With Michael Hudson of Southern Cross Gold - and look who has been buying shares!

Sean, always a pleasure.

Yeah. So, since we last spoke, Sean, we've done lots of things. And the project is very much advancing rapidly. Time is our biggest enemy here. And so we're trying to shortcut a number of things. No doubt that the hit rate is world class. We don't see gold coming out of many deposits globally at the rate that we have been hitting for the last few years. So I think that weight of evidence is very much in everybody's minds. We've got an exploration target at 2.2 to 3.2 million ounces, 8.5 to 10.6 g per ton gold equivalent. There's very few tier one multi-million ounce 10 g deposits on Earth. That's very much a fact. So, we're in a very rare club and we're only a very small part of the way through this discovery, but the project now has pivoted to where we say, well, okay, we've got the scale now. We've made it big enough to at least start looking at what this could look like as a mine. That means we need a lot more drill out and that's the biggest time limitation. So, we've got nine rigs today. We're going to 10 rigs and we're permitting a decline. If and when we get that decline permitted and constructed, which we're aiming for mid next year to have that constructed, then we can bring another 12 rigs underground. There's very few projects worldwide that have got 10 rigs on them as a pre-development project, let alone 22. And that brings the drill out to a significant resource and a project that we can engineer, put parameters around much quicker. Drilling underground and drilling 24/7 with more rigs is basically three times as fast. So it also derisks the project from an environmental permitting point of view because we're progressively permitting and also derisks it from the geological and resource model. We're getting under the ground and seeing it, mapping it, and sampling it and making sure it holds together like we see in drill holes that may be 50 m apart. So, we're confirming our interpretation. So, that's the plan is to run through 200 km of drilling, the decline, engineering studies. That's what we've funded the project for. So, we've just raised $162 million in May. So we have a treasury now to execute on that plan. And the only other part of that is that I just touched on, we've got $20 million set aside for regional exploration to explore the other 90% of the trend that we haven't along strike. So there's a series of old mines that everybody knows that we've only looked at a small part of that. And also even today we're drilling holes down to 1,800, 1,900 meters which will see a 500 meter test below the current exploration target area that we're infilling.

We do. We do and we've seen the deposit become very good from about 500 meters or 400 to 500 meters that transition where we start to see these very high grades of gold that have defined this project over the last few years. But the geological optimism, but the geological reality is that we mightn't be in the best parts of the system yet in which we've drilled down to a kilometer. So we know that Boston-Deakin as the peer next door is drilling holes down towards 2 km now. So let's see what happens down there and whether with a couple of holes we can test that the system continues which is the main aim. So the rails of the ladder continue down into the earth and let's hope we can hit one or two of the rungs of the ladder which are the veins. Which is a bit harder because we're drilling for the system to continue the rails. So, we're drilling somewhat parallel to the rungs to get those deeper holes, but you never know until you test it. And let's see what's happening down there. It will add substantial resource potential to the project. Of course, if we can define those rails that continue,