Summary - G-Resources
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<strong>Summary</strong><br />
G-<strong>Resources</strong> Group Limited is pleased to advise that continued significant<br />
progress has been made since the last project update on 19 October 2010.<br />
In summary:<br />
Construction:<br />
Leighton Asia has been awarded the plant site earthworks contract and work<br />
commenced in October 2010, with access to the plant site being achieved in<br />
mid November 2010 and bulk material movements by mid-December 2010.<br />
Tailing Storage Facility (“TSF”) construction is expected to commence in February<br />
2011.<br />
Leighton Asia has mobilized five mining equipment fleets for the plant site earthworks<br />
and mine development work. Works underway include haul road construction,<br />
pre-stripping of construction areas bulk earthworks at the plant site and<br />
TSF preparations works. A further two fleets are due on site in early February<br />
2011;<br />
Design and Engineering:<br />
The EPCM contractor, Ausenco Limited, has completed more than 85% of engineering<br />
works.<br />
The design of the earthworks for the tailings storage facility is complete and<br />
clearing and grubbing works along the centre line of the dam wall are complete<br />
with works on the wider dam footprint area about to commence.<br />
The formal approval for the TSF has been received from the Minister of Public<br />
Works.<br />
General:<br />
The project now has more than 1,200 employees and contractors working at the<br />
Martabe mine site in construction, operations and exploration.<br />
The G-<strong>Resources</strong> Owner’s Project delivery team is now fully mobilized at site.<br />
Key appointments in the Operations team, including Processing Manager, Mine<br />
Manager, Commercial Manager and Supply Chain Manager have been made.<br />
Exploration and <strong>Resources</strong>:<br />
Ramba Joring resource update was released on 28 October 2010.<br />
Drilling identified a new gold mineralized prospect, Horas, during the period and<br />
first results announced were on 13 December 2010.<br />
Exploration drilling is continuing with five drill rigs on site.<br />
24 January 2011<br />
S E H K 1 0 5 1<br />
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S h a r e s O u t s t a n d i n g :<br />
14,066,831,950<br />
M a r k e t C a p :<br />
HKD 8,440,099,170<br />
5 2 W e e k R a n g e :<br />
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I n v e s t o r R e l a t i o n s C o n t a c t<br />
investor-relations@g-resources.com<br />
Leeanne Chan<br />
Investor Relations Manager<br />
E: leeanne.chan@g-resources.com<br />
M: +852 6627 7782<br />
G-<strong>Resources</strong> | www.g-resources.com
Engineering<br />
Engineering works for the project have now advanced to greater than 85%<br />
complete. The engineering office in Brisbane has commenced ramping<br />
down resources and is due to be completed by the end of March 2011.<br />
The final design for the TSF embankment and all earthworks is complete,<br />
with activities now focused on commencing construction at Martabe.<br />
The Minister of Public Works has approved the design and construction of<br />
the TSF.<br />
Our core GREAT values are:<br />
Contracts and<br />
Construction<br />
Progress<br />
As previously announced, the 5 1/2 year mining contract was awarded to Leighton on 26 July 2010. As there<br />
are significant synergies between the early mining works, the plant site earthworks and the TSF, Leighton has<br />
also been awarded the contract for the plant site earthworks and the tailings storage facility.<br />
Leighton has mobilized five mining fleets plus other equipment to the Martabe Project site (see photographs on<br />
the Company’s website www.g-resources.com), with the fleets for the TSF construction due to arrive soon.<br />
Civil work has continued on a number of fronts, including full access to the TSF, the completion of the explosives<br />
storage and preparation plant area, access roads to infrastructure facilities, full access development to<br />
the plant site as well as commencement of the bulk earthworks at the plant site.<br />
The camp and messing facilities have been completed and Leighton’s own long term facilities for the mining<br />
contract have also been completed and are now occupied.<br />
Duta Graha Indah (“DGI”) had already been awarded earthworks and roadworks associated with the development<br />
for the third and final stage of the camp accommodation facilities and the construction of the water diversion<br />
structures. DGI has now also been awarded the design and construction of the sedimentation dam control<br />
structures.
Schedule and Milestones<br />
The project remains on schedule to meet the target to produce first gold bullion in Q4 2011.<br />
Exploration and <strong>Resources</strong><br />
A new Resource Statement for Ramba Joring was announced on 28 October 2010. Significantly this resource statement<br />
converted 90% of the Ramba Joring resource from Inferred category to the higher confidence category of Indicated.<br />
The total resource for Ramba Joring is now 1.23 million ounces of gold and 5.02 million ounces of silver which<br />
will add significantly to the mine life. Work on a mining reserve statement for Ramba Joring is currently underway.<br />
On 13 December 2010 the Company announced first drilling results from a new mineral prospect near to the mine, the<br />
Horas prospect. Three holes within this newly identified<br />
zone of mineralization returned significant results,<br />
viz 48.2 m @ 3.14 g/t Au, 22.6 m @ 1.25 g/t<br />
Au, and 29.2 m @ 1.27 g/t Au.<br />
Exploration continues at Martabe and across the<br />
Company’s 1,639 square kilometres Contract of<br />
Work area. Five drill rigs are operating at Martabe<br />
completing resource definition work at Tor Uluala<br />
and exploration at Ramba Joring and Horas Encouraging<br />
alteration and potential mineralisation<br />
has been encountered in all areas; assay results<br />
are awaited. Drill targets have been defined in<br />
three regional prospects and preparations for drilling<br />
are underway.
Human <strong>Resources</strong><br />
A number of key individuals have been recruited in the last 3 months,<br />
including a Senior Mining Manager, Mr. Noel Rollo, who has more<br />
than 25 years mining experience including working in Asia in similar<br />
environments to Martabe; a Senior Processing Manager, Mr. Alan<br />
Downham, with more than 20 years experience especially in gold<br />
operations and start up of gold processing plants; a Senior Commercial<br />
Manager, Chris Stephenson, with more than 25 years experience<br />
and more than 10 years in the mining industry in Asia including the<br />
last 4 years in Indonesia, and a Supply Chain Manager, Mr. Des<br />
O’Hare, with more than 20 years in the construction and mining industries<br />
and more than 10 years in mining in Indonesia.<br />
The Company has also fully mobilized its “Owners” Project Management<br />
team at Martabe, under the leadership of Mr. Graeme Walsh<br />
whose appointment was announced in the last quarterly update.<br />
About Martabe<br />
The Martabe project is located on the western side of the Indonesian<br />
island of Sumatra in the Province of North Sumatra, in the Batangtoru sub-district. The<br />
project is established under a sixth generation Contract of Work (“COW”) which was signed in April<br />
1997.<br />
The COW defines all of the terms, conditions and obligations of both G-<strong>Resources</strong> and the Government<br />
of Indonesia for the life of the COW. Martabe with a resource base of 6.5Moz gold and 66Moz silver is<br />
G-<strong>Resources</strong> Group’s core starter asset, around which a globally competitive, Asia-Pacific focused gold<br />
company will be built. Already in construction, Martabe is expected to commence production in the last<br />
quarter of 2011 at a rate of 250,000 oz/a of gold and 2-3 million oz/a of silver at an anticipated low cash<br />
cost of US$280/oz of gold.<br />
G-<strong>Resources</strong> is seeking to rapidly grow production to more than one million ounces of gold annually<br />
through exploration of the large and highly prospective COW area and through acquisition of other quality<br />
gold assets. The Martabe project enjoys the strong support of the Indonesian Central, Provincial and<br />
Local Governments and the nearby communities of Batangtoru.