G'day guys, found this on an old thread for contractor/toll treating of gold ore in Kalgoorlie region a few years back. Hard to know how to raise for inflation and drop for industry conditions and treat forex, but maybe this gives some broad estimate of costs? will wait to see if FVR's big investor buddies have similar numbers in their financial models, (my bold)
The following is from a technical paper written in Feb 2009 by La Mancha Resources for their White Foil open pit mine (20kms West of Kalgoorlie) using toll treating from Focus Minerals (SEE FML release 27/1/2010) http://www.lamancha.ca/assets/68a37605836e4ad7b5614724846dcfd3_2009_WF_P1-feasibility_study.pdf Drilling and Blasting: $2.54 per tonne Mine Haulage:$2.99 per tonne Haulage to processor: $4 per tonne Toll Treatment: $23 per tonne all contract based So we have costs of $32.50 tonne in 2009 prices
