Welcome to Matty’s (Underground) World

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Right now, money mortars, Jesus
Christ, gold is going off it's

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head of bed.
Just it's been amazing.

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I've been on the find of brokers
and everything flat out today

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and we've finally got to the
episode now the market's closed,

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but you gotta get in early with
these gold companies.

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So mate, she's all go and we're
JC on the back of your

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sensational, unrequested from
yourself life of Valley GC in

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the world of corporate finance.
Yes.

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Why not continue this trend and
do apparently there is some

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stuff about underground mining,
et cetera that you would like to

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know?
There is no so we're gonna

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return the favour.
I'm gonna reverse Uno you and

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and I've got some questions
about underground mining, which

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you know, I've hear you're like
you've said and a few like the

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people we've had on the show to
interview.

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And and it's sort of, I kind of
get it, but then also a lot of

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it goes over my head and I
imagine a lot of other money

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miners are in the same position.
So I would love to just get back

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to basics and just to understand
actually what you used to do.

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But then some of your expertise
that can help people read

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between the lines or get in the
weeds a little bit when sort of

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reading through company
announcements, things like that

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as well.
Oh mate, in the and look, I'm

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happy to assist and in the true
honour of an underground

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episode, it's brought to you by
Quattro project engineering, the

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people that have invented most
of the shit underground, the

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mobile elevated work platform,
the the fancy ones, the the

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pasta version valves, the
friggin the fan hanging systems

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and have a look at this fly over
JC.

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They even do bloody paste
plants.

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Look at the lake cat, the lake
cow paste plant like wow,

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absolute picture of beauty and
mate, it's a holiday.

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You can go on and get paid for
it 'cause you could get paid for

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it as a Quattro employee.
So if you love building shit,

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designing shit and you're not a
Dick head and you would like to

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work for Quattro, right, Careers
at Quattro, hit them up.

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Hit them up like absolute bunch
of GCS run by Jeremy Palmer.

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Just absolute legends.
Who wouldn't want to work with

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them?
So, and we'll do a rapid fire of

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news at the end.
Bit of bloody well mate.

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I'm pumped up about gold at the
moment.

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This could be the.
Starting to sound like me.

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This could be the I think if you
take a couple of zeros off the

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market caps that you invest in,
that's where my focus is at the

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moment.
Oh, Jason.

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Oh, we'll.
Get to that.

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So we're gonna go.
Cheers to the.

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Last, the last bloody.
See Maddie, Michael, JV Oh, no,

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they're very.
Cute.

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Oh, Speaking of bloody, yeah.
Speaking of what would you say

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it's been a bit of a farming JV,
right?

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I'm just thinking of gold at the
moment, yeah.

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It's been great fun, so I've.
Had I've had a bloody belter.

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It's been cool.
Haven't been judged for anything

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I said.
It's fucking.

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Great.
Oh, so let's let's get into it.

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So we wanna go wanna go
underground with you, Maddie.

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So now you your old job, you're
now, I know you actually were a

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mining engineer to to start with
and then move to a jumbo

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operator.
I was told that my decorum would

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be more suited to the
underground environment.

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Politely.
Politely, I love it.

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Apparently dropping C bombs in
the office wasn't cool and

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punching computer screens wasn't
allowed.

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I say so a a jumbo operator, a a
jumbo, what actually is it?

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What and what is the purpose of
it in an underground?

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Mine.
Oh.

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So even after all this time,
it's still a bit confusing what

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I'm trying.
To get the oh, I, I kind of, I

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kind of understand, but just if
we go back to basics, tell us

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what is a jumbo?
What is the purpose of it in an

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underground mine?
Well.

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Why?
Why Lucky?

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There's some there's some videos
that look, mate, can't say, oh,

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I took them because you're not
allowed to take videos.

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Some of them might have, but
there's jumbo think horizontal

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then like development, you think
horizontal production, you think

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vertically.
That's the best way to explain

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it.
So like, think of this bloody

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iPad as the as the ore body just
sitting there.

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It's just this big vertical
thing that's underground and

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like you've got to the jump.
The purpose of the Jumbo is to

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develop all the drives, the
tunnels that are going

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horizontal and then you decline
it gets you deeper.

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And then when they talk
production, that's when you you

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get the rigs in to drill all the
vertical holes to, you know,

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excavate in between the tunnels
vertically.

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So that's that's so the purpose
of jumbo is development and it

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does 3 bloody does a heap of
things like the main things are

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scaling, bolting and boring.
So why not bloody take you?

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I've got a I've got a picture of
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There's a bloody a Sandvik, one
of the new flash Sandvik jumbos,

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twin boom jumbos.
This is one picture looking out

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of the cab bloody.
There's your That's your two

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booms.
Those are the two arms.

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Yeah, and that's like that's in
an all drive at the moment, what

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you call, you know, but you
think of it as a tunnel, but

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they're called drives or
headings, OK.

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And that's the the end of it.
So and that's all your ground

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support on the they call it the
backs, the walls and the backs.

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What the top is called the
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Fun fact, it's because when the
draw, it was real small back in

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the day and you'd like crawl
through like just to fit a

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person in like your back was
touching the top.

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So that was called the back.
Oh.

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OK.
And then the front was the face

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because your face was hitting
the front.

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And then obviously then you got
your walls and down the bottom.

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So if you're standing like
you're the bottom, if you leave

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a lump on the floor, it's called
a toe because that's where your

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toes were.
There you go.

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And then the row, the row of
holes you drill just up, about

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just up above the floor were
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That's where your knees were so.
Very, very literal.

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And then and then bore the
middle outs, the guts the

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because you yeah.
So that that's all that

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terminologies like from back in
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So and.
Then so.

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Those and so the jumbo does all
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So the jumbo like puts the
ground support up, bores all the

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holes in the face, which you can
see here.

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Here's a development face and
you can see all those holes that

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are put in it.
That's what the explosives go

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into to take a, you know, 3 1/2
to 4 1/2 metre chunk out, blow

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it up.
And then you gotta put the

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ground sport in and you that's
how you advance the underground.

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So I'll show you.
This like for example, like

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you'll use those booms, those
arms to put the holes into the

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face.
Well, let let me explosives go

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in there.
Mate, I haven't.

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I got some stuff for you, JC.
Let's have a look.

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Bloody.
Yeah, for as I said, they do

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scaling.
That's one thing.

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This is the argument between
bloody North America and

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Australia.
Well, they have bolting rigs and

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then scaling rigs.
And whereas in Australia the

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whole thing about a jumbo, here
you have a jumbo that can do

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everything and an and an
operator that can do everything.

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So this is an example of a jumbo
scaling, so you can see it

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bloody just pretty much drilling
holes into the newly excavated

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rock to drop all the loose shit
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So that's like how you get all
'cause that loose stuff will

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fall on someone's head otherwise
or it'll bag up behind the mesh.

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So you tap it and with the
drill, with all the percussion

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and force behind.
It.

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And that's it.
And that's how you, and then

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that's you use that to actually
scale the face in front of you

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to get all the loose shit off
before you bore the holes in it

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so it doesn't all fall on the
frigging ground.

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So you scale, then you put
ground support, and then you you

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start to bore holes.
So here's an example of the OK,

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putting the ground support up.
So that's, you know, you use one

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boom to lift the mesh up and
then you jam it in and you

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rotate it into position and then
you use the other boom to, you

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know, start drilling a hole.
And so it's all like a big time

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in motion exercise.
So you know, when you're

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learning it, it's the freaking
hardest thing in the world.

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And then, you know, you start
getting all right at it, but

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then after, you know, 6 to 10
years, you start really

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perfecting the perfecting the
art of it.

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And that's why, you know, these
people get bloody paid so much

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to do it 'cause once you get
really good at it, which is.

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Just move.
Quickly.

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Well like it's like once I had
six years on it so it took me 5

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years to figure out bloody slow
down and stop on trying to be a

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bloody cowboy and a hero.
So I had a good last year you'd

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say I was friggin pain in the
ass for the 1st 5 on it.

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But then like if I if I stayed
on it from that point I would

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have started refining everything
and got like shaving seconds off

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every process and start really
getting a lot.

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Getting your straps, Yeah.
Really getting a lot done with

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like what the real experienced
and switched on followers do.

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I didn't really get to that get
to that level as much as I

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probably thought I did at the
time.

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So that's the that's the bolting
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And then then if you look at the
the boring side.

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So this is a speed up version or
found.

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So that's both booms.
Just drill and holes into the

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face in a pattern to to blast it
out effectively.

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And you'll like drills the
perimeter, which drills the

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shape of it.
And you've got to have your boom

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angled correctly and going in
the right direction to match

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what the actual survey direction
of the drive is and the height

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and the width.
And then at the end there you'll

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see them drill like it's called
a burn.

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They'll drill a closed in
pattern and put these rimas in

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with which are the initial void.
And then so chart the shop fires

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come in, fill it with explosives
and bloody sequence it so it

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starts from the middle and fires
into the void and then makes the

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void bigger and keeps going till
you've excavated this whole

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thing.
So it's the technical side of it

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is trying to get the angles
right and trying to, you know,

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keep everything neat and tidy
and and flowing.

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But then you if you have
multiple jumbos, you got

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multiple operators with
different experience levels and

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the jumbo is the first is the
thing that the whole mine

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development follows and 'cause.
You're literally at the

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coalface.
Cause the jump, you're the

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jumbo's doing all that until
that Jumbo's finished boring the

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holes charge up.
Can't get in there to charge it

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until that.
Is when you say charging.

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Shot fire, Explosives.
Explosives.

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Yeah, yeah.
And it's and, and until the till

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the it's been blasted the bogger
like the bloody thing with the

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bucket on the front that can't
bog the dirt.

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So and yeah.
And so then the jumbo can't get

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back in till the spot till the
bog is finished.

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And like the whole and it's all
that's how when we talk about,

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you know, trying to Bellevue and
Kathleen Valley and that trying

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to target 300 odd metres per
month per jumbo.

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That number is dictated on how
efficient that operator is on

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the jumbo and every piece of
machinery in person around them

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trying to work for a 12 hour
shift twice a day everyday and

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all the management behind it to
keep that whole process flowing

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month on month to try and
achieve those metrics.

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So it's like we look at a number
on a quarterly at what it is

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just like it's a simple number.
But what goes into making that

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happen like the service crew
that provide all the the

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ventilation and the water to
keep the jumbo going, the the

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sparkies that have to provide
the power to the jumbo and keep

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extending because as the mine
grows, like you have to keep

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extending it and like the pumps.
Are jumbo powered. 1000 Volt

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electricity.
So you drive it around on diesel

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and then all the power that's on
the surface like whether it's

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usually diesel generators or gas
fired bloody power station with

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renewable backup, like all that
is fed via 11 KV bloody

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electrical cables underground
and then distributed into drop

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down to goes into like
substations which drop it down

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to the 1000 Volt.
And then that 1000 Volt power is

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in like orange cables
distributed all through the mine

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to a jumbo box.
And then you'll have an extent

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could have an extension cable
coming out and that's what the

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jumbo plugs into.
It's called the Macy plug and

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that that is how so yeah.
So we're powered on 240 Volt in

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this office.
Jumbos are powered on one,

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everything underground is
powered on 1000 volts.

