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"The environment is a key topic in Chile today. It has slowed the development of large projects, and the community is more aware of the impact of mining activities now."
57536
"COVID-19 has been a global crisis, affecting all countries in different ways, but polyethylene is a very flexible product serving different sectors of the economy. It is a very relevant product for the food packaging, hygiene and medical segments, which have been doing very well, while demand from construction and automotive has been hit."
57534
“Although we received the final permit in December, we decided to wait until after the winter to commence production so as to hit the ground running. We have now started production when the gold price is more than US$500 higher from when we acquired and started building the mine two years ago. This has given us a great base to grow from.”
57532
“If you look back at Aurelian’s first resource, it was 13 million ounces at Fruta del Norte. It was scaled back, but now the near-term opportunity is to do infill drilling and convert some of our indicated resource to reserve. Our probable reserve is only 67% of our indicated resource right now.”
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"The AKK pipeline is a 614 km transmission system. Oilserv has been chosen to execute the first segment of the pipeline, which is approximately 304 km and runs from Ajaokuta to Abudja. We are currently in the engineering phase. It speaks volumes that we, as an indigenous company, have been able to step into a space that has been predominantly multinationals."
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"I believe the government is doing its best to put incentives in place. However, the delay in pinning down some of the key fiscal terms for oil industry operators in Nigeria, which is largely due to political factors, is hurting the system."