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The Age
08-07-2025
- Business
- The Age
Tassie mine acquisition turns Kaiser into multi-asset gold producer
Since completing its Tasmanian Henty gold mine acquisition in mid-May, Kaiser Reef has processed 35,853 dry tonnes of ore gold at a head grade of 4.05g/t for 4069 ounces of gold, transforming it into a multi-asset gold producer. Kaiser is bedding the Henty operation down nicely, achieving an 87.1 per cent metallurgical recovery rate in its first 1.5 months of ownership. And a quick look at the operation's recovery history suggests there may be room for further recovery gains. In 2021, then-owner Catalyst Metals reported an average 94.5 per cent recovery rate at Henty. Before Catalyst took over, the mine had an average metallurgical recovery rate of 76.1 per cent. Catalyst attributed its significant improvement to an improved process plant leach environment, including optimised cyanide levels, while retaining a low tails grade of 0.27g/t gold. Kaiser Reef managing director Jonathan Downes said: ' This has been a landmark quarter for Kaiser, headlined by the acquisition of the Henty gold mine in Tasmania, a profitable production centre with at least a 5-year mine life, based on reserves, and fantastic exploration potential.' 'This is the single biggest quarter of production for Kaiser and we look forward to building from here.' Kaiser Reef managing director Jonathan Downes Kaiser Reef is a high-grade gold mining and exploration company with a focus on mining and exploring for gold in Tasmania and the Victorian goldfields, which have a long and storied mining history. Downes said that with the Henty acquisition, Kaiser's transformation into a three-gold project operation, including two operational mines and two processing plants, had combined with the current stellar gold price environment to give the company its single biggest quarter of production. In addition to Henty, Kaiser owns and operates the A1 gold mine, the Maldon gold mine in Victoria, which is on care and maintenance, and the Maldon gold processing plant.
West Australian
08-07-2025
- Business
- West Australian
Tassie mine acquisition turns Kaiser into multi-asset gold producer
Since completing its Tasmanian Henty gold mine acquisition in mid-May, Kaiser Reef has processed 35,853 dry tonnes of ore gold at a head grade of 4.05g/t for 4069 ounces of gold, transforming it into a multi-asset gold producer. Kaiser is bedding the Henty operation down nicely, achieving an 87.1 per cent metallurgical recovery rate in its first 1.5 months of ownership. And a quick look at the operation's recovery history suggests there may be room for further recovery gains. In 2021, then-owner Catalyst Metals reported an average 94.5 per cent recovery rate at Henty. Before Catalyst took over, the mine had an average metallurgical recovery rate of 76.1 per cent. Catalyst attributed its significant improvement to an improved process plant leach environment including optimised cyanide levels, while retaining a low tails grade of 0.27g/t gold. Kaiser Reef is a high-grade gold mining and exploration company with a focus on mining and exploring for gold in Tasmania and the Victorian goldfields, which have a long and storied mining history. Downes said that with the Henty acquisition, Kaiser's transformation into a three-gold project operation, including two operational mines and two processing plants, had combined with the current stellar gold price environment to give the company its single biggest quarter of production. In addition to Henty, Kaiser owns and operates the A1 gold mine, the Maldon gold mine in Victoria, which is on care and maintenance, and the Maldon gold processing plant. Gold processed and reconciled at Kaiser Reef's Maldon plant between April 1 and June 30, including feed from the A1 gold mine and third-party purchases, amounted to 10,918 dry tonnes at a head grade of 2.42g/t gold for 756.3 ounces of gold, for an 89 per cent recovery rate. Reconciled gold mined from the A1 gold mine in that time totalled 4262 dry tonnes at a 4.03g/t head grade for 551.7 ounces of gold mined. For the first 10 days of Henty ownership, Kaiser reported a record gold pour of about 1200 ounces, leading to the company's estimated combined operations production rate of about 30,000 ounces of gold per year. The Henty acquisition has positioned Kaiser as a multi-asset gold producer with significant growth potential. The operation is endowed with an estimated 449,000-ounce mineral resource at 3.4g/t gold, with 88 per cent classified in the measured and indicated categories. Its current ore reserves of 154,000 ounces at 4g/t gold give the current show an operational mine life of more than five years, with upside for future reserves from conversion of resources and future exploration. It will be interesting to see how things shape up for Kaiser when Henty production really comes on-song over the next few months of continuous processing and when its A1 mine transitions from its development phase to full production. Is your ASX-listed company doing something interesting? Contact:
Sydney Morning Herald
