The high cash costs relate directly to the narrow vein style gold they are mining. Most intersections are less than a meter and they have to take a minimum of 1.5m which is highly delutive. As a result stopes produce small tonnage per vertical meter which greatly increases developement costs as the levels have to be closer together.
Ann: Exploration Update - November 2009 , page-10
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