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Wow.
So that's and he might then they

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can do like like cable bolts,
for instance, like you can use a

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jumbo to normally it only drills
a you know, a three 2 1/2 meter

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hole or whatever for your or
2.8m hole for your bolting when

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you're bolting.
Or you can open it up to drill a

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four and a half metre hole for
boring.

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You have the longer jumbos like
they can drill 6 metre holes in

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one go.
Like yeah, right, fix boring

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things.
But you can actually like drill

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cable bolt holes with them, like
use them as a production rig and

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I'll show you, I'll show you.
Bloody is a bloody cool.

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Whoever whoever doing was doing
this was a bloody bit of a Mad

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Dog.
Don't know it was, but like you

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can actually, you can actually,
you know, drill 6m holes, like

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3M hole twice with a jumbo and
attach a second rod onto it.

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And that's how they drill the
intersection cables.

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So it's like a 6m hole.
And this one here they're

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actually using the one boom to
drill through the other boom and

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then like swapping the rod.
So you'll see it here, the pace

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it normally goes, I've speed it
up just to shout and then you

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can, yeah.
So they're like, you can do so

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many funky things with them.
And yeah.

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They're quite multi purposes.
You sort of got one bit of kit,

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or what would you call it, kit
or is it a machine?

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No, it's just a big bloody yeah,
it's a machine.

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It is a.
That does.

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Machine worth a couple
$1,000,000.

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Yeah, just just essentially does
the development side of it.

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But then, like you say, you've
got other service providers and,

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and machines and kit sort of OK,
you do this place and the next

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person's got to go and then the
following person comes after

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then and then it cycles again
and again.

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But just to have that, that
rhythm and everything to be

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going right and on time and all
that.

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It's, there's a lot of, I guess
probably what I didn't

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appreciate is how many it's not
just say you and a jumbo going

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boom, boom, and then it's all
good.

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Like there's so many variables
that all have to be going right

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and all at the correct time to
keep that flow.

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Going well you need you need the
jumbo to do all that you need

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the bogger to bog the dirt.
You need the chart shop fires to

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blow it up.
You need the bogger to bog the

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dirt out.
You need the bogger to put the

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dirt into a truck.
So the truck takes that to the

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surface and then you need a
service crew that is sorting out

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your water, your power, your
ventilation infrastructure keep

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that all going and that is just
for development.

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That is that doesn't say when I
talk about production, I

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actually found be rude not to
show a Sambic production rig.

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This was a public video, but
that's what a that's a

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production rig.
So it's like, think of a jumbo,

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but it's all drilling big, long,
longer holes, fatter and they're

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all vertical and sideways and
they're the holes that are used

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to take that all the ore out
between the levels, which are

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like, you know, the levels, the
jumbo levels could be, you know,

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20 metres apart or 25 or 15.
These rigs come in all shapes

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and sizes and they drill the
pattern out to excavate the ore.

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So all this development and
decline and infrastructure and

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all that, that is all there for
the purpose to potentially take

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out just this frigging gold vine
and or hopefully there's

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multiple Gulf veins on one
level.

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And so that is the difference
between development and

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production.
So then so say you've developed

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a level of the like a, like a
tunnel basically.

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So you've developed, you know,
one here, 1 below it.

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And then once you've finished
the development with a with a

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Jumbo, then this production rig
comes in and starts going

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vertically to excavate the the
ore.

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Yeah, it no, it just, it just
drills holes vertically and then

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the shop fires fill them up with
explosives as well.

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And that's how they blast out
the production.

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But like for a level, you know,
you'll you'll come in, there'll

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be the access to get in there.
Then there'll be a stockpile to

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put all the dirt.
Then you need an escape way.

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So you've got egress out to go
up and down.

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If there's a fire, then you've
got could be a refuge chamber

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Cuddy, then you've got could be
some area for power or and then

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you then you actually get into
the the jump light level.

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So when you talk about a level,
there's a lot of little, you

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know, cuddies everywhere for
that serve a purpose for each

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part of that cycle because you
can't get the dirt out if you

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don't have a stock ball to put a
dirt, put the dirt.

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You can't load the truck if you
haven't lifted the height of the

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backs for the bogger to lift the
bucket up to tip the dirt into

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the truck.
Like there's all and that's,

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that's what engineers do.
And to design it all.

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And usually the then the
foreman's and everything, you'll

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yell at the engineers.
They're like, you didn't fucking

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do this right.
You bloody engineers don't know

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how to fucking mind 'cause it's,
yeah.

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So it's, oh, it's such good.
So many good personalities up

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there.
Friggin love it.

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And then so, and this is the
sort of imagine development and

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stopping ore.
So development ore ore sort of

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refers to the rock that's
getting taken out when the

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jumbo's going through and the
stopping ore is sort of post the

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production rig and the
explosives going in up

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vertically that all that drops
out is stopping ore.

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Yeah, well, you think of say
there's levels 2020 metres

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apart.
And so the the development ore

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is just when, yeah, the jumbo
excavates the tunnel through the

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ore because you can't, the
production rig can't get in

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there to drill the holes through
the ore body without the jumbo

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creating the tunnel for it.
To get in.

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There, So yeah, development ore
you're taking out, you know, 5

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metres worth and then there's 20
metres of or above it till the

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next level.
So it takes a lot longer to

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develop that the five meter
chunk, whereas when you blow the

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whole thing up, you've just got
a shit load of dirt to bog.

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So that's what they talk about
and and that you can excavate it

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skinnier because you don't have
to put ground sport, no one's

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allowed up in there like you
can't.

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Just gravity, right?
All the.

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Rocks.
Well, no, you can't like you

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Yeah, well you don't the jump.
These are 5 meters wide to for a

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purpose like you've got a
because you're restricted by or

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foot they 4 1/2.
You can get 2 with these twin

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boom jumbos.
You can't get them really much

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smaller because you can't fit
the jumbo booms in there and you

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and everything.
So.

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But when you mine a narrow vine,
like they could mine in it like

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2 1/2 meters wide.
So your development ore is 5

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meters wide.
But if you got gold in the

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middle, that means you got all
that waste on the outside.

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So.
Whereas when you mine it 2 1/2

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meters wide and hopefully just
get the vine, that means you

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your grade of that is a lot
higher.

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So you're stopping ore is higher
grade because you haven't taken

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out as much width.
That's this is for narrow van

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gold mining, but so that but and
you get a lot more of it.

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So that's why they talk about
you want you don't want to be

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just tracking all the
development or up and not

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focusing on the stopping or
because the stopping or there's

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more of it and it's higher
grade.

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So.
Because you're targeting it.

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Well, it's more targeted I
guess, because you're aiming for

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the the ore that.
Oh, that, but the jumbo

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development goes straight
through the ore.

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MMM 'cause that's where that
gives you the The jumbo

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development is purely for
access.

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Yeah, for the machinery to the
end goal is taking that stop

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out.
Stop out.

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That is, everything that goes on
is purely for that goal.

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That's what some places you
forget, 'cause the jumbo's or

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the might have been incentivized
by doing more development

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because I get paid more for it.
And the focus, there was always,

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always that culture of like you
can't stop the jumbo.

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But if the focus goes off
production too much, yeah, the

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primary purpose is getting the
production or out to feed the

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mill to all gold or float copper
or so you could actually make

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money.
OK.

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Because that was something I
was, I kind of understood.

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But now that makes a lot more
sense.

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And why?
Yeah, you often say, yeah,

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you're stopping all higher than
your or ideally higher than your

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development.
All should be unless it the

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hanging wall falls in and
dilutes it and you've got a heap

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of waste mixed in it and you've
got to bog it out anyway.

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Yeah, that's and that we can
talk about later the dip and

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foot wall and angles and
recovery and.

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All that, all that.
You just bloody ask me whatever

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you want to say.
No.

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So sort of moving on from that a
little bit, how do you look at

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an ore body and the mind design
and trying to see if you can,

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you know, hit all the targets or
not?

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Yeah.
So you got to think of how much

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when they talk about a 1,000,000
tonne per annum operation,

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that's 1,000,000 tonne of ore.
So if you've got add to grosser

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for instance, that was, you know
big, it's like AVMS deposit.

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So it was like a big, big chunk
of copper and it was like, you

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know, 2030 meters thick.
And on one level it would be,

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you know, 100 and oh, it was 100
odd hundred 200 meters long.

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So you you've got these.
So a stoke there is like 20 by

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20 at the bottom.
And you know, it could be 50 or

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60 meters high.
Like it's a big thick chunk of

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ore.
And so you can, there's hyper

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dirt to bog and yeah, you know,
you can spend a month or so

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bogging it till you finish.
And a stoke might be 100 odd,

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1000 tons.
Whereas you go to a narrow vein

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gold mine, you've got, there's
one vein and you're like might,

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you know, stoke might be 5000
ton or 10,000 ton.

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So because you're doing these
narrow veins, so you think of

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how many Stokes you've got a
mine that are 510 thousand ton

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to get 1,000,000 tonne.
And every time you finish a

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stoke, you've got to either
leave a pillar or backfill it

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and then drill the next one and
like that cycle continues.

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So you've to get a.
Pillar A pillar is.

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Oh, so it's like, say in that
you can't just take the whole

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chunk of ore out because it'll
just, it'll just fall in because

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it's like too much of A
hydraulic radius exposure and

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it'll just start caving in and
likely.

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And then it'll dilute your ore
and could just keep flowing

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down.
Like as soon as you open up the

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levels below it, the Stokes
below it, all that dirt falls

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down.
And you, you know, yeah, your 6g

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dirt rapidly becomes 4G.
Yeah.

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So that, so you leave, you might
mind 203040 meters, like 40

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meters.
If it's good ground then you'll

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stop.
You'll leave a chunk of rock

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which is ore.
It's called a pillar, and then

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you restart the process so that
pillar supports.

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It's your support.
Supports the hanging wall and

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hopefully stops it from falling
in the more you expose it.

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And the hanging wall is
basically what's above you.

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Hanging.
So you think of a vertical, dead

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vertical start.
There isn't really a hanging

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wall because it's all vertical.
If it rolls over that way, if

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it's dipping at 80°, that's your
hanging wall, That's your foot

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wall.
And then so all bodies do that.

446
00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:19,520
Yeah.
Are they either they're either

447
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,400
vertical or bloody dead flat.
Yeah, they're not like a coal

448
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,880
seams dead flat, but they're
usually mixtures between, you

449
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,840
know, 20-30 degrees all.
The way up to. 90° So when they

450
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,640
call it sub vertical, it means
it's pretty bloody close to

451
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,640
vertical.
So what's some examples?

