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Process choice the key to refractory door

SIPA Resources has a frustrating problem. It is sitting on a resource of 600,000 ounces of gold with an in-ground value of more than $350 million. It is hard to imagine that being a problem, but it is, because the Perth-based junior can't actually get at the gold.

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Process choice the key to refractory door

The gold resource, located under its existing Mount Olympus project at Paraburdoo, in Western Australia, is what is known as refractory. That is when the precious metal is trapped within a sulphide orebody...

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