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Value of US$430,000 was added by reducing dilution and misclassification and recovering more ore

Value of US$430,000 was added by reducing dilution and misclassification and recovering more ore

Blast Movement Technologies 2 / 67 Bluestone Circuit Seventeen Mile Rocks Queensland, 4073 office@bmt.com.au AUSTRALIA www.bmt.com.au 08/2017 Commodity Ore Grades Geology Powder Factor Location Gold High and low Disseminated Sulphide 1.15 kg/m 3 Russia This disseminated gold mine is one of the top producing open-pit mines in Russia. ? Mineralisation is disseminated in sedimentary schists and shales ? Blasts are fired in a 10 metre bench ? The site contains high grade (3.5 g/t) and low grade ores Substantial movement of ore is not monitored or accounted for BMM System accurately translated post-blast dig lines ? Dilution, with tonnes of waste being treated as ore ? Misclassification of ore (i.e. high grade ore is stockpiled a

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