Ann: MATERIAL INCREASE IN COPPER AND GOLD AT CONSTELLATION, page-8

Both KSN & POL have either developed an Owner Operator Mining Team or are currently building one.

I wonder if AIS will bother to build an expanded team or must go the easy/lazy option and stick with Contractors.

They seem to have had staffing issues for a long time ........................ maybe they need to employ some staff that know how to manage people.


18 DECEMBER 2024 ASX/MEDIA RELEASE
MURRAWOMBIE PIT UPDATE
• Open pit mining contract signed with Mackellar Group
• Mobilisation has commenced with key personnel and equipment
starting to arrive on site
• Mining scheduled to start early February 2025
Established Australian copper-gold producer and explorer Aeris Resources Limited
(ASX:AIS) (Aeris or the Company) is pleased to announce an update of its 100%
owned Tritton Operations in NSW.
Aeris’ Executive Chairman, Andre Labuschagne, said “the Murrawombie open pit
cutback is a key project for Tritton. With over a million tonnes in Reserve, the cutback
delivers a significant proportion of the mill feed in FY26. Non-acid forming waste
material from the stripping will be used to cap the old Murrawombie heap leach
pads, greatly reducing our future rehabilitation obligations. We are looking forward
to working with our open pit contractor, Mackellar on this critical project for Tritton.”
Open Pit Project
The Murrawombie open pit has a Probable Reserve of 1.34Mt grading 1.3% Cu and
0.2g/t Au1.
Mackellar Group was the successful tenderer for the open pit mining contract to
undertake the cutback.
Mining will be undertaken in two stages with Stage 1 involving limited stripping to
access remaining ore from the base of the old pit prior to the major stripping and
ore mining in Stage 2. A fleet of excavators, dozers and Cat 777 trucks will be
deployed over a 14-month contract period, with mobilisation under way and prestripping works commencing in February 2025.