’s
Having spent why we’re working with CSA [Global Pty
most of the last Ltd] on the resource estimate and why
decade scouring Mintrex [Pty Ltd] is guiding us on the met-
parts of Burki- allurgical test work.
na Faso, Cote “We’re embarking now on the baseline
d’Ivoire and Mali social and environmental studies be-
for the right explo- cause there’s an awful lot of boxes still
ration assets, Pre- to tick. We want to go fast, but we want
dictive eventually to do it well and we want to spend the
settled in Guinea money wisely.
Predictive managing director Paul Roberts (left) on site in Guinea in 2019 and has “My preoccupation is not spending too
early last year not looked back much time pinching myself, it’s mostly
since. The com- about doing the job properly. All mining
pany emerged as projects have many risk factors which
Infill drilling to upgrade parts of the up- a West African need to be addressed and you’ve got to
coming resource into indicated status is gold explorer to watch in April last year do all of them well because one of them
also expected within the next 12 months on the back of an impressive drill hit that can bring you seriously undone.”
and will pave the way for the early scop- triggered the largest single-day share – Michael Washbourne
ing study work, which has no defined price jump by an ASX-listed resources
timeline at this stage. company in the three years prior.
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