The Abujar Deposit is located within a NNE-SSW orientated body of granitoid migmatite and is hosted within in an interpreted regional shear structure. This is then enclosed within two mica granite bodies of similar interpreted orientation which are regionally referred to as granodiorites. The lithologies of Proterozoic age which are present inside the Project include:
- Migmatitic granitoids (Eburnean) associated with syntectonic granites; they can belong to either the metamorphic or the magmatic domain depending on the intensity of melting. They occur in the central portion of the property;
- Metamorphosed rhyolite (Eburnean) of pyroclastic origin. They occur as relics within two mica granites and consist mainly of quartz phenocrysts inside glass. They are found as light coloured banks showing mainly muscovite corresponding most probably to pyroclastic rhyolitic flows;

Schists are divided into two groups:
- Argillic schist: are always weathered with mottled texture and crosscut by quartz veins; and
- Two-mica (+ staurolite and andalusite) schist: - consist of biotite and muscovite with minor andalusite, which is a common mineral of contact metamorphism. This rock occurs at the contact with two-mica granite bodies in the central area of the property.

Two styles of deformation are interpreted to be present within the drill cores at Abujar; these include both ductile deformation and brittle deformation. The gold mineralisation is interp ........

The Project involves the development of a truck-and-shovel, open-pit mine using conventional metalliferous mining techniques. The key aspects of the site layout for the AG deposit and main complex, include the north pit, the larger main pit, and a number of smaller south pits as well as the four waste dumps – one adjacent to the north pit, two adjacent to the main pit, and one adjacent to the south pit, a ROM pad and low-grade stockpile. Additionally the APG satellite deposit is located 9 km to the south along strike and consists of a cluster of satellite pits, and three small waste dumps.

A production rate study was completed as part of the initial project definition phase. Within Geovia Whittle 4X software, RPM examined production rate options ranging from 2 Mtpa to 4 Mtpa, in 0.5 Mtpa increments. In conjunction with Tietto, the 4.0 Mtpa ore production rate was selected as it best met corporate objectives for cash flow and mining life. The SMU was selected on the basis of an ore loss and dilution study. The Resource model was converted to a mining model by regularising the blocks to a smallest mining unit (SMU) of 2.5 (X), 6.25 (Y), 2.5 (Z) to account for loss and dilution. The SMU size was selected based on the structure of the mineralisation, proposed mining method and grade control practises, excavator size and proposed mining bench and flitch height.

The SMU size selected assumes mining two 2.5 m flitches, with a 5 m bench height for blasts contain ........

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