DRDGOLD is considering mining in central Johannesburg where it hopes to recover about 4 tons of gold from a dump currently host to a drive-in cinema.
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Graulich declined to put an economic value on the resource estimated to contain about 5.1 million tons of material at an average grade of 0.78 grams/ton.
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“It’s always been a marginal dump. But at the current gold price, you could probably get a profit,” said Nick Goodwin, a gold analyst for stockbroker T-Sec.
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Retreatment of gold dumps has served DRDGOLD well in the past,
but analysts were concerned at the decline in production from nearly all the company’s assets [Blockierte Grafik: http://www.smiliemania.de/smilie132/00000116.gif]
during the December quarter.
Steve Shepherd, an analyst for JP Morgan, said DRDGOLD’s decision to report 100% contributions from CGR and ERPM was unusual. “For what it is worth, we think the practice of showing 100% of production as attributable, when ownership is at 85%, to be questionable,” he said.
ERPM showed a one third increase in gold output in the December quarter which including 40% ownership by DRDGOLD in October and November, and 100% ownership in December. “The reality is that ERPM production, on a like-for-like basis was down 9% at 26,460 oz,” Shepherd said.
“Underground production was 15% down at 18,551 due to a cocktail of engineering problems,” he said.
In total, DRDGOLD reported a 4% production decline in the December period to 130,547 oz. Reporting more production from the South African operations helped offset heavy declines at the Papua New Guinea mines Porgera, and Tolukuma.
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