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M A R TA B E M I L L The processing facilities at G-Resources' Martabe gold-silver project at night. Southern Corridor, Tango Papa and Pahae, and we will probably go back into Golf Mike this year as well," Albert said. "We are looking for similar systems to Martabe and have identified a number of good opportunities, had some good results, and are continuing with specific drilling programs at the Southern Corridor and very soon at Tango Papa. In other areas we are more on the ground with geochemical and geophysical survey work. Across the CoW we continue to 92 E&MJ; • APRIL 2013 look for a buried copper-gold porphyry. We believe this is very good hunting ground for such a system—there is lots of smoke and we have done a fair bit of work with a number of holes giving us encouragement." Operationally, this year the company will focus on a number of key areas. "First, getting the ramp-up behind us and reaching nameplate capacity, which is not far off and then the pressure will be on to determine what can be obtained from the process plant through debottlenecking and optimization, and there are some very positive signals," Albert said. "We have had some short runs at throughputs well above design capacity and we'll be looking to maximize that through the remainder of 2013. From an engineering perspective we are also looking to tweak the process to get the maximum from it with little capital expenditure, if any. This should enable us to get maximum value out of this operation." www.e-mj.com