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  20. 0:36On the program today, we've got a
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  22. 0:40Mr. Mark English is on the podcast.
  23. 0:43Mark is the managing director of Auric
  24. 0:45Mining, a Western Australia focused gold
  25. 0:48producer, project developer, and
  26. 0:50explorer with projects in the Kalgoorlie
  27. 0:52and Norseman regions of Western
  28. 0:54Australia's goldfields including the
  29. 0:57operating conventional open pit Munda
  30. 0:59gold mine, the Lindsay's mine
  31. 1:01development project, and exploration
  32. 1:04projects including Spargoville,
  33. 1:06Higginsville, Loaded Dog, and Chalice
  34. 1:08West.
  35. 1:09Auric Mining also holds the Burbanks
  36. 1:11processing facility, which is expected
  37. 1:13to provide an in-house processing
  38. 1:15facility in the coming years.
  39. 1:17Auric Mining is listed on the Australian
  40. 1:19Securities Exchange under the symbol A W
  41. 1:23J.
  42. 1:24Mark, thank you for coming back to
  43. 1:25update. Welcome.
  44. 1:27My pleasure, Andrew. Great to be with
  45. 1:29you.
  46. 1:30Yeah, Mark, great to have you back, and
  47. 1:32you guys have been busy with production.
  48. 1:35Guys are taking advantage of a great
  49. 1:36gold price here to capture some good
  50. 1:39capital and moving this company forward
  51. 1:41on a number of fronts including
  52. 1:43operations and also on developments and
  53. 1:45exploration as well.
  54. 1:47Well, why don't we get into company
  55. 1:48updates here first, Mark, and we'll come
  56. 1:50back to the market here a little bit
  57. 1:52later, but you guys have completed the
  58. 1:54starter pit shipments from the Munda
  59. 1:57gold mine with processing and gold sales
  60. 2:01completing during February.
  61. 2:03Talk about this progress on Munda so
  62. 2:05far, and also what you see as the next
  63. 2:07steps on operations at Munda.
  64. 2:10Thanks, Andrew. Yes, we completed mining
  65. 2:13the starter pit. We decided that we
  66. 2:15would do a starter pit to make sure that
  67. 2:17we understood the project, understood
  68. 2:19the resource better than just drilling.
  69. 2:22We did a starter pit. We've moved around
  70. 2:24a million tons of dirt. Um we produced
  71. 2:27about 125,000 tons of ore.
  72. 2:31We've now completed that on the 26th of
  73. 2:33January.
  74. 2:34We've done one parcel through the
  75. 2:36Lakewood mill in November, and you've
  76. 2:39seen the cash come through for that in
  77. 2:41our quarterly report, in our December
  78. 2:43report.
  79. 2:44We are still tracking um campaign two.
  80. 2:47We started processing at that mill again
  81. 2:49on the 26th of January.
  82. 2:51The timeline's about 3 weeks to process
  83. 2:54it. Um and it is our expectation to
  84. 2:57produce around 3,000 oz of gold out of
  85. 3:00campaign two.
  86. 3:02With that, as you guys complete campaign
  87. 3:05two, and that wraps up, uh looks like
  88. 3:07we'll have cash flow coming in sometime
  89. 3:10late February, possibly in early March
  90. 3:12to finish up there. What do you see as
  91. 3:14next steps there as far as where you
  92. 3:16guys want to go next as far as
  93. 3:18operations at Munda, and just give us a
  94. 3:20little bit of an outlook uh for the rest
  95. 3:22of the year at Munda.
  96. 3:24Yeah, Andrew, you're right. We will
  97. 3:26produce cash in last week of February,
  98. 3:29and then again there will be further
  99. 3:30cash payments in March this year. We'll
  100. 3:33do our first gold pour most probably
  101. 3:35tomorrow or Wednesday. Then it gets
  102. 3:38shipped to the refinery, um and then it
  103. 3:40takes about 10 days or so to sell the
  104. 3:42gold.