452
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,880
I think oh, like Daisy Milano
when I was there, perfectly

453
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,720
vertical, most of it, a lot of
it was pretty much dead

454
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,560
vertical.
I think Aurabanda looks pretty

455
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,320
vertical.
You know, Bellevue looks like it

456
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,720
varies.
It's somewhere close to

457
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,840
vertical.
Then they lay over a bit like

458
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,360
Spartan looks to be about 60-70
degrees.

459
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,440
So whereas and then you go to
Gualia, places like, you know,

460
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,640
around that Leonora area, Gualia
that dips at 40°.

461
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:12,600
So it's really laid over.
So the issues should come into

462
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:18,080
there is dead vertical in hard
ground ideal.

463
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,600
So you can't really have nothing
will hopefully naturally fall in

464
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,880
because it's vertical.
But you can't have air mines

465
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:31,240
that are dead vertical with real
laminated laminated ground that

466
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,520
can sort of peel in and dilute
which is I think there's a

467
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,560
restart project coming up that
has that sort of ground

468
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,600
historically.
I'm not like if it's sure that

469
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:46,280
if it's like that going forward,
but then if it then if it's

470
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,480
lying over at 60° and you got
poor ground, like you might want

471
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,800
to just take out this chunk
here.

472
00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:56,680
But then that starts falling in.
So that just starts blowing out

473
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,600
and that's all waste.
And that, as I said, takes you

474
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,600
like you can only put a fixed
amount of ore through the mill

475
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,640
each year.
So say you've got 1,000,000

476
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,960
tonne to go through and all that
shit's fallen in, all that

477
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:09,680
shit's got to go.
Through.

478
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,920
It's got to go through.
So 1,000,000 at right 4G

479
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,240
compared to 1,000,000 at 3
grams.

480
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:20,000
That's a shit load of answers
that you've lost due to a lower

481
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,920
head grade.
So that's why.

482
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,160
And then when it lies over more
you obviously have the risk of

483
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,480
the hanging wall caving in so
you got to try and protect it.

484
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,400
Can't expose it too much, but
then you've got the foot wall as

485
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,040
well.
So the shallower it is the if

486
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,400
you fire too much dirt or just
it doesn't roll down the foot

487
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,160
wall into the draw point to bog
it out.

488
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,000
It just sits there.
So you either got to wash it

489
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,320
down or you've you've got to
fire a.

490
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,600
Little, but he's not helping.
You, no, you got to, you got to

491
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,480
fire just little bits at a time.
So it just sort of drops enough

492
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,640
into the drive so you can bog it
out and doesn't sit on the foot

493
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,960
wall.
And so yeah, if it's too flat,

494
00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:05,320
like if it's below 6055° it just
doesn't run down, then you might

495
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:10,080
have to actually take a chunk
out of the foot wall of waste to

496
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,880
steepen it up so it actually
rules.

497
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,720
Which again dilutes you because
you're having to take waste

498
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:16,920
you're.
Taking waste, yeah.

499
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,720
With with the the ore that
you're trying to get out.

500
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,560
Yeah.
And I think and I think I would

501
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,920
assume and it's rinse and
repeat.

502
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,680
So Gualia, it has been like that
for ages.

503
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,640
It's just how it is.
It's just how it is.

504
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,920
So I would assume like looking
at their grade and everything

505
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,560
like they, they would know the
process over and over again to

506
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,720
ensure that they get the foot
wall dirt out.

507
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,400
They control the dilution on the
hanging wall.

508
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,080
It probably doesn't always go
right.

509
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,640
Like there's always something
that fucks up.

510
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,600
Sometimes a person that might
fuck up and like overcharge it

511
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,840
or drill it incorrectly or
something like that.

512
00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,000
There's a lot of there's so many
things to control underground.

513
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,360
So, so a lot of things are out
of your control, but there's so

514
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,720
many things to control as well
from management like keeping

515
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:10,200
their eye on, you know, drilling
accuracy, like trying to not

516
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:16,680
drill too fast and try and be a
hero and actually deviating or

517
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,480
like missing the OR like it's
all, it all looks good on paper.

518
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:28,160
But like, that's, and that's why
some mines might be, you know,

519
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,320
have a reserve of 6 grams and
their head grades coming out at

520
00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:34,840
4 four and a half.
They're like, well, what's

521
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,840
wrong?
Like why what's is, is the

522
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,280
drilling incorrect?
Like there was some people like

523
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,320
think, oh, well, they must have
bloody overcalled the resource.

524
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,000
I'm like, well there's that or
it could be really, really hard

525
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,160
ground and operators are getting
the sheets and they're just

526
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,200
winding up the pressures to try
and drill quicker 'cause they're

527
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,320
just frustrated and all that
over feeding causes the drill

528
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,760
holes to start deviating.
And then, so then when?

529
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,400
When you're.
Blasting it it's not how, and

530
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,640
blasting it it's not.
I think you're.

531
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,680
Taking how you think it was.
Well, you think you're taking a

532
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,360
chunk out in the middle.
But it's actually.

533
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,760
Maybe you've actually, you've
actually take it out like this

534
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,680
chunk over here 'cause the holes
have gone like this and it, you

535
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,520
might actually miss bits of all.
So that, and that could affect

536
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,440
the head grade of a is, is drill
hole deviation.

537
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,760
So that's why a lot of them,
they have to, they need to know

538
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,520
if they're breaking through to
the level above like because if

539
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,440
they're not breaking through
when they're supposed to be

540
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,440
breaking through, that means
they've deviated to the side or

541
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,000
something.
So that's, there's a lot of QAQC

542
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:46,120
that goes into making sure that
like, yes, that's, and that's

543
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:50,280
the the funniest thing you see.
And you know, we're all culprits

544
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:55,600
for it was, as I said, you've
got all this prep work that goes

545
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,960
into firing a stoke.
That is what the mine is built

546
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,440
for is fire and a stoke.
And you get to this, get to the

547
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,160
last point and they're like,
Nah, we need it on the deck.

548
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,320
Like there's been months and
months and months of work and

549
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,920
money.
That's gone in being.

550
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,320
Fired and a shift like it needs
to be blown up on the deck.

551
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,760
They call it OK and you get to
it like they're like, Nah, needs

552
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,960
to be on the deck and a shift
and instead of waiting for half

553
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:25,040
a shift like and to ensure that
everything is done correctly to

554
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,560
make sure that is all blasted
out.

555
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,240
How it's supposed to.
Yeah, because it could fuck up

556
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,680
and leave a big chunk there
that's unblasted.

557
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,440
I've bloody did it.
I did it.

558
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,360
I left a big chunk at de Gruser
that I'm famous for because it

559
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,280
was all rushed and and like, but
all that prep work that's gone

560
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,360
into that point, it's like the
focus should be on making sure

561
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,080
everything is being done
properly to make sure that stoke

562
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,800
is fired because that was what
the hard mine is for.

563
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,000
It's not the jumbo.
It's not, it is firing Stokes

564
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,960
and it sort of gets, yeah, it
gets a lot of between the whole

565
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,960
all like the con like
contractor, like I was there

566
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,480
still a lot when you got the
contractor.

567
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,720
They're like, oh, we just want
to get work done, get motors,

568
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,000
get tons.
Whereas you know, the client who

569
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,440
owns the mine, the client that,
well technically the

570
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,440
shareholders owned the mine.
They they would want the Stoke

571
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,920
to be fired correctly.
It just means waiting 1/2 a.

572
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,880
Shift more Yeah, the client
might want a bloody just get a

573
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,240
bloody record for the week.
Like it's, yeah, it's, it

574
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,920
sometimes gets lost a bit, but
it is the most important thing

575
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,400
on a mine site.
The matter you were talking just

576
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,400
before about sort of the size of
Stokes and that what other

577
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,160
things can impact getting, you
know, tons out of the ground

578
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:49,800
onto the surface?
How Yeah, the heat and the

579
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,920
ventilation system cause like if
it's, well, if it's hot, it's

580
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,960
hard for everyone to work and
it's just harder to get

581
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:57,520
everything done 'cause it's
frigging hot.

582
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,000
Yeah and it's just.
But then the ventilation system

583
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,280
is dependent on if you've got a
lot of spread out mining areas

584
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,000
that are have a certain amount
of ventilation to each area, you

585
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,360
might be restricted on how many
trucks you can send down because

586
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,040
each truck has a certain metres
cube to vent that it needs for

587
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,120
that truck to be in the area.
Oh, it's like rated so.

588
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,880
Obviously it's not like you
could send down 10 trucks if you

589
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,000
wanted to because it's it they
need so much vent per truck.

590
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,800
Yeah, yeah.
I think it's like, oh, is it 24

591
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,280
cubes or something per second of
or a truck?

592
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,240
I don't know, but so all that
stuff, you might be ventilation

593
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,120
constrained on how many trucks
you can send down at one time.

594
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,760
So you might have one truck have
to come all the way out before

595
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,280
you can send another one down to
a certain area.

596
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:46,760
It might be available the
dirt's.

597
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,400
Down the dirt's there, the
boggers there waiting with the

598
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,480
fucking bucket up in the air,
like yeah, so that's

599
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,320
ventilation.
If if you hear it, mine being

600
00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,360
like needing ventilation
upgrades or vent constrained or

601
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,840
anything, you know, it's fucking
hard, like, and or it might be

602
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,320
just the deeper it gets, it just
gets too hot to have too many

603
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,520
trucks down there.
So that that's a big one.

604
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,600
And then and that affects your
cycle time.

605
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,960
Like if you can't, can't have
heaps of trucks down in one

606
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,560
area, like and you've got a heap
of dirt development to get out

607
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,840
to get a jumbo going to because
you can't.

608
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,520
That's the thing that it doesn't
get appreciated with production

609
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,040
is like you can't just nip away
at development all day and then

610
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,760
and do production the whole
time.

611
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,120
You might need to go send the
trucks all the development at

612
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,680
the start to get the dirt out to
have enough room in the

613
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,240
stockpile so they can bog the
head and then get the jumbos

614
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,480
back in.
And then they all the trucks go

615
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:48,200
to production where otherwise
you've got jumbos and that

616
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,880
parked up doing nothing and not
developing the mind.

617
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,520
So it's like all that tied
together and you don't really

618
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,760
know until you unless you've
worked there.

619
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,000
So you won't read it in an
announcement, but anything about

620
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,840
vent constraints, everything,
you know, it's just going to be

621
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,040
a bit hard.
Yeah.

622
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,960
What?
So yeah, spread out mines that

623
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,440
aren't sort of stacked together,
you know, you know, you're going

624
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:21,040
to need a lot of infrastructure,
like like a lot of different

625
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:27,080
vent, different pumping.
So if you go like to put like

626
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,840
ventilation in for an area like
you've got to develop down there

627
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:34,000
just on the secondary vent, like
just vent from ages away that's

628
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,199
blown through a vent bag.
You got to get down there and

629
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,440
then you can't.
Then you can start a rise ball,

630
00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:45,199
which to put like a primary vent
in, but you need the bottom

631
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:49,040
excavated first and then you got
to pull Raymond out to make it

632
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,840
bigger and then you got to put a
fan on it.