08-07-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Tassie mine acquisition turns Kaiser into multi-asset gold producer
Since completing its Tasmanian Henty gold mine acquisition in mid-May, Kaiser Reef has processed 35,853 dry tonnes of ore gold at a head grade of 4.05g/t for 4069 ounces of gold, transforming it into a multi-asset gold producer. Kaiser is bedding the Henty operation down nicely, achieving an 87.1 per cent metallurgical recovery rate in its first 1.5 months of ownership. And a quick look at the operation's recovery history suggests there may be room for further recovery gains. In 2021, then-owner Catalyst Metals reported an average 94.5 per cent recovery rate at Henty. Before Catalyst took over, the mine had an average metallurgical recovery rate of 76.1 per cent. Catalyst attributed its significant improvement to an improved process plant leach environment, including optimised cyanide levels, while retaining a low tails grade of 0.27g/t gold. Kaiser Reef managing director Jonathan Downes said: ' This has been a landmark quarter for Kaiser, headlined by the acquisition of the Henty gold mine in Tasmania, a profitable production centre with at least a 5-year mine life, based on reserves, and fantastic exploration potential.' 'This is the single biggest quarter of production for Kaiser and we look forward to building from here.' Kaiser Reef managing director Jonathan Downes Kaiser Reef is a high-grade gold mining and exploration company with a focus on mining and exploring for gold in Tasmania and the Victorian goldfields, which have a long and storied mining history. Downes said that with the Henty acquisition, Kaiser's transformation into a three-gold project operation, including two operational mines and two processing plants, had combined with the current stellar gold price environment to give the company its single biggest quarter of production. In addition to Henty, Kaiser owns and operates the A1 gold mine, the Maldon gold mine in Victoria, which is on care and maintenance, and the Maldon gold processing plant.
Scotsman
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Picture You Dead comes to Glasgow
Who says crime doesn't pay? Peter James has sold 23 million copies of his crime thrillers worldwide with 21 consecutive UK Sunday Times number ones, as well as chart-toppers in Germany, France, Russia and Canada. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... He's also a New York Times best-seller, his murder mysteries translated into 38 languages. He's launched the seventh adaptation of one of his thrillers, Picture You Dead, that is set in the veiled world of high-end art forgery, already a bestseller on paper and currently on a major UK tour. Peter met producer Josh Andrews at a party in 2010 and they hit it off immediately. 'We have similar taste.' Writing books and writing stage plays are two quite different disciplines, of course, quite apart from the fact it would be torture, says Peter, slimming down 120,000 words or so on paper into a 25,000-word script for two hours of theatre. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad What made the book such a pleasure to write in the first place, says Peter, was that he had the great good fortune to meet real-life forger David Henty, 65, who lives up the road in Saltdean. Picture You Dead 'Back in 2015, I co-wrote a book, Death Comes Knocking: Policing Roy Grace's Brighton, with former Commander of Brighton and Hove Police, Graham Bartlett. It was Graham who introduced me to Henty.' Twenty years earlier, Henty had been a highly successful passport forger specialising in fake watermarks. When the police eventually kicked in the door of the forgery factory, Henty was arrested, along with his co-conspirators, and subsequently sentenced to five years in prison. It was to be the very making of him. His relatively harmless white-collar crime meant he had a pretty easy time of it inside. 'I quickly found my way to the art room where I could paint to my heart's content under the watchful eye of a couple of teachers.' What he couldn't have predicted was his innate talent. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad He has the rare gift of being able to copy the work of any painter from Fragonard to Caravaggio ('He's my favourite: I love the drama in his paintings'), from Van Gogh to Rembrandt, from Picasso to modern-day Banksy. And he can fool almost anyone that these paintings are genuine originals. 'It's what gave me the idea of the plot for Picture You Dead,' says Peter. Ore Oduba The new stage adaptation stars Ore Oduba, 2016 Strictly Come Dancing champion and Musical Theatre star ricocheting from one project to the next. After making his stage debut in Grease, and a long spell as Brad Majors in the tour of the Rocky Horror Show, he has recently finished touring the UK in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Oduba joins the cast of Picture You Dead in Sheffield, Glasgow, Bath, Birmingham, Truro, Bradford, Worthing and through to the final week in Southend at the end of July. 'I play Stuart Piper, a dyed-in-the-wool baddie,' says Ore, 39, with a face-splitting smile. 