  105. 3:43So, once we've finished that work, and
  106. 3:46we've got all the data and information
  107. 3:48back from the mill,
  108. 3:50say by mid-March, we'll then reconcile
  109. 3:53what we expected to produce from our
  110. 3:56internal records and the actual results
  111. 3:58that we got back from the mill.
  112. 3:59We'll then look at the resource model.
  113. 4:01We will redo the resource model. Of
  114. 4:03course, the last resource model we did
  115. 4:05at Munda was way back in 2023.
  116. 4:09So, we need to update that with both the
  117. 4:12data and information that we get as well
  118. 4:14as the rapidly changing gold price.
  119. 4:17It is our desire then to start planning
  120. 4:20Munda to get into full-scale mining in
  121. 4:232027.
  122. 4:25We will have to redo our mine plans, our
  123. 4:28mine proposal, and our mine closure
  124. 4:30plans with the government department,
  125. 4:31with Australian government department.
  126. 4:34They say that they need 6 months to
  127. 4:36approve those plans in this current
  128. 4:38market. So, if we lodge that, say around
  129. 4:40near the 1st of April, mid-April
  130. 4:42sometime, we should get our permits by
  131. 4:45late October, early November. And it's
  132. 4:48our aim, with all things being equal, to
  133. 4:51start mining Munda in the full pit in Q1
  134. 4:542027.
  135. 4:56Thank you for walking us through that.
  136. 4:58So, we have some things to look forward
  137. 4:59to here on that front. And then with
  138. 5:02that, just remind the audience, there's
  139. 5:04probably some new folks that are
  140. 5:05listening in for the first time.
  141. 5:07As you guys look to scale up to full
  142. 5:09operation, this will be ongoing for a
  143. 5:12number of years.
  144. 5:14What is your thought as far as once you
  145. 5:15guys get up and running, kinks are done
  146. 5:18and out, and steady state, you know,
  147. 5:20what would be a rough expectation where
  148. 5:23you guys would be landing on, say,
  149. 5:25annual gold production from Munda?
  150. 5:28Excellent question, Andrew.
  151. 5:30With the rapidly changing gold price,
  152. 5:32you know, that target can move a lot. Of
  153. 5:35course, with a higher gold price, you're
  154. 5:37going to build a bigger pit.
  155. 5:38You're going to increase your resource
  156. 5:40because of again the economics.
  157. 5:43But it's our desire to get to be a 25 to
  158. 5:4630,000 oz producer per annum fairly
  159. 5:50quickly. We think that's achievable at
  160. 5:52Munda. Munda's quite a large resource.
  161. 5:54It's got about 3.6 million tons in it at
  162. 5:57a
  163. 5:58grade of about 1.23
  164. 6:00for a resource around 145,000 oz of
  165. 6:03gold. Of course, once you mine it, you
  166. 6:06don't take all the ounces out of it. But
  167. 6:08Andrew, given the gold price and what
  168. 6:10has happened since we last did that
  169. 6:12work, we will conduct further
  170. 6:15development and exploration expansion
  171. 6:18drilling at Munda.
  172. 6:19Um and we believe that there is a high
  173. 6:22probability that we can increase the
  174. 6:24size of that resource.
  175. 6:26Yeah, I think that's important to point
  176. 6:27out with this current price, you guys
  177. 6:30look to add in a few ounces that may
  178. 6:33have been cut off with the mine plan.
  179. 6:35And then of course, uh maybe there's
  180. 6:37some areas you guys may also, as you
  181. 6:39cash flow up a bit here,
  182. 6:41check a few other areas within that
  183. 6:42project to see what else can be had
  184. 6:45there. So, looking forward to seeing
  185. 6:47some of the progress on that, and of
  186. 6:48course, the permitting coming in. I
  187. 6:50think that's the next major milestone is
  188. 6:51that uh that permitting hurdle, and
  189. 6:53hopefully the government's on time with
  190. 6:55getting that done so you guys can get to
  191. 6:57work on that operation. So, I appreciate
  192. 7:00that. With that, you touched a little
  193. 7:02bit on some cash received for the
  194. 7:04quarter ending 31 December 2025.
