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Speaker 1: Di's gold in them DA held an Ozzie mining company

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Speaker 1: reckons it's found one of the most significant gold discoveries

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand in the last forty years. This is

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Speaker 1: Santana Minerals. They found gold deposits all across Bendigo Station

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Speaker 1: in central Otago. Damien Spring is the chief executive. Hey, Damien,

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Speaker 1: Hi there, how big is it?

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Speaker 2: It's big? How about a hundred and ten thousand, one

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Speaker 2: hundred and ten thousand ounces for ten years, if not more.

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Speaker 1: So in the scale of gold in this country? What

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Speaker 1: comes close to that? Like, where are we sitting in

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Speaker 1: the scale?

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Speaker 2: Hi? Look, mccras's forecasts produced I think one hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty thousand ounces that's at their mind, just north of Dunedin,

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Speaker 2: and I think why he gold are probably approaching some

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Speaker 2: of the number of about one hundred thousand.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So are you guys doing a capital raise?

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: No? No, we're just we're just doing what we do

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Speaker 2: doing and that's that's in the project for our shareholders

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Speaker 2: and our community.

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Speaker 1: So you got enough money to be able to do

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Speaker 1: the mining.

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Speaker 2: Ah? Yeah. We actually raised thirty odd million dollars back

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Speaker 2: in May and that will take us through to a

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Speaker 2: final investment decision, hopefully sometime in the new year.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find a way in for myself here, Damien,

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Speaker 1: Have you done? Have you done it? Are you guys

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Speaker 1: going to be going for the fast track consenting?

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Speaker 2: Look, we're on track to some of our application under

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Speaker 2: the RMA by the end of this year. If the

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Speaker 2: Fast Track Approvals Bill is passed by then and it

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Speaker 2: suits what we're aiming to do, then certainly we'll look

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Speaker 2: at it.

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Speaker 1: And when do you reckon you could get started? What's

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Speaker 1: the soonest?

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Speaker 2: Well, you'd have to take the lead from the fast

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Speaker 2: Track Bill, and if they do put it in before

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Speaker 2: the end of the year, I believe the decision would

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Speaker 2: be come back within six months, So we'd make a

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Speaker 2: decision halfway through next year on that basis, Let's see

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Speaker 2: what happens, Damian.

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Speaker 1: Obviously there are going to be places around the country

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Speaker 1: that are going to get a lot more attract a

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Speaker 1: lot more protests than others. I would imagine that given

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Speaker 1: that yoursers on a on privately owned land, it won't

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Speaker 1: be too much of a headache, will it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not sure. Which we just have to deal

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Speaker 2: with what's in front of us? Yep, it's on private land.

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Speaker 2: I guess the community wants to know what our proposal

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Speaker 2: is all about, and we've been spending the last a

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Speaker 2: couple of months actually getting that engagement underway, and we've

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Speaker 2: still got a lot of work to do between now

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Speaker 2: and the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: Damien, good stuff, good luck with it. Damien Spring, the

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Speaker 1: chief executive at Santana Minerals. For more from Heather Duplasy

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