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CUU own 25% Schaft Creek: proven/probable min. reserves/940.8m tonnes = 0.27% copper, 0.19 g/t gold, 0.018% moly and 1.72 g/t silver containing: 5.6b lbs copper, 5.8m ounces gold, 363.5m lbs moly and 51.7m ounces silver; (Recoverable CuEq 0.46%)

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Aug 06, 2014 10:46AM
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Aug 06, 2014 02:55PM

Plus the negative 32 cents was in a pre-feasibility study which can be up to 30% off anyway.

Also, the price of metals changed drastically between the pre-feasibility and the feasibility, which affected every project out there, not just ours.

I was just trying to work out the math on a yearly basis of return from the pre-feasibility to the feasibility and based on the difference in values on the metals the feasibility would generate $51 million less per year. Over the LOM that would be huge.

The drop in price of molybdenum almost single-handedly accounts for that loss per year.

Add to that the lower recoveries in the FS, from the pre-FS. We went from 88% copper, 82% gold, 72% silver and 71% moly to 86.6% copper, 73% gold, 48.3% silver and 58.8% moly. So not only was moly half the price by the time of the FS but also had a significantly lower recovery rate.

The biggest difference, of course, was losing so much material in the pit design.

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Aug 06, 2014 10:30PM
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