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	Analytical Quality Assurance and Quality Control

	Quality Assurance (“QA”) involves the use of systematic actions to provide adequate
	confidence that a result will satisfy certain requirements, while Quality Control (“QC”)
	involves the use of operational techniques and activities to fulfil requirements for quality.

	Reliable analytical results are essential for accurate Mineral Resource estimation.
	Misinterpretation, sampling inconsistencies or poor quality analytical data can lead to low
	levels of accuracy in Resource delineation and can ultimately affect the value of a project.

	Between them, the members of the Minxcon team have extensive experience with regard
	to the evaluation of procedures and protocols utilised for data collection.

	The QAQC Department is responsible for assessing and auditing the sample collection
	and analysis methods and data management procedures used for projects covering a
	wide range of commodities, including gold, platinum and uranium. The QAQC team is
	proficient in designing and implementing QC procedures and protocols, thereby ensuring
	that the analytical results of exploration campaigns are adequately accurate and precise
	for utilisation in the estimation of a project’s Mineral Resources. It is a requirement of the
	various international reporting codes in terms of Indicated and Measured Mineral
	Resources that “... grade and mineral content can be estimated with a high level of
	confidence”. In accordance with the requirements of the SAMREC Code (and other
	international reporting codes), Minxcon is able to assess the nature of quality control
	procedures adopted for a project, and quality assurance thereof, including ascertaining
	whether acceptable levels of accuracy and precision have been established.

Minxcon's Core Values

At Minxcon, we strive to:

· Utilise vastly experienced technical staff with high professional standards;

· Maintain our unquestionable independence;

· Act with integrity at all times;

· Provide innovative solutions; and

· Offer the highest quality of service.

Minxcon’s ability to provide services and advice from the

project inception stage, throughout the listing period, all the

way to production and mine closure makes us an

exceptionally diversified advisory company.


	Minxcon’s QAQC department can assist in:-

	· Setting up protocols for data collection, procedures and protocols (sampling, drilling, databases, etc.);
	· Establishing reference samples, standards and blanks to use and their frequency; as well as establishing the matrix of these for the sample stream, matrix for duplicates and replicates, etc.;
	· Statistical analysis of analytical results of standards, blanks, duplicates and other reference materials for the purpose of assessing the quality of analytical sample results;
	· Assist in laboratory auditing and guidance; and
	· Compliancy with regards to public reporting according to the various Mineral/Coal Resource and Reserve Reporting Codes.