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SEMS EXPLORATION SERVICES

"Over the last six years, we have weathered the storm of the lower gold price by shifting from our typical clientele – the exploration companies – to assist producing gold miners and companies exploring for other commodities such as bauxite, manganese, tin and coltan. Now, I believe we will see a resurgence of our typical client base, the junior gold explorer."

QUÍMICA DELTA

"Preserving cash liquidity will be very important, especially as market uncertainty continues. Finally, diversification will also be essential, and with this comes developing agile logistics systems, especially to move fuels around."

MS RISK

"In West Africa, much more dangerous than the pandemic is the war, and this war is spreading, so we need to see business and international actors help local governments prevent these democracies from being converted into military dictatorships and enable markets to thrive for the ultimate betterment of these societies."

TOREX GOLD RESOURCES

"Our primary focus is to deliver reliable and consistent cash flow from ELG, pay down debt and internally fund and bring Media Luna into production by early 2024 – while continuing to leverage potential opportunities to extend the current production profile of ELG through 2023 and into 2024."

"Recently, the political climate has not been favorable for new exploration, so we have seen a lot of work from brownfield activities, whereby mining operators look at expanding their operations or developing new areas in their deposits. In this respect, we are working on diverse geochemical and metallurgical test projects."

FIRST QUANTUM MINERALS LIMITED (FIRST QUANTUM)

"Despite all the year’s challenges, our workforce and operations continue to show great resilience.  This has resulted in a strong operational performance that allowed us to increase production expectations for the Group for the year, and at slightly improved costs."