  195. 7:07Um those results have come out. Just any
  196. 7:10highlights that you'd like to talk about
  197. 7:12in those operational results, and maybe
  198. 7:15some of your expectations looking
  199. 7:16forward.
  200. 7:18Our results in the December quarter were
  201. 7:20very strong for a small market cap like
  202. 7:23Auric. Auric still has a market cap
  203. 7:25around near $57 million. So, we're we're
  204. 7:28in a small category at this point in
  205. 7:30time. We've banked about $18.5 million
  206. 7:33in revenue from gold sales. The direct
  207. 7:36operating costs, and by that I mean
  208. 7:38trucking and milling and royalties, were
  209. 7:41around 6 million. So, Auric banked about
  210. 7:44$12 million in the December quarter back
  211. 7:47into our coffers, which basically repaid
  212. 7:50all the working capital. Our working
  213. 7:52capital spend, Andrew, for mining from
  214. 7:55the 1st of May through to the end of
  215. 7:57December was around 1.25
  216. 8:01million dollars a month. So, our opex
  217. 8:03burn was around $7-8 million. So, we've
  218. 8:06cashed up. You would have seen in the
  219. 8:08quarterly, Andrew, that we had around a
  220. 8:10bit below $7 million cash at bank as at
  221. 8:14the 31st of December.
  222. 8:16And it's our expectation, as I said a
  223. 8:18bit earlier, to produce around 3,000 oz
  224. 8:21of gold out of campaign two. Let's say
  225. 8:23you use an Aussie gold price of $7,000
  226. 8:26an oz. Now, that's another $21 million
  227. 8:29in gross revenue.
  228. 8:31Again, your direct out-of-pocket
  229. 8:33expenses will be about the same, around
  230. 8:366.5 to 7 million dollars. So, we could
  231. 8:39add about 15 million net cash to our
  232. 8:42bank account between now and the end of
  233. 8:44March, which would get us up to cash at
  234. 8:47bank around near somewhere between 18
  235. 8:50and 21 million dollars cash at bank by
  236. 8:52the 31st of March.
  237. 8:54Good to build up a bit of cash here as
  238. 8:56you guys come into bigger operations,
  239. 8:57and then also look at some exploration
  240. 8:59work as well, which I know we'll talk
  241. 9:01about here in just a moment. Before we
  242. 9:02do, I want to shift over to Burbanks
  243. 9:05processing plant.
  244. 9:07Um ongoing evaluation to look at a
  245. 9:10potential return to operation
  246. 9:12approximately 2028.
  247. 9:14Any updates for us on progress there at
  248. 9:16Burbanks and permitting work to get
  249. 9:18Burbanks up and turning?
  250. 9:21Yeah, Andrew, we actually had the first
  251. 9:23detailed discussion on it on Friday
  252. 9:26afternoon. So, your listeners might
  253. 9:28recall that we settled on Burbanks on
  254. 9:31the 30th of September. Um December and
  255. 9:33January is always pretty quiet in
  256. 9:35Australia. It's a summer holiday in
  257. 9:38Australia.
  258. 9:39So, everybody's back at work now.
  259. 9:42So, we had our first discussion Friday
  260. 9:45afternoon. We'll get the first
  261. 9:46preliminary numbers from the engineering
  262. 9:50and development team. We hope to get
  263. 9:52that Tuesday, Wednesday this week.
  264. 9:55We'll then look at those, and then we
  265. 9:56hope to have another meeting naturally
  266. 9:58in the week starting the 9th of
  267. 10:00February. And then we got to refine and
  268. 10:03start to make decisions about what we
  269. 10:05want to do. It's going to be a quite a
  270. 10:08large project for us. Um, it will take
  271. 10:11all of 2026 and most probably part of
  272. 10:132027. Um, but Andrew, we want to be in a
  273. 10:16position where we can control our own
  274. 10:19destiny. We want to be in a position
  275. 10:21where we can design our mine plan and
  276. 10:23feed our own ore into the mill, process
  277. 10:26it, and have control of the whole
  278. 10:28operating procedure.
