Dalabai is a gold prospect 150km north of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city. The 8km² licence contains an area that has been mined via several small open pits with heap leach processing on site. Gold and Silver mineralisation occurs in secondary quartzites within volcanic formations
An intensive drilling campaign during 2009 produced the following maiden Resource using a 0.2g/t cut off. The prospect area remains highly prospective for additional gold mineralisation.  

Dalabai is intended to be the Company’s first production site.  Construction at Dalabai is planned to commence mid 2010 with a heap leach trial scheduled for later in the year and full scale production (0.5Mtpa) targeted in early 2011. Dalabai is an ideal first production site because:

• it is a series of simple, shallow open pit operations with mineralisation from surface and has an anticipated average grade of 1.5 – 2.0g/t gold plus silver credits – easy to mine and at low mining cost;

• it is a heap leach facility of modest size - low capital requirement;

• it has a simple mineralogy that responds well to conventional heap leaching  - low processing risk;

• it is conveniently located near key infrastructure – power, people, rail, road – low capital and operating costs; and

• it was previously a heap leach operation and therefore has existing infrastructure on site – camp, site roads, dumps – further reducing capital costs and processing risk.

 

Photos: Dalabai prospect

 

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