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M A R TA B E M I L L also do a tremendous amount in the education field—reading gardens, supporting schools, developing school infrastructure, sponsorships, etc. We are involved in business development with micro-finance, agricultural programs, rice improvement techniques, fish farms and those sort of things. "Even though everyone would love a job we can't give everyone a job, so we endeavor to ensure everyone benefits from development of such an enterprise and everyone sees lifestyle improvements," Albert said. "We are focused on ensuring we touch every family in some form so that everyone participates and gains a benefit. The longterm vision is to build a sustainable future for people beyond the mine life." Exploration is a Priority Exploration is a priority and there are a few legs to the program. There is a budget of around $17 million for 2013 and chief geologist Shawn Crispin is running the program. It is a large CoW and within that is the Martabe area, which at this stage comprises seven deposits. This year the company is focusing on: • Replacing depleted ore reserves from mining thus retaining current reserves and mine life; www.e-mj.com G-Resources is delighted with the work of its contractors at Martabe—Leighton Indonesia and Nusa Konstruksi. • Generating more resources from existing targets and new targets to provide longer mine life and potential to expand the operation; and • Focusing on a specific drilling program to identify a sulfide resource. Most of the deposits have significant sulfide mineralization at depth below the current pit outlines. G-Resources had drilled a number of metallurgical sulfide holes to generate samples, which have been taken, prepared and will be delivered to laboratories for a metallurgical sulfide test work program. "On the larger CoW area we have a number of exciting targets and are working on the APRIL 2013 • E&MJ; 91