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Bulk Sample Program
The sample tower and related equipment for the Bulk
Sample Program in the Valley of Kings has been
transported over the recently-completed all-weather
access road into Brucejack camp and is now on site.
Strathcona Mineral Services Ltd. of Toronto has been
engaged as the independent Qualified Person to oversee
and report on the 10,000-tonne bulk sample.
The 1345-meter level at the 426600 cross-section of the
Valley of the Kings was selected as the bulk sample
location based on Strathcona’s requirements that the
bulk sample be excavated from an area representative of
the (a) drillhole density that informs the Indicated Mineral
Resource, (b) average grade of the Indicated Mineral
Resource and the global resource for Valley of the Kings,
(c) proportion of low-grade, high-grade and extreme
grade populations in the overall Indicated Mineral
Resource and (d) style of stockwork gold mineralization
characteristic of the Valley of the Kings. Excavation of the
bulk sample is scheduled to begin in early June, with the
final report expected later in the year after compilation of
all bulk sample data. [Emphasis added.]
[11] In a May 28, 2013 news release, Pretium provided more information about
the BSP and the anticipated reporting, stating in part:
Sample Tower and Mineral Processing
The 10,000-tonne bulk sample will be excavated in
approximately 100-tonne rounds. Each round will be
crushed and run through a sample tower currently
assembled on site. The sample tower has been designed
and constructed to extract two 30-kilogram
representative samples from each 100-tonne round
processed by the sample tower. The representative
samples extracted by the sample tower will be assayed,
and the assay results will be reported by Strathcona in
their report on the Program.