633
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,159
And so like getting all that
ventilation established, the

634
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:58,160
capital established can take a
lot of time and that can that

635
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:03,160
can slow the development of the
mime, which means it's you might

636
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,840
be vent constrained, you might
be not where you need to be.

637
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,440
And so trying to get X amount of
tons out just mightn't be

638
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,240
possible till you've got all
this this shit in.

639
00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:17,240
So it's like that's where is a
simple mine that's just a just a

640
00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:21,600
decline going down and one big
fat ore body or multiple ore

641
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,680
bodies next to each other that
you access from the one decline.

642
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,560
Yeah, could be one set of vent
infrastructure for it, one set

643
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:33,480
of pumping like all the powers
gets fed off from the one place

644
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:34,800
and.
It's simpler.

645
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,280
It's just easy.
Like it's just nice and simple.

646
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,400
That means if things are easy
and you don't need all that

647
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,800
other shit going on to make
everything else happen, you

648
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,280
should be able to get your dirt
out easy.

649
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,120
Yeah.
So there's like and it's even

650
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,880
like getting the dirt to the
mill, like it's getting the tons

651
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,120
out of the hole are one thing,
but then getting the dirt to the

652
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,000
ROM to the crusher and then into
the mill.

653
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,560
That's another thing because you
don't want fucking.

654
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,000
That's why you get so pushed to
do it.

655
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,280
Well, that's why mind the mill
specialists like you look at the

656
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,800
underground trucks that are
squashed down and driving around

657
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,280
at friggin 15 KS an hour.
I don't know how quick they go

658
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,120
on the surface.
Probably 20 or something.

659
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,200
You know what I'm fucking around
doing that on the surface,

660
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:22,880
getting it up to the mill.
You just get it.

661
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,440
Like if you're in a pit, you
just put a mini ROM pad in the

662
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,440
pit, dump it there, get back
underground, keep the boggers

663
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,280
going, keep the jumbos going.
You have the salt Bush trucks

664
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,720
tight buggering around with all
that and taking it to the mill.

665
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,360
Like that's why those
underground trucks aren't built

666
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,600
for driving around the surface
wasting their time.

667
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,440
They need to be underground,
they need to be moving dirt and

668
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,800
that's why salt Bush do the
surface stuff.

669
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,160
That's why they're the mind and
mill specialist.

670
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,400
They wouldn't exist if you
didn't need them.

671
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,280
JC.
And they love tons.

672
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,600
Yeah, they love tons.
So pretty much if you want the

673
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,280
best chance of hitting a target,
get saltpush on your mine site.

674
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,440
Anyway, that's I'm dead set
serious when I say that too.

675
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:08,440
And to divert a little bit, so
now you're down there on, on

676
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,000
your jumbo or your production
rig or or whatever, there's all

677
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,560
these, you know, gear and
machines running around you.

678
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,520
You might be 2300 metres
underground, if not more.

679
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,400
How hot is it under there?
And with all the gear you're

680
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,360
wearing as well, like, how can
you?

681
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,120
Like, what was your experience
of trying to work in those

682
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:28,320
conditions?
Oh, what?

683
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,240
Does it even like took you?
It takes you to some dark places

684
00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:33,920
at some mines because I've
worked in some fucking hot

685
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,840
mines.
Like, I think I worked, I

686
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,440
finished at a good one that
wasn't that hot, but God, I

687
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,960
worked at friggin between
Telfer, Agnew, Paulsen's and

688
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,840
Golden Grove.
They're all fucking deep hot and

689
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:55,360
oh, it's yeah, it's freaking and
you it's like.

690
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,040
Precise and you know.
And you're there for 11 and a

691
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,160
bit hours because you don't like
I only ever worked with

692
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,960
contractors.
So you like you freaking work 11

693
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,920
1/2 hours straight like you
don't none of the like you

694
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,360
wouldn't park up for lunch on a
jumbo like that is just you just

695
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,760
don't do it.
Like it's just not how it works.

696
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,200
Like you, you work for, you work
the whole way through and like,

697
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,880
wow, you'll be especially when
you start getting hot because

698
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,360
you get to that point of
especially the first night shift

699
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,120
in back from break because
you're used to being awake in

700
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,400
the day.
You get down there at night and

701
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,600
you are just like, you're just
nauseous, like you're sick and

702
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,520
you start vomiting because your
body's not used to being awake

703
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:39,000
and then it's hot.
So you just, you just really got

704
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,520
to look after yourself And then
like you get to the, you can get

705
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,440
to the point at the end like
midway through and you, you

706
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:48,000
start cramping and like 'cause
once you start, you can't sort

707
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,400
of stop cramping.
You got to sort of limp your way

708
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,240
through And like when it's two
and, but then like 2 days into

709
00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:57,280
the swing, you're like your
body's used to it and you can,

710
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,320
you run around, you sweat it
like anything and you're, and

711
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,400
you're fine.
But it's that.

712
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,600
That adjustment period at the
start of being back at work.

713
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,480
Oh, and you got to like and when
you're 'cause I was just bloody

714
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,200
flat out keen as anything.
But if you, if you're too kind

715
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,000
and because you're doing
everything the hard way, because

716
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,680
you're not as you're just, yeah,
you just might know how to do

717
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,160
things properly.
And then you're you're.

718
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,760
Fatigued and then you're just,
oh, you just start, you start

719
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,640
not making decisions properly,
like you just it's such a big

720
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,040
focus trying to keep everyone
bloody.

721
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,840
When it's hot, it's hot, but it
can affect the output of the of

722
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,960
the mind because you've got
people like you've really got to

723
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,800
slow down sometimes or yeah,
like you can't slow down too

724
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,680
much because then you sort of
lose, you become a bit lazy.

725
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,120
Like you got to, you got to move
with the purpose down there

726
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,960
because if you're not like you
mightn't be, you get complacent.

727
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:52,480
They're like, oh, you got to
slow down.

728
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,080
Think about what you're doing.
Like some I've always believed

729
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,560
you got to you got to work hard
and can be switched on like

730
00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:01,680
hyper because you're thinking
about everything when you.

731
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,000
Go too slow, you get lazy and
that's when shit can happen

732
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,240
sometimes, yeah.
So, yeah, it's.

733
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:11,160
But then depends on how, depends
on the depth, depends on.

734
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,760
So talking about hate, but you
could have like these shallow

735
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:21,440
minds that are fucking hot
because they've got all bodies

736
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,000
spread out everywhere and
they've got they've got to try

737
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,160
and independently ventilate.
And I've talked about this these

738
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,840
places before, but you got to
they got to independently

739
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,800
ventilate those areas.
So you need to like dedicated

740
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,840
fan return airway or they might
be reliant on that air to come

741
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,760
back out of that area to flow
down to another area.

742
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:45,520
So when they're you, you can't
just how a development and even

743
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,240
a production cycle works.
Like there's not just one truck

744
00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:51,200
going down every day and then
throughout the whole day

745
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,120
consistently.
Like when a bogger needs to bog

746
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:59,000
out a heading and they fill a
stockpile up, they need to get

747
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,080
there could be like 8 trucks
worth of dirt to come out of

748
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,520
that heading, right?
So they don't, you can't just

749
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,920
have one truck go down every
hour because you need to get

750
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,720
that cleaned out as quick as you
can and bogged out so that the

751
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:13,560
jumbo can get back in there.
So you might have, you know, 3

752
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,800
trucks all going down there at
once, like and they're just load

753
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,600
that one goes out, the other one
comes in.

754
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,680
So you got 3, you've already got
the bogger there generating

755
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,400
heat.
Then you've got all three trucks

756
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,960
going down there, which are all
generating a lot of heat because

757
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,880
they're diesel trucks.
And then that ventilation

758
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:35,040
system, like the air is there to
try and keep it cool and flush

759
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,760
all the fumes and the heat out.
But if you've got all that down

760
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,000
there, that's that area then
just gets so hot because that's

761
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,560
like the trucks are driving
under the vent bag, which is

762
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,240
heating the air up that's coming
out of there.

763
00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:48,240
So when you're working in that,
so then you might, you Jumbo

764
00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:52,160
might and this is what I talk
about, you know, like say if

765
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,000
they're they're doing production
up one end of the level and then

766
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,480
Jumbo's up the other end of the
level.

767
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:57,880
This is what Tucker talked
about.

768
00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:01,760
You've got all those, the remote
bogger might fill up the stock

769
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,880
ball and then they they need all
the trucks to come down to bog

770
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,200
it all out, empty the stockpile
so they can start telling

771
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,600
remoting again, which is when
they're on the joysticks in an

772
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,760
open stop.
But all those trucks are coming

773
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,440
down heating up all the vent bag
and everything that's blowing

774
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,400
the air on the jump operator up
the end.

775
00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:24,120
So that's why it's important to
trying to have your development

776
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:25,840
completely.
Separated from your.

777
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,840
Production like as much as as
best as you can.

778
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,720
So because you're going to get
more out of that operator if

779
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:36,200
they're not dizzy and hot and
cramping and everything and

780
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:40,160
they're comfortable, then you
would like yeah, when they you

781
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,640
put them in that environment.
So.

782
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:47,960
Cause with the ventilation,
like, you know, does like how,

783
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:53,240
how cool would that make the an,
an underground mine setting?

784
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:57,080
Or is it just, you know, they
try and keep it at X degrees,

785
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,120
but then, you know, depending on
like as you say, what's going on

786
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,680
in the mine, that sort of ebb
and flow, you know, throughout

787
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,720
the day.
Oh yeah, it depends.

788
00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:06,360
Depends on the surface
temperature.

789
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:12,680
So 'cause if you've got, you
know, if it's 45° on the

790
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,240
surface, that's 45° dry bulb
that's coming through the

791
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:17,920
portal.
So you can't really cool it down

792
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,800
from there.
So the, the temperature

793
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,960
underground is more humid
because of the water and yes,

794
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,880
and everything.
So, but then you go, it'll go to

795
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,360
winter and the, the underground
is cooler because the surface is

796
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,000
cool.
So and then in your really,

797
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:38,400
really deep minds where they
need need refrigeration to cool

798
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:45,360
the air further, when I remember
at Telfer when the cyclone

799
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,440
season come over, the
refrigeration was an it's like

800
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,480
an evaporative refrigeration,
same as what you have in your

801
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,240
house.
So when it's humid on the

802
00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:56,720
surface, evapor, evaporative air
con doesn't work that well.

803
00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:00,120
So I like the IT wasn't actually
chilling the air that much and

804
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,800
it was it was fucking it's hot.
So mines aren't.

805
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:10,200
So when you've got spread out
mines, that's just like the

806
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,360
ventilation challenges, the
infrastructure challenges, like

807
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:17,120
between the pumping the power,
getting it all down there, like

808
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,400
all the machinery having to go
from here and trim all the way

809
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,280
to here.
Like it's you might have the

810
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,760
same amount of gold or copper or
whatever, but it's so much

811
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,120
harder to get to it.
Yeah.

812
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,640
And get work involved to get
that same yeah amount.