'I've known about the Peter James novels for some time and the stage adaptations of the earlier ones for seven or eight years. I've been chatting to Josh Andrews, the producer, and waiting for the right role to come along. And this is it! Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Stuart is my villain hero. He has a penchant for a painting, an expert in his field but not someone to be messed with. In the shady world of forgery, everyone is linked in some way. What's so clever about Peter's stories is that they're beautifully plotted; everything slots together in the end.' L-R: Peter James, George Rainsford, Fiona Wade, Ore Oduba One of the benefits of the tour, he says, is playing theatres in which he hasn't appeared before. 'I can't wait to perform in Bath; I must have walked past that beautiful theatre a hundred times. I'm keen on working in Truro. And going back to Glasgow will be a real treat; it's like a second home to me.' 'It's going to be an exciting challenge working with an amazing bunch of people. I'm looking forward to a lot of hissing and booing from the audience. Here's a guy who I hope you'll love to hate.' For actor George Rainsford, 42, who played Ethan Hardy in Casualty for nine years, this is his second turn round the block having played DSI Roy Grace in the successful UK tour of Peter James's Wish You Were Dead in 2023. 'It was great fun doing it the first time but a bit different because you saw Roy and his wife on holiday with their toddler in France. He was out of his comfort zone. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'In Picture You Dead, he's back in Brighton at work and doing what fans will recognise. He's heavily involved in a live case with all its twists and turns.' George has been on the road for nearly half the year already. He's looking forward to a first time playing in Bath. 'And I'm originally from Yorkshire so it'll be fun to return to Sheffield and Bradford. 'It will be home on a Sunday to wash my smalls! And we haven't got any Monday shows which helps a bit when it comes to family.' George and his actress wife Jaimi Barbakoff, both 42, have two children aged 10 and eight. 'Funnily enough, Picture You Dead came out in novel form when I was on the last tour as Roy Grace. I downloaded the audio version and listened to it when I was running.' Could we be sitting here in two years' time with George about to tackle Roy for a third time? 'Never say never,' he says, with a broad smile. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Fiona Wade is Freya Kipling married to Harry, an innocent couple who go to a car boot sale where they buy a painting she's not keen on but that Harry likes. In time, it's discovered that there may be an original beneath the painting which, when exposed, could be worth a small fortune. Or is it a forgery? Fiona's particularly pleased to have been cast in this production because she is reunited with George Rainsford who played her husband last year in the hit tour of 2.22 A Ghost Story. This was a return to the theatre (she's appeared in Miss Saigon and The Far Pavilions) after more than a decade playing Priya Sharma in Emmerdale. She bowed out in 2023 - 'It was a long run and it changed my life. But I wanted to take the gamble of seeing what else was out there so I asked to be written out of the soap. I very much believe in the power of positive thinking and my gamble has paid off.' She's particularly looking forward to taking the Peter James thriller to Bradford - a favourite city, not least because it isn't far from where Emmerdale is filmed in Leeds. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Touring in a production is a lovely way to see the UK,' says Fiona. And she's a huge fan of crime novels. 'I'm going to start working my way through Peter James's long list of thrillers, beginning, of course, with Picture You Dead.' Jodie Steele, 34, plays Roberta Kilgore, who plays in the darker aspects of the art world. 'I've made it my business wherever possible,' she says, 'to play baddies: so much more fun and something to get your teeth into. I've just finished filming the TV series of Malory Towers and I'm a baddie in that, too. Quite different, I should add, from real life because I'm a total softie.' Picture You Dead is her first thriller in a busy career dominated by musicals: Heathers, Blanche in Bonnie and Clyde, Wicked, and Catherine Howard in the all-conquering Six. Most recently, she toured in a new production of Filumena starring Felicity Kendal. Jodie's delighted, she says, to be in the stage adaptation of a Peter James book because her older sister, Chloe, is his biggest fan. 'She's read all 21 of his Roy Grace thrillers. The stories are like jigsaw puzzles. He's a sort of modern-day Agatha Christie.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Last word to Peter himself. So, what is it about whodunits, in his opinion, that appeals to the reading – or theatre-going – public? 'People love being scared,' he says, 'although in a safe way. Bad things happen in the world so it's satisfying to see them resolved. And there's no harm in throwing in a little gallows humour along the way.'
