Recently appointed managing director Wayne Loxton told Gold Mining Journal the engineering design contract had been awarded to Intermet Engineering Ltd, which marked the start of the detailed design phase. "We are manning up our project team now and we are very advanced with project funding from RMB, and the company intends to convert this design contract into an EPCM contract," Loxton said. "Everything is going smoothly and we will pour gold in the second quarter of 2007." Allied had planned to develop a open cut mining operation, with throughput starting at 1.37 mtpa and increasing to 1.6 mtpa in the second year, producing about 60,000 ozpa over a 10 year mine life.
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