813
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,800
And that, and that's why you
look at mines that are just,

814
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,760
they might have all their ore
bodies stacked together or like

815
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,000
it's just one decline that goes
in and you go into a level and

816
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,160
there's just shit loads of gold
or copper on one level and the

817
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,040
trucks just go in and out.
And then they just do another

818
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:50,400
level.
And they don't have to.

819
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,880
There's one set of there's one
set of pumping infrastructure,

820
00:44:54,880 --> 00:45:00,640
there's one set of power for it.
There's there's like just a big

821
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:06,400
return airway bent rise.
Like there's just, it's just

822
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,640
easy, like and then the air goes
in to one level, comes back out,

823
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:14,520
goes down to the other one like,
and it's just simple like.

824
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,880
And so sometimes the most
simplest operations, they

825
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,880
mightn't have high grade, but
they're so much easier to

826
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,400
achieve their targets.
And I think, I think you asked

827
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,720
me this question before and I'll
just ranted on about something

828
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:31,920
completely different.
But you want to look at from a

829
00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:35,200
investment point of view how a
mine is going to hit their

830
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,040
targets.
It's like, well, how easy is it

831
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:42,040
for them to get 1,000,000 tonne
out or 1 1/2 or?

832
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,400
What's the work?
Or three million tonne, look at

833
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:48,800
long Town, everyone's like can
they get 3,000,000 tonne out of

834
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:53,520
an out of an underground?
If they just put one decline in

835
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:58,000
to go and had all these trucks
fighting each other up and down,

836
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,240
they would not get 3,000,000
tonne.

837
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,480
But the difference, the thing
that they've done to make it

838
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,200
possible is having like an
update client and a down

839
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,400
decline.
So they've spent the money to.

840
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:11,480
Simplify the.
Yeah.

841
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,920
So also pretty much every truck
that goes down will go down and

842
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:20,760
get loaded and then it'll go
around some loop or access the

843
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,840
update client.
So you've just got they're going

844
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,640
in.
So instead of them all going

845
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,440
down and one has to, one has to
pull off to let the other one

846
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,320
passed and like just back and
forth, back and forth, they,

847
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,240
they've just got to have this
circuit where it'll just, and

848
00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:37,400
that, that could be worth, I
don't know, that could be worth

849
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,880
half a million tonne a year just
in efficiency at least.

850
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:45,880
And that's the thing, it's sort
of hard to quantify the the

851
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:50,000
benefits or the outcomes of that
because yes, there's obviously

852
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,800
capital involved to put that in
place.

853
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,920
But then it's like, Oh well,
what's my return on it?

854
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:02,040
And it's sort of hard to, it's
hard to quantify what the, the

855
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:05,440
benefit is because it's like, Oh
well, because I'm able to get in

856
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,160
and out of the mind quicker.
I'm not getting in people's way,

857
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,280
you know, perhaps I can, you
know, get so much more tons in a

858
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,560
particular shift or a particular
week and stuff.

859
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:20,040
So yeah, like you'd never really
think to, I guess from my

860
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,840
perspective, think to even like
look at something like that.

861
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:26,920
Oh, and it's like because they
might need that amount of tons

862
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,680
to like make money like at
scale, like, you know, a gold

863
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,440
mine with all the people and
equipment and everything

864
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:35,680
provided.
They're not going to just mine

865
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,240
200,000 tonne a year.
It's not going to pay for

866
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:40,160
everything.
Like they might need to get to

867
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:41,800
get the share market happy and
everything.

868
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,280
They might need to get 1,000,000
tonne.

869
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:49,400
But there is so many things that
conhibit that I said like just

870
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:54,560
all body location when they're
all spread out and that means

871
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,280
there's more capital required to
get to each of them, more vent

872
00:47:58,280 --> 00:47:59,600
required, which costs more
money.

873
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,880
So like your operating costs,
your capital cost goes up and

874
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,720
even probably your operating
cost goes up because it's not as

875
00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:08,760
efficient because you're just
it's all over the shop.

876
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,520
But when you've got a simple
operation, you might need less

877
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,560
machinery to get the same amount
of material out.

878
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:19,880
And then like it's like ground
hardness like rock like that can

879
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,200
and ground conditions like and
water like as soon as you start.

880
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,760
Water.
Water what's what's it's

881
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:28,560
probably.
Just a simple.

882
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:32,280
Question of what what What's the
What's water really important

883
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:33,800
for underground for those who
don't know.

884
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,360
Well, or you need water to power
the rigs.

885
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,120
Yeah, but then water if there's
too much water and you're trying

886
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,760
to develop a decline, but you
can't pump the water out to have

887
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,800
a clean area down there to put
all the holes in and charge it

888
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:48,040
all.
You just can't.

889
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,720
It's just a you're in a friggin
standstill nearly.

890
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,040
So water can be waters can be
your biggest.

891
00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:57,360
The only thing you need
waterfalls to, you know, wash

892
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:58,760
everything down and power the
rigs.

893
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,400
But which is if you don't have
it, you can't do anything.

894
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,280
But then if you have too much of
it coming.

895
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,200
Through the ground.
It completely fucks the joint.

896
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,640
So I'll, I'll take you through
the journey.

897
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,640
If the if you're developing the
ideal mind or the OR a shit one,

898
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,360
and a lot of it's out, it's out
of the owner's control.

899
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,440
It's what was what God put
there.

900
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,200
Yeah.
So you cut the border, which is

901
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:28,520
the coming in from the surface
or in from in from a pit or

902
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,480
whatever, and you start mining
the.

903
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,520
Front door to the front the.
Front door, best way to put it.

904
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,960
So your ideal situation is like
the ground's nice and competent.

905
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,680
It's not not too hard.
Like if it's too hard, it takes

906
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,960
so long to drill all the holes
and you're just it's, it's just.

907
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:48,680
You need sort of something in
the middle.

908
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,720
That boring process of showing
for an old drive, you could

909
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:56,080
either take you, it could take
you an hour in good ground like

910
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,880
just which is easy to get
through, or it might take you 2

911
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:00,920
hours in if it's really, really
hard.

912
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:06,240
So that's like that's a lot less
meters per jumbo depending on

913
00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:09,160
the hardness.
So I say you're going through

914
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,400
punching that in like it's all
if it's nice and competent, that

915
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,240
means you don't need shit loads
of ground support.

916
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:18,400
It's just normal mesh and split
sets.

917
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:23,920
Whereas if the ground is like
poor and it's falling in or like

918
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,960
you might need to put shock
crate up, which is cement.

919
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,840
So it's like an extra machine
that has an extra cost you have

920
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:31,680
to put in.
Then you might have to put mesh

921
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,240
over the top of that.
Then you might have to put resin

922
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:38,800
bolts in, which which take twice
as long, even more than split

923
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,040
sets like it might, and it costs
more.

924
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,000
Oh, it's just because you got to
put the glue in.

925
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,400
Then you got to put the bolt in.
So it's an extra step.

926
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,040
Two steps and then if it's shit
ground you might be scale and

927
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:54,480
heaps like it's that.
So ideally if it's competent,

928
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,880
you can drill quick enough.
It's not much ground support,

929
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,280
the whole mind just flows.
It's just easy.

930
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:08,120
And whereas you might have hard
ground in common ground, but it

931
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,600
might, you might drill a 4 1/2
meter hole and I blast out three

932
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,720
meters and you've got all this
shit you got to scale off called

933
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:18,400
the butt.
So I like the I don't know what

934
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:23,400
I don't know what the word the
exca Excava excavability.

935
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,960
Not at all.
They're just like the blaster,

936
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,840
how blaster bullet is like some
ground blasts easy.

937
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,960
Some ground is a pain in the ass
to do it.

938
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:36,040
So and that can fuck you around.
So like your meters advance per

939
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,720
cycle is lower, so you're not
getting as far.

940
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:44,320
So and then like if the ground
shit like between putting,

941
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,000
putting up extra ground support
takes heaps longer cost heaps

942
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,960
more.
So like the meters you get it,

943
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:55,600
you know, or like for John D
when I was there, awesome

944
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:57,800
ground.
Like don't need heaps of ground

945
00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,240
support.
There's just, you know, all

946
00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:02,520
drivers, like 3 sheets of mesh
and bloody 20 bolts or

947
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,360
something.
And you, you're in and out in an

948
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,200
hour.
And whereas some mines you might

949
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,760
be balding and heading for five
or six hours because it's got

950
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,520
all these different forms of
ground support and it's all

951
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,560
those factors.
And so now and what the ground

952
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:19,480
conditions are.
So if I'm looking out of mind to

953
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:23,160
hit targets, it's like when
they're talking about the

954
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:26,040
ground, ground's really hard.
So it's really slow or the

955
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,200
ground conditions are poor and
it needs types of ground

956
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,600
support.
And your meters per jumbo are a

957
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,440
lot lower.
Like you just know it's hard

958
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,360
work.
So that means production will

959
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,960
catch up to development quickly.
Everything's going to be on top

960
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,240
of each other.
And so you can sort it from

961
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:46,640
after working in it and applying
it to because I guess fight like

962
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,520
looking at the financials are
all, you know, backwards looking

963
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,000
like it's like this is how much
it's cost.

964
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,880
This is the this is what the mod
the models are predicting for

965
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,800
the future based on their
guidance and everything.

966
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:02,120
Like, whereas I think if you
look at the, the ore body and

967
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,560
the mind design and the ground
conditions and it, as I said, if

968
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,600
there's water, like if there's
water, natural water coming in,

969
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,520
that makes everything difficult.
Like controlling that can take

970
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,840
time.
And like all those factors you

971
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,800
think of like you can sort of
analyse like, right?

972
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,680
Can you predict any if this is
going to be an easy mine or a

973
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:24,960
hard mine, like to hit targets
like, and sometimes the, it's

974
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:30,040
just the most boring, simple
vertical narrow vine mines that

975
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,360
just keep going and going, just
continue to make money.

976
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:41,720
And whereas the the ones that
have got shit ground hot, like a

977
00:53:41,720 --> 00:53:45,040
lot of bloody cost of
infrastructures like because

978
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,640
you've got to put that much in
like it just they just seem to

979
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:52,960
be always chasing their tail.
But then sort of taking it a, a

980
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,200
step back.
So as far as the process, so you

981
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,440
said you open up the, the
portal, the front door to the

982
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,000
underground mine.
Then then what happens after

983
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,280
that?
Because we sort of we sort of

984
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:06,960
jumped straight to the jumbo and
the production side.

985
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,640
So, so but what happens all
before that, before the the

986
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:11,440
jumbos and the production rigs
get in?

987
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,160
Well, that the jumbos do in the
portal.

988
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:14,120
They're they're doing the
portal.

989
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,120
Yeah, so they do that whole
thing the whole way down.

990
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,920
But if, as I said, if the, if
your cycle's taken twice as long

991
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:23,040
because of shit ground or more
ground support needed, that

992
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:27,040
means it takes you 2 years to
get to 1st production instead of

993
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:31,080
one year because you've it takes
you twice as long to develop all

994
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,440
the drives and decline and, and
everything.