  279. 10:30I think it's also fair to say, given the
  280. 10:32current gold price, toll milling
  281. 10:34facilities in the gold fields region,
  282. 10:37uh, are becoming very scarce. Price of
  283. 10:40gold where it is, anybody that's got any
  284. 10:41resource that's been stocked on a ROM
  285. 10:44pad somewhere is going to be looking for
  286. 10:46a home. So, it's going to be a strategic
  287. 10:50thing for Oraec to be able to develop
  288. 10:52Burbanks.
  289. 10:54Um, and that's one of our key drivers
  290. 10:55and key visions that we need to develop
  291. 10:58this year and early next year.
  292. 11:01That's excellent. Well, I thought it was
  293. 11:03a good opportunistic thing to do was to
  294. 11:05acquire this facility and then look at,
  295. 11:07uh, as cash flow allows and it makes
  296. 11:10sense get this facility back up and
  297. 11:12running. Mark, in the future, just with
  298. 11:14Burbanks, you know, as you guys get it
  299. 11:16up and running and it satisfies your
  300. 11:19needs from an Oraec operational
  301. 11:21standpoint, would there be any potential
  302. 11:23for you guys to look at allowing toll
  303. 11:26processing, uh, by others at the
  304. 11:28facility?
  305. 11:29There will be a possibility. The first
  306. 11:32thing that we have to decide with the
  307. 11:34with our advisers and and consultants is
  308. 11:38the size of the development. So,
  309. 11:41Burbanks at this point in time is
  310. 11:43licensed for around 180,000 ton per
  311. 11:46annum plant. That's too small. Okay? In
  312. 11:50the current OPEX costs, that would not
  313. 11:52be viable. So, we have to work out what
  314. 11:56size we build, whether you go up to
  315. 11:58500,000, 600,000,
  316. 12:01something like that. And then also
  317. 12:04whether you can stage it. And you can
  318. 12:06sort of get it up and running so that
  319. 12:08you can process 300,000 tons going
  320. 12:11through the mill fairly quickly, and
  321. 12:13then have capacity to add scale to it to
  322. 12:16build that facility up. With our Munda
  323. 12:19project, we would be able to keep it
  324. 12:21fairly full, but certainly we need
  325. 12:24additional resources to keep it 100%
  326. 12:28occupied.
  327. 12:29I think the phased approach makes the
  328. 12:31most sense here. So, I think you guys
  329. 12:32have the right plan of action there with
  330. 12:34respect to that. So, looking forward to
  331. 12:36seeing that advance, that initial
  332. 12:38startup going processing for Oraec, and
  333. 12:41then you guys look to a phased
  334. 12:43expansion, and then excess capacity gets
  335. 12:45filled potentially by toll processing.
  336. 12:47So, great plan on that front, Mark.
  337. 12:49Looking forward to seeing you guys
  338. 12:50advance that. Well, let's shift over to
  339. 12:54exploration work. Cover the plans for us
  340. 12:57there at, uh, Higginsville, Spargoville,
  341. 13:00Loaded Dog. Um, any plans there? What
  342. 13:02would be the priority plan if you guys,
  343. 13:05you know, if you're going to get
  344. 13:06something done on the exploration front
  345. 13:08this year, where would you go? And then
  346. 13:11also the timing to get on the ground and
  347. 13:13work that priority project, or maybe
  348. 13:16you're going to attack more than one.
  349. 13:18We're most probably going to attack more
  350. 13:20than one fairly quickly. It's our vision
  351. 13:23to put the foot on the accelerator and
  352. 13:24go pretty hard. In the current commodity
  353. 13:27market, gold market, we need to, um,
  354. 13:29speed up our work.
