Metallurgy

What's running hot? What's flatlining? What are the vital signs telling us?

The Mining Pulse is going places because today, for the first time, we have a president, Gary Lane, president of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, supposed to be one of my favorite institutes because it's my people in the processing industry.

Gary, you're, I think, a civil engineer.

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gets easier and easier, but the heart still pounds.

So the question I have for you, are you a member of the Southern African Institute of Modern Metallurgy? I think so.

You are? Yeah.

It takes time.

You probably know marathon, it's a marathon, right? Metallurgy is a marathon.

We just wanted to prove that we can run and start the race or the marathon.

So we did that.

So you've done a good job so far, Karim.

What about risks? Let's talk about that.

Why don't you tell me what you think the biggest risk is? What keeps you up at night here? Metallurgy.

Right off the bat.

All of that has been done.

Metallurgic, uh, analyses have, have been done.

Everything has been done on the, at le- um, at least on the-

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and humans use it.

Metallurgy becomes weapons.

Knowledge becomes power.

Power intensifies violence.

Okay.

Metallurgy, what do you, based on the historic stuff that you've seen, does that keep you up at night?

No, the, the met, the network that's been done, uh, the, the historic production results were, were pretty good.

You know, uh, the con is a clean con that's been created both at Lexington and at, uh, at Phoenix, you know, around 25% copper with about, uh, an ounce of gold and a couple ounces of silver, no nasties in it, like super clean con, uh, again, Sumitomo is, uh, is still interested in, in whatever con we produced from this asset because they bought it, uh, historically.