995
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:38,960
So yeah, that's why you know,
for them to companies will say,

996
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,640
oh, we got first production in
November next year, just 12

997
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,040
months away.
They're like, and they finally

998
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,200
just cut the portal.
It's like that's how they can

999
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,120
sort of come unstuck because
they get in there and they're

1000
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:54,040
like Adriatic perfect example.
They predicted all these things

1001
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,920
began then get down there and
the ground was absolutely shit

1002
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,960
and it just kept all and they
had to put all this extra ground

1003
00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:05,680
support in and everything just
blew out because I think mostly

1004
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,520
a function of ground conditions
that they did not predict.

1005
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,160
And then it just blew out.
Timelines blew out first

1006
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,640
concentrate because you just,
you can only mine as quick as

1007
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:16,560
the operator and the ground let
you.

1008
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,760
So yeah.
So you cut the portal and then

1009
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:28,160
the decline is basically the is
that sort of like the could you

1010
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,600
think of it as like the main
freeway that everyone sort of

1011
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:34,000
comes on and off on to go back
out?

1012
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,400
The good analogies.
Jason, I'm trying to simplify it

1013
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,640
for my brain.
It's like the the decline is the

1014
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,880
freeway and all the levels are
the streets.

1015
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,800
The streets, Yeah.
Oh, that's actually, yeah,

1016
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,280
that's a good visual actually.
That's OK.

1017
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:49,320
And then you got all the levels
and then sort of as you, you

1018
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:50,760
pretty much.
You could think like, you could

1019
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,440
think of the ore drives as
Peppermint Drive.

1020
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,480
So what do you that's like,
that's like the Boulevard,

1021
00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:59,880
that's where all the money is.
You've got like, well, West

1022
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:03,360
Coast Dr. Broome, St.
Mummy and St. the 6011.

1023
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,560
Yeah, all of coming off Stirling
Highway.

1024
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:10,520
Yeah, yeah.
OK, so that's sort of that's

1025
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:14,640
actually just visually thinking
about it that like that really

1026
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:18,840
simplifies it for me.
But actually going, I know we're

1027
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,120
sort of jumping around here, but
just sort of getting in the

1028
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,360
weeds and stuff is awesome.
So like what have you talked

1029
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:28,960
about before sort of certain
stats, you know, they appear,

1030
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,480
you know, you know, sort of
simple or a bit rudimentary, but

1031
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:37,160
then what it can perhaps signal
of what's to come with the mine

1032
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,040
or what's sort of happening at
the mine and stuff.

1033
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:43,880
What are what are some other
ones that are you know or gives

1034
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,720
you, you know, say if in a ramp
up situation that you think, OK,

1035
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:51,960
ramp up seems to be going well
or things are maybe a bit slower

1036
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:56,720
than anticipated.
Oh, it's the average metres per

1037
00:56:56,720 --> 00:57:00,560
month per jumbo is usually the
an indicator.

1038
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:06,280
Like if it's, if the jumbos are
killing it, like just you know,

1039
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,360
there's not many jumbos, they're
getting a lot of metres.

1040
00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:12,000
That's an indication straight
away that oh, the ground's good.

1041
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,400
Like it's obviously.
They're working their way

1042
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:16,440
through.
Easy digging and means like, oh,

1043
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,480
they obviously don't need too
much ground support like so the

1044
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:24,640
ground conditions must be good.
You know that you know, if

1045
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,520
they're they're in the four
hundreds or something, you're

1046
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:28,440
like, oh shit, that's bloody,
that's good gun.

1047
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:34,000
Well, that's whereas, you know,
if they've struggling to get

1048
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:38,200
300, you're like, OK, why are
they only getting 300?

1049
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,440
Is it do they need a lot of
ground support?

1050
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:46,680
Is the ground really hard?
Is you know, is it really spread

1051
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,600
out?
Like is that the issue?

1052
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:53,800
Is how does someone like me know
how much meters a jumbo should

1053
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,760
be doing a a month or 1/4 at a
particular mine?

1054
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,080
Oh just do they know?
Does the company normally say

1055
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:01,280
this is?
No, it just says, oh, they'll

1056
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,680
say it in the feasibility study
and everything, but it's just

1057
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,520
based on knowing what a jumbo
can achieve.

1058
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,600
And, you know, normally they've,
if they've got good, good people

1059
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,480
there, like they're, they want
to achieve.

1060
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:15,400
And like, there's, you know,
there's obviously different

1061
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,840
levels of skills.
Like there's you, they pay shit

1062
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,440
loads that are, you know, going
to get that are going to get

1063
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,320
more and that bring good people
with them.

1064
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,680
Or if they're just they're not
going to pay shit loads, they

1065
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,120
might get someone a bit down the
run that and it just doesn't

1066
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,160
flow as much.
But it's, it's a money trade

1067
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:37,440
off.
But it's that, that's, that's

1068
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,360
sort of one that because that's
the hardest thing in like

1069
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,880
quarterlies and that like
they're not going to, they don't

1070
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:47,640
go into too much detail, but you
want to know, it's just sort of

1071
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:52,960
a bit of an indicator on how
the, because so if the, if the

1072
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,320
ground can, if they're not
putting much ground support up,

1073
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:58,960
but they're still not getting
heaps of metres, that means

1074
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,640
that, OK, the ground's obviously
really hard.

1075
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:05,520
And so that that's making it
slow for the jumbos, which means

1076
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,280
OK, that's going to make it slow
for the jumbos to get ahead of

1077
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:10,400
production.
And production and development

1078
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:12,880
are always going to be fighting.
It's going to be hard to get

1079
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:16,800
sort of a consistency.
And it might and it might, you

1080
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,440
know, I mean that it's really
hard and holes might deviate if

1081
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,880
they overfeed or, or whatever,
like, and it's just like, oh,

1082
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:28,320
it's like, fuck, there's could
be some dramas coming up.

1083
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,160
And then or if it says they're
putting in lots of ground

1084
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:35,320
support because the ground
conditions are poor, it's like,

1085
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,600
OK, well, if the ground
conditions are poor in

1086
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,280
development, that means when
they go into production, they're

1087
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:41,720
probably going to be poor as
well.

1088
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:45,760
It usually, usually Adriatic was
actually the other way around.

1089
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:48,120
There was poor ground conditions
in the capital, but the ground

1090
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:51,400
got actually good in the ore,
which is oh, OK, yeah,

1091
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:54,640
completely the opposite.
So that then you can infer from

1092
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:57,840
that, OK, if the ground
conditions are poor, that means

1093
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,680
it may dilute the grade of the
reserve.

1094
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:05,760
The reserve might apply. 10 to
20% unplanned dilution, that

1095
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,040
might be high.
So that may might mean the head

1096
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:11,680
grade might be lower going
through the mill.

1097
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,800
It's like, OK, that means there
might be a risk of not hitting

1098
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,800
guidance and so you can sort of
use all that.

1099
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:21,720
Just a bit of a leading
indicator of what might be

1100
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:24,120
happening along the way.
Yeah, yeah.

1101
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:25,880
And it's like, and they're,
they're never going to really

1102
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,400
tell like you'd probably see
from a site visit the level of

1103
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:32,480
ground support that goes in and
they're not going to really

1104
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,160
disclose all the details of
like.

1105
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,400
That level of granularity.
Yeah, yeah.

1106
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:40,760
And it's like that you, you
know, and because a lot of these

1107
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:46,600
mines are restarts, like, like
you knew Bellevue was hard

1108
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,360
before Bellevue started because
it was a historical mine.

1109
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,280
So all the people that used to
work in it were like, oh, it's

1110
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:57,320
bloody hard as anything, you
know, like Andy, Well, for

1111
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,440
instance, that's a race start.
People have worked there before,

1112
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:02,960
like the and the ground was
laminated.

1113
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:04,880
Then I assume it still is
laminated.

1114
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:11,800
So like you, that's the thing.
It's like, it's not like, I

1115
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,280
don't know, you can ask people
that have worked, worked, worked

1116
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,840
at these places 20 years ago.
What was that joint like to work

1117
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:17,720
out?
What were the issues?

1118
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:19,200
They're like, oh, yada, yada,
yada.

1119
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:24,200
I don't think it's, I don't
think that's illegal to like ask

1120
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:25,880
someone that's worked in a mine
before.

1121
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:28,800
What was the ground like?
It's just a personal

1122
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:30,280
conversation.
Yeah.

1123
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:35,880
And then so the actual, the sort
of the the mining, the

1124
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,920
underground mining method, I
mean we sort of ran through it A

1125
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:43,760
at a high level just sort of as
we're chatting is that is that

1126
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,120
the only way you can mine
underground?

1127
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:49,720
I imagine there's, you know, you
hear the terms like block caving

1128
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:53,960
and other sorts of things.
So is that just because I heard,

1129
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:58,560
is it long haul open soaping is
that's what you've described?

1130
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,200
Yeah, yeah, pretty much that.
And that's the most common one

1131
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:04,120
in Australia.
It's long haul open stopping.

1132
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:08,520
It's just, yeah, it's just
mining, mining the veins out for

1133
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:11,560
whatever commodity you're mining
where.

1134
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:16,840
But when it's like bulk, like a
copper gold porphyry or like a

1135
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:20,120
big bulk ore body, that's when
your cavings come into it.

1136
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:22,240
Like our gold diamond mine that
was a block cave.

1137
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,560
It was just because it's like a
diamond.

1138
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:28,960
The pipe they just block caved
the pipe Telfer.

1139
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:32,280
Telfer was actually the sub
level cave, which is it's

1140
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,440
different to a block cave.
You just mine the levels and

1141
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:38,480
like instead of going all the
way to the bottom and letting

1142
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,600
the whole thing cave you just
sort of you still mine each

1143
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:45,080
level and then it gradually just
caves down and you just follow

1144
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:47,240
it down a bit different.
You just still develop every

1145
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:49,600
level.
Go watch a video on YouTube if

1146
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:50,880
anyone wants to know the
difference.

1147
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:58,800
But I think that was just a heap
of gold vines like in an area.

1148
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,280
And it's like, well, instead of
mining them independently and

1149
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:05,000
fucking around, we'll just take
it all together as a bulk low

1150
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:10,800
grade operation like Leinster
Perseverance, the nickel

1151
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:14,000
operation.
That was a sub level cave like

1152
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:17,880
Maggie Hayes, which was all I
think it was like Nora List.

1153
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:19,400
The Russians owned that back in
the day.

1154
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:20,880
I think that was a sub level
cave.

1155
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:25,120
I think Redeemer back in the day
that was a sub level cave.

1156
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:27,200
I think it's some other ones
around.

1157
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:30,760
And like you know, your big sub
level caves and block caves in

1158
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:35,360
Australia or Arcadia.
That's like the like even

1159
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:41,400
Tanami, like that's a big a big
mine that's still open stopping.

1160
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,560
Like that's not caved.
That's a big pretty big decent

1161
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,000
ore body.
That's still mind is stopping.