  355. 13:31We've actually completed in the December
  356. 13:34quarter the heritage surveys required
  357. 13:36with the traditional owners at
  358. 13:38Higginsville and Loaded Dog. We've
  359. 13:40already got clearance at Spargoville, so
  360. 13:43we've done that previously.
  361. 13:45We've engaged the operators to go in and
  362. 13:48start to clear the drill pads, and we
  363. 13:50intend to do that later this month.
  364. 13:53We've booked the drill rigs to go out
  365. 13:55there and start in April this year.
  366. 13:58Um, so it's our desire to have
  367. 14:00one or two teams operating at both
  368. 14:03Higginsville {slash} Loaded Dog and at
  369. 14:05Spargoville in Q2 this year.
  370. 14:09Well, looking forward to seeing that. I
  371. 14:10think that provides you guys having that
  372. 14:13exploration kicker with the operational
  373. 14:15cash flows coming out of Munda. I think
  374. 14:17that's a great way to approach this,
  375. 14:18especially in this market. And resource
  376. 14:21add to the portfolio, I think will be
  377. 14:23well rewarded as we continue down the
  378. 14:26road here within this gold market. So,
  379. 14:28appreciate that, Mark, and looking
  380. 14:29forward to seeing you guys get on the
  381. 14:31ground there and get the drills turning.
  382. 14:33With that, why don't we shift over to
  383. 14:37updates on the Lindsay's gold project,
  384. 14:40um, as far as getting remaining
  385. 14:42tenements secured. Uh, just any update
  386. 14:44on that front.
  387. 14:47Yeah, that's held us back. It's been a
  388. 14:49bit of a problem. Um, it's a problem not
  389. 14:51of our making. We, uh, executed the
  390. 14:55agreement to buy that project in
  391. 14:56February 2025.
  392. 14:59Your listeners may recall we settled on
  393. 15:01three of the seven tenements.
  394. 15:03We've taken control and management of
  395. 15:05the largest tenement in the Warden's
  396. 15:07Court. Um, the next hearing date of
  397. 15:11filing of evidence is the 20th of
  398. 15:13February.
  399. 15:14We hope that the evidence filed will
  400. 15:17move it on to a stage where we can
  401. 15:19complete that acquisition. Look at stage
  402. 15:22this. The plaintiff has to lodgies, um,
  403. 15:26documentation by the 20th of Feb. I
  404. 15:28think our response date 7th, 8th of
  405. 15:30March, and then there's a hearing date
  406. 15:32sometime in April. We're very confident
  407. 15:35that we're going to win, but of course,
  408. 15:37you can never say never in, um,
  409. 15:39legal matters. But it's our desire to
  410. 15:43get working on there. We've actually had
  411. 15:44people up on the ground, um, couple of
  412. 15:46weeks ago doing some preliminary work up
  413. 15:49at Lindsay's.
  414. 15:50And, you know, Andrew, it's our second
  415. 15:53major project after Munda. It's the
  416. 15:55project that we want to get, uh,
  417. 15:57operational.
  418. 15:59Uh, it's a project that we believe that
  419. 16:00we can get mining quickly, and again
  420. 16:03start operations and producing gold. So,
  421. 16:06we're very keen and focused to resolve
  422. 16:08these issues in the Warden's Court, um,
  423. 16:11so that we can get Lindsay's operational
  424. 16:14this year.
  425. 16:16Assuming that we do get everything
  426. 16:18settled, and it sounds like you're
  427. 16:20pretty confident that things would be
  428. 16:22resolved potentially this year, 2026.
  429. 16:25Let's just say it did stretch towards
  430. 16:27the end of the year on getting
  431. 16:28everything resolved. What do you think
  432. 16:30would be the time frame to get to first
  433. 16:34ore ready to go or even first production
  434. 16:37of gold? What would you say there just
  435. 16:39on that front?
