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Peter Hambro Mining - Substantiall higher grades of gold found at Pioneer deposit

November 2004

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  • POG
The shares have powered ahead by over 70p this month not just because interim results matched its trading statement in July, but morebecause of burgeoning excitement that its Pioneer deposit may hold substantially higher grade gold than first thought. For the six months ended 30 June, pretax profit increased 53% to US$4.4m, on turnover up 61% to US$28.1m. The flagship Pokrovskiy mine produced 74,332 oz of gold, a 56% increase year on year and remains on track to produce its target of 204,000 oz for the year, while cash operating costs fell 7% to US$130. The group has also achieved production capacity of 1.5m tonnes ore per year (up from 1.0 tonnes) at its recently upgraded heap-leach plant. The only disappointmen ...

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