1162
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:50,320
It just just depends.
But you'd pick the the

1163
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:56,040
underground mining method based
on the ore body.

1164
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,080
The ore body show Ernest Henry,
that was another sub level cave

1165
01:03:59,880 --> 01:04:01,840
that's like, yeah, ore body
shape.

1166
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:05,520
Like who's doing it?
Like to do a block cave it has

1167
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:11,320
to be done by a a Newmont or a
BHP or a Rea because they have

1168
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:14,520
the capital and the money behind
them to develop all the way down

1169
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:16,760
to the bottom and not make any
money for.

1170
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:18,520
Ages.
Yep.

1171
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:24,240
And then create a block cave,
whereas a bloody Northern Star

1172
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:26,600
might.
They're not at that scale.

1173
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:30,360
They're like now we want cash
flow, now we're going.

1174
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,640
To develop aggressively.
Friggin soaping operation or a

1175
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:38,760
sub level cave because we want
cash now just but it is all body

1176
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,440
dependent but a lot who's minded
it as well.

1177
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:46,360
And then the the last question
I'd like to ask you, and I think

1178
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:48,200
we've also gone for around an
hour as well.

1179
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:56,240
What's something or a couple of
things about underground mining

1180
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:03,560
that are really underappreciated
that you want people to know If

1181
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,960
you could stand in the middle of
Saint George's Terrace To all

1182
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:10,400
the brokers and the bankers who
just like maybe don't understand

1183
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:14,120
this as well and go, you know,
you need to know about this.

1184
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:15,640
This is this is really
important.

1185
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:19,000
You need to appreciate this.
Yeah, well it's all we've talked

1186
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:20,680
about a bit today.
Like it's funny.

1187
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:27,120
Safety is like, you know, it is
at the top of top of the bloody

1188
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:28,960
announcement.
Usually there we take the piss

1189
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:31,920
out of it a bit.
But if you're not having

1190
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:35,920
incidents on site it means
management aren't fucking around

1191
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:39,200
doing icams and like having
people in the office.

1192
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:41,640
OK, sorry, it's.
Like a safety investigation

1193
01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:44,280
process, OK, incident
investigation process.

1194
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:47,320
If they're bugging around doing
all that shit, they're not

1195
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,000
focusing on mining.
So if there's like a a site that

1196
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,480
doesn't have many incidents, the
whole everything just flows.

1197
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,640
Everything's easy.
No one's hurting for themselves.

1198
01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:57,840
Like, you know, things are
getting done right.

1199
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:03,880
That's that's a a thing that's
probably under appreciated from

1200
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:07,320
the investor side.
It's just a it's just a bit of a

1201
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:10,640
number.
But and obviously you don't, you

1202
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:14,160
do not want people going up
there being hurt or worse.

1203
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:17,440
Yes, trying to earn a living
like it's just freaking

1204
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:19,000
horrible.
Absolutely.

1205
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:23,760
So that, and that's, but the
success of a mine is like, you

1206
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:28,680
know, is the safe, the safest
minds and the happiest minds is

1207
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:32,720
some are usually the most
productive and the most, which

1208
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:34,520
return more money to
shareholders.

1209
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:39,240
Like hate like, and, and that's
what like these models and

1210
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:43,000
everything when they people dish
management, they're like, oh,

1211
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,800
manage, that's management's job.
As in like the fucking managing

1212
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:47,960
director or whatever.
This one person.

1213
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:50,920
Well, as I said, there are
hundreds of people working on

1214
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:55,160
these mine sites and there's so
many layers of middle management

1215
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:59,680
that are trying to get all these
things to happen to deliver

1216
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:06,320
1,000,000 tonne to the mill and
150,000 oz like it is.

1217
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:09,840
There is so much that goes into
it and then.

1218
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:13,360
So many variables to control and
some that are out of your

1219
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,640
control.
Oh, mate, and the, and the, the

1220
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:19,680
pressure and responsibility on
the management, especially like

1221
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:23,960
the, the senior execs here like
that are employing a lot of

1222
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,880
people and that employ a lot of
people and have to trust these

1223
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:30,160
people to do their job.
So the person below them does

1224
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:35,560
their job and everyone does
their job to get the figures to

1225
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:39,280
get it done safely, so they can
report to the market that

1226
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:45,280
they've hit guidance or they've
just misguided.

1227
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,360
And what goes into that number
is phenomenal.

1228
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:50,680
And I just don't think people
appreciate it.

1229
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:55,600
So when they sort of hang shit
on management and about like

1230
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:57,880
poor management and poor
decisions and like they start

1231
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,360
becoming a bit of a scapegoat.
It's all from people that

1232
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,880
haven't been there and done it.
Like once you've been there and

1233
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:06,040
done it and watched it and being
involved in it, there is so much

1234
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:08,480
that goes into it.
So yes, it is shareholder money

1235
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:12,120
that can be affected by, you
know, over promotion and and

1236
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:14,160
things like that.
But fuck me, there's a lot of

1237
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:18,920
people that work their ass off
and away from their family and

1238
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:23,840
everything to get make all that
happen that just sort of get

1239
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:25,960
consumed by a number at the end
of the quarter.

1240
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:29,399
So yeah, it's maybe that's why
I'm a bit softer.

1241
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:33,240
But what's the other one like?
Yeah, hey, we talked about hate

1242
01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:39,560
barking hard work like that's
and what else?

1243
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:45,000
Oh, the amount of just probably
the amount of the service

1244
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:49,520
providers that go into making
mines possible and like the the

1245
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:52,479
amount of people that are like
contracting and being a service

1246
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:53,640
provider.
It's not they're all not

1247
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:56,080
millionaires.
A lot of them have might be

1248
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:59,080
freaking strung out 90 days
waiting for payments from mining

1249
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:00,600
companies.
Family businesses.

1250
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:03,479
Yeah, like, and there's some
people that have just got it on

1251
01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:06,200
the line.
They might get rich when they're

1252
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:09,600
60, but far out.
There's some people that have

1253
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:14,680
some bloody minerals to, you
know, assist the mining

1254
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:16,680
industry.
So pay your invoices on time.

1255
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:20,439
Mining companies don't fuck
around with trade payables, but

1256
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:23,520
look after the small businesses.
Fuck what else?

1257
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:25,240
I don't know.
That's good.

1258
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,600
Fucking love mining.
Love it, love it.

1259
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:30,040
It's been frigging good to me.
I wouldn't be sitting here doing

1260
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,160
this if it wasn't for the mining
industry.

1261
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:36,880
There's a lot of shit that goes
around about it, but I can what?

1262
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:39,000
He makes this fucking country
great.

1263
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:40,040
Go Australia.
Go.

1264
01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:43,200
Australian go mining.
That was that was awesome.

1265
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:49,040
I I just like you said the other
day, I I was fascinated by that.

1266
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:53,160
I think I'll for me, I kind of
I've knew bits and pieces and

1267
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:56,600
then some of the the bits that
sort of join it together sort of

1268
01:09:56,600 --> 01:10:00,880
got really clarified and really
solidified in my mind today.

1269
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:02,200
So that was, that was.
Awesome.

1270
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:04,560
Oh, and it's like as it's trying
to condense and I think it was a

1271
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:07,560
comment on the YouTube like
you're trying to condense like I

1272
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,280
only did it 14 years, which is
actually probably not.

1273
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:13,760
That is not that long compared
to people that have been in the

1274
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,120
industry.
And like just the fucking, the

1275
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:20,720
info you can absorb in that time
is like trying to explain it.

1276
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:25,360
It's just every time I look at
a, an announcement or something,

1277
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:27,760
you sort of apply it to a
historical learning.

1278
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:30,640
Oh, that was hard at that joint.
Is that going to be hard at

1279
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:32,320
that, like difficult at that
joint?

1280
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:35,240
Oh, that was that looks like
this place that was easy.

1281
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,400
Or is that going to be easy like
it's yeah.

1282
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:40,440
And it's just based on what
you've seen or what you've

1283
01:10:40,440 --> 01:10:42,880
heard.
So just keep your ears open,

1284
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:45,200
everyone.
Just talk, talk to talk to

1285
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:48,000
everyone.
You can learn something off

1286
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:51,040
everyone.
Especially, you know, I think

1287
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:54,320
you've mentioned this on the on
the show before, like you, you

1288
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:57,760
come across miners or operators
that have been, you know, doing

1289
01:10:57,760 --> 01:11:03,440
this for 30-40, you know, maybe
even longer years and, you know,

1290
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:07,600
listen to what they have to say.
You know, they've they've seen a

1291
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:11,680
lot.
So I mean, I don't think 14

1292
01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:13,520
years is anything to snooze at
anyway.

1293
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:15,400
So I'm sure the money might have
got.

1294
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:16,680
To learn.
Hey, the last one.

1295
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:19,880
The last one, that's all that
counts, going out on a high.

1296
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:21,800
Oh daddy, I wasn't even that
good.

1297
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:24,320
Yeah, now I enjoyed it, but it
was freaking good fun.

1298
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:26,520
Don't miss getting up at 3:45,
that's for sure.

1299
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:30,680
Yeah, that'd be a nice
refreshing change being back in

1300
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:33,160
Perth.
Oh, now, now I'm just a now I'm

1301
01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:34,680
just looking at gold
exploration.

1302
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:38,200
Oh.
Oh, love it.

1303
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:40,840
Oh, should we do?
What could we could do?

1304
01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:44,200
Rapid fire, right buddy?
Just to finish it off, just.

1305
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,560
To to finish it off.
Yeah, it's pretty much Jake

1306
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:49,480
Klein stepping down as to non
exact.

1307
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:50,880
Yeah.
So, Jake.

1308
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:54,600
Evolution.
And they had a a pretty record

1309
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:59,200
half one for FY25 evolution.
So literally.

1310
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:00,640
Doubled the dividend I or
something?

1311
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:04,040
They nearly tripled it.
Yeah, no, no huge increase

1312
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:06,120
there.
So it was sort of the, yeah, the

1313
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:10,000
main news which I think was sort
of largely anticipated by the

1314
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:11,880
market.
You know, Jake, the exec chair

1315
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:16,560
moving to non exec chair, you
know, the financial results, you

1316
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:22,000
know, you know, statutory net
profit, $365 million, you know,

1317
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:25,880
underlying EBITDA, you know,
just over a billion, a record

1318
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:29,400
group cash flow 273,000,000 all
up, up, up, up, up.

1319
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:33,320
So that's was all very exciting.
And they announced the seven

1320
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:37,160
cent interim dividend gearing's
down.

1321
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,680
They're sort of targeting to get
that down to 20%.

1322
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:43,240
It's currently 23.
So they're targeting get that

1323
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:48,240
20% by the end of this financial
year guidance, looking all on

1324
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:50,680
track to deliver that for this
financial year.

1325
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:55,960
Just a quick round up of what
happened at HS at this house.

1326
01:12:55,960 --> 01:13:00,160
SoCal got that regulatory
approval to extend the open peer

1327
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:05,200
operations by 10 years and the
overall operations to 2042 FID

1328
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:08,720
the June 25 quarter.
And I think they got an

1329
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:11,800
annualised mining rate of
2,000,000 tonnes.