  436. 16:40Look, Andrew, another excellent
  437. 16:43question. We would anticipate
  438. 16:46being able to get it into production
  439. 16:48within 6 months of settlement. Okay?
  440. 16:52We've got work that we're doing now
  441. 16:54behind the scenes, uh, work that we're
  442. 16:56doing with with the relevant technical
  443. 16:58people.
  444. 17:00We want to be able to mine it. So,
  445. 17:02Lindsay's is a very simple simple
  446. 17:05business. It's the gold is visible.
  447. 17:09Um, it's quite easy simple mining
  448. 17:10operation.
  449. 17:12The trick will be having a home to get
  450. 17:14it into a mill.
  451. 17:16It's always It was always our desire to
  452. 17:18move our team from Munda virtually
  453. 17:21straight to Lindsay's and to be able to
  454. 17:23develop the ore, complete it in the
  455. 17:25Burbanks in 2027.
  456. 17:28Yeah, it has slid. Um, we can't do
  457. 17:31anything about that, but it is still our
  458. 17:34view and our desire to get Lindsay's
  459. 17:36into operational later this year so that
  460. 17:39we can start to build up some ore on our
  461. 17:42ROM pad at Lindsay's for delivery to the
  462. 17:45Burbanks mill or another mill in 2027.
  463. 17:4927, late 27 is is a target still. I
  464. 17:52think that's a good one to have. At
  465. 17:54least you guys will be busy with
  466. 17:56operations at Munda. It'd be nice to get
  467. 17:59this going as soon as possible for
  468. 18:00obvious reasons, but the pipeline looks
  469. 18:03pretty good, and there is a bit of slack
  470. 18:04left. So, I appreciate you, uh, looking
  471. 18:07at this and continuing to have this as a
  472. 18:08major focus to move forward as soon as
  473. 18:10possible, and the good thing is Munda
  474. 18:12will be providing that cash flow in the
  475. 18:15meantime and keep the crew occupied, so
  476. 18:18to speak, for the time being. And then
  477. 18:19also to be able to get material over to
  478. 18:22Burbanks rather than having to take it
  479. 18:23somewhere else is a good plus, even if
  480. 18:26it's a little bit of a stock pile for a
  481. 18:28time being. Just coming back briefly to
  482. 18:30the administrative side, we did talk
  483. 18:32about cash on hand, quarterly report
  484. 18:34details there.
  485. 18:36Uh, we do have payments, cash flows
  486. 18:38coming for the company in February and
  487. 18:40also into March. Just talk a little bit
  488. 18:43about where we stand on capital
  489. 18:45structure as far as current shares
  490. 18:47outstanding, Mark, and of course, the
  491. 18:49key shareholders.
  492. 18:51So, we're still fairly small issued
  493. 18:54capital. We have just below 190 million
  494. 18:56shares on issue. So, it's still pretty
  495. 19:00tight. Our top 20 still controls a bit
  496. 19:02above 50% of the issued capital.
  497. 19:05We have one large substantial
  498. 19:08shareholder whose name is Jeffrey
  499. 19:09Barkoff. Um, he's in Melbourne. He owns
  500. 19:13about 8% of the business. The directors
  501. 19:16collectively, the three directors, Steve
  502. 19:18Morris, John Utley, and myself hold
  503. 19:21about 12%. So, between the four of us,
  504. 19:24we've got, you know, 20 odd percent or
  505. 19:26thereabouts. There's a couple of other
  506. 19:28key shareholders that are friends of
  507. 19:31mine. We have two small funds on our
  508. 19:34register. Both the Lao Fund and the Debt
  509. 19:36Capital Fund have got small positions in
  510. 19:39Oraec, not not large by any stretch of
  511. 19:42the imagination. But in the last raise
  512. 19:44that we did in May last year, both Debt
  513. 19:47Debt Capital and Lao came onto our
  514. 19:49register. They're very supportive with
  515. 19:51us. I make sure that I catch up with
  516. 19:54them two or three times a year. And it's
  517. 19:56always our desire and goal, Andrew, like
  518. 19:58every business to to grow that
  519. 20:00institutional base.
