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1 <br />' 76 <br /> 1 UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Gary, is that a <br /> 2 function of the nature of the deposit or, if you <br /> 3 i <br />i <br /> were do <br />ng th <br />s at another location, would that <br />' 4 still make sense? I guess I am looking -- <br /> 5 MR. DODSON: It's a function o.f the <br /> 6 uniqueness in the ore and you are only going to get <br /> 7 about 60 or 72 percent recovery from the heap leach <br /> 8 rock. Hy milling all of this, we were able to get <br />' 9 more ounces out of the rock. <br /> 10 UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: I guess I am just <br />' 11 curious. This is the first time this has Come up. <br /> 12 We have other (inaudible). <br />' 13 MR. DODSON: The driving force was <br /> 14 originally we looked at all the different scenarios <br /> 15 and ways to get gold. We looked at CIL cir~:uits, at <br /> 16 heap leach total and this combination we go*_ <br /> <br /> 17 permitted. <br /> 18 We discounted the CIL early on because <br /> 19 we didn't like conventional tailings stands. I have <br /> 20 been around them and we did not like conventional <br /> 21 tailings stands. We started learning about this a <br />t 22 few m <br />nth <br />rio <br />th <br />v <br />f th <br />d <br />t <br />t <br />l <br /> s p <br />o <br />e appro <br />o <br />e amen <br />men <br />, <br />o <br />r <br />a <br /> 23 so we knew that the recovery rates were there, but <br /> 24 we didn't like the tailings dam, a conventional <br /> 25 tailings dam. <br />AGREN, BLANDO 8 BILLINGS <br /> <br />