1330
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:14,920
So that's sort of a $0.25
increase in gold production

1331
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:16,760
there.
Ernest Henry was pretty

1332
01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:20,480
consistent.
N Parks seems to be doing pretty

1333
01:13:20,480 --> 01:13:22,840
well.
They generated $122 million in

1334
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:25,000
cash flow since they bought that
asset.

1335
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:30,240
Red Lake is starting to
demonstrate some operational

1336
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:32,760
consistency.
So they had a a record half year

1337
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:36,800
net mine cash flow, 44 mil gold
production up 38%.

1338
01:13:37,440 --> 01:13:40,240
That Mongari mill expansion,
which you don't sort of see this

1339
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:44,120
everyday, nine months ahead of
schedule and about $15 million

1340
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:45,680
below budget.
There you go.

1341
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,920
How good's that?
Oh, and then Mount Mount Rawdon

1342
01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:51,400
mining ceased.
So that's sort of transitioning

1343
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:56,120
to stockpile processing there.
And we're to come this quarter.

1344
01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:58,640
There's some studies on
extensions at North Park St.

1345
01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:01,880
Ernest Henry.
Saint Barbs.

1346
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:05,040
Yes.
So they're they're saying

1347
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:08,720
goodbye to they would Atlantic
gold operation.

1348
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:11,960
So they announced today their
intention to sort of separate

1349
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:16,200
the Atlantic gold OPS.
So this includes 15 mile Beaver

1350
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:19,640
Dam and Cochrane Hill projects
in Canada from the company

1351
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:23,040
following a portfolio review.
They basically suggested that as

1352
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:26,080
part of that portfolio review
that it you know, would better

1353
01:14:26,080 --> 01:14:30,000
maximise shareholder value by
advancing Atlantic under you

1354
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:34,120
know a Canadian company with
local leadership, you know via

1355
01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:38,800
some sort of a sale or a vending
or a demerger sort of potential

1356
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:45,000
ways to to do that.
So once that is done, their sole

1357
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:49,040
focus would be on their Simberry
operation in the PNG.

1358
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:51,320
So that's it, St.
Barbara will just be Simberry.

1359
01:14:51,480 --> 01:14:53,520
Yeah.
So it's sort of, you know, Guali

1360
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:57,520
and all that went to Genesis
this they've flagged that they

1361
01:14:57,520 --> 01:14:59,520
wanna sort of separate their
landing stuff.

1362
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:03,760
So it's due back to or not back
to, but it's now just Simberry

1363
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:06,840
as you said, so and it's just
quite amazing.

1364
01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:10,800
That's sort of less than six
years ago after acquiring it, I

1365
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:15,840
believe it was for about a
Canadian or about 800 million

1366
01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:20,120
Aussie, I think something like
that and not too much cash

1367
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:22,120
flows.
And now sort of parting ways

1368
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:24,240
with it.
I think their market cap at the

1369
01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:29,000
time of acquiring that asset was
sort of in the mid ones to maybe

1370
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:34,040
load, you know, load 2 billions.
Now it's sort of 300 mil market

1371
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:36,520
cap.
And we'd, you know, a lot's

1372
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:39,960
changed since back then.
They've had a bit of a tough

1373
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:45,120
time the last few months.
So you know, sort of November

1374
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:48,760
when they sort of raised money
and announced that Simbiri

1375
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:50,120
expansion.
They were sort of trading in the

1376
01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:54,320
mid 40s, then to the low 30s,
then fell again to the mid 20s

1377
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:57,160
later in the year when they
received a, a tax assessment

1378
01:15:57,160 --> 01:16:00,360
from the PNG government on
Simbiri, which was sort of

1379
01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:04,000
claiming additional taxes and A
and a penalty in position of

1380
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:08,240
$210 million, which they've
they've rejecting and, and

1381
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:12,680
defending and sort of yeah,
trading in the mid 20s still

1382
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:15,080
today.
You know, they could certainly,

1383
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:19,480
you know, depending on what they
do with the Atlantic assets, you

1384
01:16:19,480 --> 01:16:23,560
know, use that proceeds to sort
of reinvest at Simbiri.

1385
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:27,760
But I don't know who would, who
would buy that?

1386
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:30,400
I'm not sure.
I'm not too familiar with, you

1387
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:34,160
know, they're saying, you know,
a Canadian company summing up

1388
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:37,040
that way should be, you know,
the natural hold of those

1389
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:38,560
assets.
I'm not too familiar with that

1390
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:39,960
part of the world.
So good luck to them.

1391
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:42,840
Yeah.
So interesting to say what

1392
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:47,040
happens with that one.
And to finish on a bit of a

1393
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:49,400
shell.
Yeah, could be a shell too.

1394
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:52,240
Right, but it might be into an
ASX shell, who knows?

1395
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:55,080
So we, yeah, literally, who
knows?

1396
01:16:55,080 --> 01:17:00,200
So we'll we'll keep following
that one and to finish on a bit

1397
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:03,920
of a a bit of a fun note.
We've had there's been a few

1398
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:09,160
small cap gold explorer bolters
this month.

1399
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:14,040
You know, all pretty early stage
stuff from from a few minnows

1400
01:17:14,040 --> 01:17:17,360
around this sort of West
Australian, you know, gold space

1401
01:17:18,040 --> 01:17:21,640
in the last week or so.
But that have, you know, they've

1402
01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:24,360
put some, you know, essay
results and got cops and, you

1403
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:26,600
know, pretty huge share price
reactions so.

1404
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:28,240
Wait, go, go take us through
them.

1405
01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:31,920
This excites me, this stuff.
Yeah, so which is, you know, in

1406
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:38,160
a what do we have 4600 odd buck
an ounce Aussie gold price

1407
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:39,800
environment, It's pretty
exciting stuff.

1408
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:45,040
So, So what happened?
So Ozorim a couple weeks ago

1409
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:49,600
recorded reported some aircore
results at their Mull Gabby N

1410
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,600
Gold project.
One of the hits was 20 metres at

1411
01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:57,920
3.57g a tonne from surface.
They were up over, you know,

1412
01:17:57,920 --> 01:18:01,040
since they announced so over
400% off the back of that

1413
01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:04,200
result.
And you can see here on on a map

1414
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:06,680
from one of their announcements
that they're pretty close to

1415
01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:10,640
Northern Stars, Kara Sudan and
Ramirez's sort of Rebecca Rowe

1416
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:13,840
project.
Another one sort of few days

1417
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:16,480
later on the 7th of Feb,
Kalgoorlie Gold Mining reported

1418
01:18:16,480 --> 01:18:19,960
some air core drill results at
their pingin, which is now

1419
01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:22,160
they're calling Light Horse
prospect.

1420
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:27,240
One of the hits was 17 metres at
4.8g per tonne gold from 48

1421
01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:30,600
metres similar.
You know they had a similar

1422
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:34,560
share price reaction up over
330% since those results.

1423
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:36,760
Our Daya resources are a
shareholder of that.

1424
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:39,600
I think they sub close to 5% the
nickel produces.

1425
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:40,960
Like, oh, there you go, I've
been out.

1426
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:44,760
Of this than the bloody nickel?
And yeah, so they're, they're

1427
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:50,080
apparently 222 kilometres
northwest of Ramirez's Rebecca

1428
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:52,800
Rd. project.
And then they're also 30

1429
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:57,800
kilometres from Ozorum, which we
just talked about now as well.

1430
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,440
The Northern Star and Ramirez
would be like oh geez.

1431
01:19:00,480 --> 01:19:01,640
What?
What's going on here?

1432
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:02,560
Yeah.
Yeah.

1433
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:06,520
And and then finally Caprice,
which is a.

1434
01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:08,880
Ding, Ding, Ding today, ping.
Some up white.

1435
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:12,560
Bloody.
And that was yeah, today.

1436
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:16,680
So they reported some RC essay
results from their Ireland

1437
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:18,600
projects.
So one of their hits was 28

1438
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:25,440
metres at 6.4g per tonne gold
from 114 metres though up over

1439
01:19:25,440 --> 01:19:29,200
100 and something percent today.
And they're very, very close to

1440
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:34,480
Remelius's break of day project.
You can see on one of their maps

1441
01:19:34,480 --> 01:19:36,280
from the announcements.
Yeah.

1442
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:39,280
Maybe Remelius won't need to buy
Karasudam or anything.

1443
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:40,880
Oh yeah, that's why I was quite
funny.

1444
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,360
I was like, oh geez, they're all
like all these three in the last

1445
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:47,760
sort of week and a half all seem
to be around Remelius's asset.

1446
01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:50,280
So, you know, if Spartan doesn't
work out, you know, they might

1447
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:54,240
have some early stage prospects
in the pipeline, but there's.

1448
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:55,960
A couple of other ones too,
Jason.

1449
01:19:55,960 --> 01:19:59,280
Yeah, oh God, I'm sure there's
plenty, but I know it's.

1450
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:01,240
Great.
When they've gone up to 100%

1451
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:03,040
I'll be proud.
Ding, Ding, Ding.

1452
01:20:03,480 --> 01:20:07,040
I love it, but no, it's great
to, you know, obviously all this

1453
01:20:07,040 --> 01:20:09,560
is pretty early stage stuff, but
it's, it's great to see some,

1454
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:13,200
some positive activity sort of
heading down into the, you know,

1455
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:17,520
the early stage explorer curve
of the development cycle in, in

1456
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:18,600
WA.
So it's awesome.

1457
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:21,160
How good is it?
Oh, that was a bloody marathon.

1458
01:20:21,160 --> 01:20:25,040
I think I waffled on with
absolute shit, but it's just, I

1459
01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:27,600
get so excited and it's like
underground lighting.

1460
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:29,240
I love it.
I just love it.

1461
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:31,640
Oh, and I'm sure the money
miners would have loved it as

1462
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:34,200
well.
I've so just as much as you love

1463
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:38,000
MMS and.
I love Underground Operators

1464
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:39,520
conference.
And grounded.

1465
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:41,680
Oh who else do I love?
JC.

1466
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:44,400
Sambic Ground.
Support oh CR insurance I love

1467
01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:47,760
them K Drill, I love K.
Drill saltbush contracting at

1468
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:49,000
the top of the show on.
The Mill.

1469
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:52,080
SWIG.
Love, swig, Love diamond drills.

1470
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:56,800
Kotro Project Engineering, Love
Jeremy and Cross boundary

1471
01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:59,240
energy.
Oh, I love Tim Taylor Hurduru

1472
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:00,640
buddy miners.
Hurry.

1473
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:03,680
Information contained in this
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1474
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:05,720
general nature only and does not
take into account the

1475
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:09,320
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or needs of any particular

1476
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:11,400
person.
Before making any investment

1477
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:14,440
decision, you should consult
with your financial advisor and

1478
01:21:14,440 --> 01:21:17,560
consider how appropriate the
advice is to your objectives,

1479
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:19,760
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