  520. 20:02I think until we get our market cap up
  521. 20:05closer to a 100 million market cap, most
  522. 20:07of those institutions won't come and
  523. 20:09take a position because we're too small.
  524. 20:12So, it's our goal to sort of work the
  525. 20:14business up. If we if we keep generating
  526. 20:17cash, keep building our ounces, have a
  527. 20:20clear strategy on Burbanks. You know,
  528. 20:23those three key drivers, I think will
  529. 20:25move the business to that next level.
  530. 20:28And then we'll be able to get some
  531. 20:29smaller institutions under our register.
  532. 20:33Yeah, I think that makes sense, Mark. I
  533. 20:35appreciate you walking through that. And
  534. 20:36you guys have skin in the game, I think
  535. 20:39as you guys start to get a little bit
  536. 20:40more attention and traction as this
  537. 20:42market progresses and you guys hit on
  538. 20:44those milestones that you mentioned. Uh
  539. 20:46certainly, I see the value increase here
  540. 20:48would be coming in due course.
  541. 20:50Any thoughts on the market before we
  542. 20:53wrap up?
  543. 20:54Okay. So, the gold market, we see the
  544. 20:57gold market be very strong. We only
  545. 20:59talking in our business about the gold
  546. 21:02price in AUD. Of course, most people
  547. 21:05talk about it in US dollar terms and
  548. 21:07then you do the conversion between AUD
  549. 21:09and USD. But as we have no debt, as we
  550. 21:13have no hedging, as we have no exposure
  551. 21:16to international currencies, we're very
  552. 21:18focused on the gold price in Australian
  553. 21:21dollar terms.
  554. 21:22Look, it did go go crazy last week
  555. 21:24getting up to about 7,900 Australian. It
  556. 21:28was just going too fast. And like
  557. 21:30everybody knows in life, the the quicker
  558. 21:32you rise, the harder you fall.
  559. 21:35So, the gold price since last Friday and
  560. 21:37today has come off around 13%. It's
  561. 21:40around 6,800 Aussie. It's still a ripper
  562. 21:43price. Yeah, Andrew, when we were
  563. 21:45selling gold from Jeffries find in 2024,
  564. 21:49we averaged out about 3,200 dollars
  565. 21:52Australian. So, realistically, you're
  566. 21:54talking about
  567. 21:56your gold price being double. So, I
  568. 21:59still see the gold price is very strong.
  569. 22:02I still see all the drivers for the gold
  570. 22:04price, you know,
  571. 22:05the political, the debt risk, the the
  572. 22:07insecurity. I still see all those things
  573. 22:10prevalent. So, I would expect gold price
  574. 22:12to remain quite buoyant. Anything for us
  575. 22:15above 6,500 Australian is outstanding as
  576. 22:18far as we're concerned.
  577. 22:20The equity markets, of course, are very
  578. 22:22bullish. I think your president, Andrew,
  579. 22:25is very determined to, using his own
  580. 22:28language, get the place moving. I think
  581. 22:30all the commodities are very strong. You
  582. 22:32know, gold, silver, uranium, platinum,
  583. 22:35even nickel and lithium are showing some
  584. 22:37sparks of life.
  585. 22:38So, I think the equity markets are going
  586. 22:40to be in a very good position. We are
  587. 22:42very bullish for the next 3 years. And
  588. 22:45everything as far as we are concerned,
  589. 22:47being a gold producer in one
  590. 22:49jurisdiction called Kalgoorlie, we
  591. 22:52couldn't be happier.