The Age
29-05-2025
- Climate
- The Age
Waiting for rain as an ancient world files past, hoping truth matters
Winter's first serious cold front came charging in with the clouds. Too cold now for seed to germinate. Those who have been around for a while will tell you the season is pretty well buggered. Australia is built on paradox. Down here in western Victoria, while we prayed for rain and exulted to the music of it when it fell, large parts of NSW, drowning, had been praying for it to stop. Survival in Australia has also been built on resilience. As anyone who has been paying attention knows, resilience is becoming more imperative as climate change brings more extreme and frequent droughts and floods. In the hours before the rain came clattering on my roof, ranks of the most resilient Australians of all marched past my house. Denied a formal voice by a recent political strategy of divide and conquer, they were using their feet, heading to Parliament House, 400 kilometres away, to deliver truths gathered in a great document that tells their stories for the first time in their own words: about what happened after Europeans came and put an end to the world their ancestors had known for tens of thousands of years. They call it a Walk for Truth. Loading It began in Portland, where Victoria's colonisation began when the Henty family sailed in and established a permanent – and illegal – settlement in 1834. It will end on June 18 at Melbourne's Parliament House because that's where legislators hold out the hope of negotiating the first black-white treaty in Australia's history. The walkers, the first of more than 4000 registered to take part in stretches of the trek, are of Aboriginal and European heritage. They want the same thing. Call it justice through truth-telling, for that is what the Yoorrook Justice Commission, which has gathered the stories for the parliamentarians to absorb, was established to achieve. The Indigenous walkers carried not only close-held stories of injustice – stolen land, stolen children, massacres and marginalisation – but the knowledge that they are survivors of a culture so old it beggars the mind to imagine it. Their ancestors' experience of climate change reduces ours to not much more than a breeze on a drizzly day. The forebears of those born in the far south-west of Victoria were here when the volcanoes were still blowing their tops. We know this because a stone axe was found in the 1940s at Bushfield, near Warrnambool, a metre beneath the ash layer deposited by the last explosion of Tower Hill. Recent technology has established Tower Hill, between Warrnambool and Port Fairy, erupted 36,800 years ago (give or take an error margin of 3800 years). Not far away, Budj Bim near Macarthur (formerly known as Mount Eccles) had an eruption age of 36,900 years (plus or minus 3100 years). Portrayals of its fiery explosion live on in creation stories handed down through more than a thousand generations of Gunditjmara people. Thus, the minimum period in which Aboriginal people have lived in Victoria's south-west is 33,000 years, their own ancestors having arrived in Australia's north maybe 30,000 years before that. In Europe and Asia around that time, Homo sapiens were putting an end to Neanderthals and in some cases assimilating with them. When I was celebrating a rain shower that might have eased a drought of a few months, I was struck by the knowledge that many of those walkers passing my house carried the genes of people who had lived through Australia's last ice age and mega-droughts that each lasted 20 years and more. The last ice age hit its freezing glaciated peak about 20,000 years ago, and petered out about 11,500 years ago. How do a people emerge from a world flowing with boiling lava into thousands of years of deep freeze, in which the sea was 120 metres below its current level and the coastal plains of Victoria extended to the continental shelf and, in places, clear to Tasmania? And then witness their lands shrinking, with the sea rushing in and claiming back those coastal plains? Finally, a mere blink ago, there came Europeans sailing across the horizon, leading to more destruction of Aboriginal lives and culture in a few decades than volcanoes and almost 12,000 years of frozen landscape had been able to achieve combined. The walkers for truth drifted by, heading to a beach called Convincing Ground, site of the first recorded massacre in Victoria, and on to a lake in Budj Bim's lava field called Tae Rak, where the ancients built elaborate fish traps and farmed eels at least 6700 years ago. That's about 1000 years before the Britons got around to building Stonehenge. I waved to the last of the walkers and returned to tap-tapping my rainwater tanks, hoping for a proper end to the latest dry. And new beginnings.