  592. 22:54It's good to be focused locally there
  593. 22:55where you guys are and some of this
  594. 22:57bigger stuff just passes overhead and
  595. 22:59you're good to go. And most certainly,
  596. 23:01being able to operate in the home
  597. 23:03currency always a plus there to stay
  598. 23:06within that market. Certainly, too, I
  599. 23:08think it's important that while there's
  600. 23:11always going to be corrections and
  601. 23:12volatility
  602. 23:14in commodity prices such as gold,
  603. 23:16looking back a couple years, we're still
  604. 23:19sitting quite well. And these things are
  605. 23:21healthy sometimes to happen. And
  606. 23:23certainly, we've got some very good
  607. 23:26conditions to maintain a pretty healthy
  608. 23:28price in the years to come the way
  609. 23:30things are headed here. So, appreciate
  610. 23:32your thoughts on that. Appreciate your
  611. 23:33thoughts on how the equities are looking
  612. 23:35as well. And well, why don't we leave it
  613. 23:36there for this update. For potential
  614. 23:38investors who are listening in, Auric
  615. 23:40Mining has a market capitalization of
  616. 23:42about 60 million Australian dollars. Why
  617. 23:46should the company be considered within
  618. 23:48the institutional family office and
  619. 23:50retail investors portfolio at this
  620. 23:52stage?
  621. 23:53Andrew, come the end of March,
  622. 23:56I expect us to have 20 million dollars
  623. 23:59give or take in the bank.
  624. 24:01So, that gives us an enterprise value of
  625. 24:0340 million dollars, which we think is
  626. 24:05incredibly cheap.
  627. 24:07We have two projects, both Munday and
  628. 24:09Lynjees, that have got resources on it
  629. 24:11that are on granted mining leases that
  630. 24:14we can get into production.
  631. 24:16We're going to build, repair, fix,
  632. 24:19whatever the right word is, the Burbanks
  633. 24:21facility so that we can control our own
  634. 24:23destiny.
  635. 24:25We've got an excellent landholding
  636. 24:27around Kalgoorlie, Kambalda,
  637. 24:30Widgiemooltha in WA, outstanding gold
  638. 24:33jurisdiction. Most of our projects,
  639. 24:36Andrew, are within an hour of
  640. 24:37Kalgoorlie, all on bitumen.
  641. 24:40To get to our Munday project, for
  642. 24:42example, you only drive 5 km on the
  643. 24:45gravel road.
  644. 24:46So, we can haul trucks from Munday to
  645. 24:49Kalgoorlie hour and a half, hour and 45
  646. 24:52minutes. You know, it's a it's a
  647. 24:53fantastic place to be.
  648. 24:56You know, everybody knows Kalgoorlie,
  649. 24:59Northern Star Goldfields, Westgold,
  650. 25:01Pantoro
  651. 25:03are just some of the big gold companies
  652. 25:05in the world that operate in that
  653. 25:07jurisdiction. So, everything that you
  654. 25:10need to run a business like Auric,
  655. 25:11Andrew, is 100% available to you within
  656. 25:15an hour's drive of all our projects.
  657. 25:18Appreciate your thoughts on that and
  658. 25:20where you guys are focused, it's a great
  659. 25:21place to be. And with that, for the
  660. 25:24audience, anybody who wants to reach
  661. 25:26out, what's the best way for them to
  662. 25:27make contact?
  663. 25:28Send me an email. I'll always respond to
  664. 25:31an email. My details are on every
  665. 25:33announcement. My mobile phone's there.
  666. 25:35If you want to ring me up, you can
  667. 25:37WhatsApp or Telegram me. Um and
  668. 25:40realistically, I have have a view that I
  669. 25:44endeavor to get back to anybody that
  670. 25:46contacts me within 48 hours.
  671. 25:48So, that's one of my personal goals and
  672. 25:51ambitions. Um so, any of your listeners,
  673. 25:53Andrew, that want to ask me any
  674. 25:55questions, please feel free to either
  675. 25:57email or phone me.
  676. 26:00Mark, well, thank you for the update on
  677. 26:02Auric. We're looking forward to seeing
  678. 26:03further results with Munday operations
  679. 26:05and other work in the coming months.
  680. 26:06Thank you.
  681. 26:08My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

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