Midas Gold Updates Progress on its Golden Meadows Au-Ag-Sb Project,
Idaho
Optimization of Planned Preliminary Feasibility Study Advances
on Many Fronts
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Apr 7, 2014) - Midas
Gold Corp. (TSX:MAX)(OTCQX:MDRPF) today provided a progress report
on its Golden Meadows Project in the historic Stibnite mining
district of Idaho. Since the completion of the Preliminary Economic
Assessment published in September 2012 (the "PEA"), the Midas Gold
team and its consultants have focused on efforts to optimize the
project from an environmental, social, sustainability, technical
and economic perspective, with the objective of improving the
project concepts over those set out in the PEA, including key
objectives of designing for project closure, management of water
quality and habitat restoration. Over the past 18 months, Midas
Gold has also used the concepts from the PEA as a basis for
discussions with local communities, Native American Tribes, State,
Federal and local governments, regulators, NGOs and other
interested parties in respect of project options in order to
solicit suggestions and feedback for consideration in its technical
studies. The results of these efforts will be incorporated into a
Preliminary Feasibility Study (a "PFS") once the review and
optimization process is complete.
"During the past 18 months, Midas Gold and its team of
consultants have been evaluating numerous aspects of the Golden
Meadows Project in order to optimize outcomes from an
environmental, sustainability, social, technical and financial
perspective," said Stephen Quin, President & CEO of Midas Gold
Corp. "With almost 70 individual trade-off and optimization studies
completed or in progress, this has been an intensive effort focused
on designing the best possible project," he said. "While
significant work remains to be completed over the next few months,
we have completed much of the physical work required to support the
preliminary feasibility study and are now focused on the analysis
and interpretation of the results, the finalization of key
assumptions for the planned study and optimization of project
outcomes. With the later than planned receipt of some of the
studies' results and some variability of results from initial
assumptions used in the PEA, this process is taking somewhat longer
than anticipated but, regardless, the objective is to design the
best project while taking into account these different
perspectives."
With these perspectives in mind, the following is a summary of
key areas of activity, with further detail on each provided later
in the release:
- Expanded mineral resource estimation process - In order to
provide data necessary for the optimization of metallurgical
processing, balance the throughput of different types of
mineralization and to ensure the applicability of the various
historic data sets, the time frame for the completion of the
expanded mineral resource estimates is around mid-year.
- Mine plan optimization - In order to reduce its environmental
footprint, Midas Gold has elected to forgo incorporation of certain
of the high strip, lower margin mineral resources, as well as
phasing mining within individual pits to balance different feed
types and to support in-pit placement of waste rock.
- Employment - Midas Gold has identified a number of functions
that can be located within local communities, allowing employees to
work from home and reducing camp size.
- Fish habitat protection and enhancement - A major focus has
been to mitigate potential impacts on water quality, to design
concepts to enhance water quality and fish habitat, and to deliver
same earlier in the project schedule.
- Recycling historic tailings and spent ore - In order to address
legacy disturbance from historic mining early in the project life,
Midas Gold plans to utilize the spent heap leach ore for
construction purposes and reprocess the historic tailings early in
the project schedule.
- Relocated project infrastructure - With the objective of
reducing potential impacts on or risks to the environment and local
communities, Midas Gold has identified a new preferred access
route, a new preferred process plant location, and has elected to
utilize grid power for the project.
- Materials handling - Based on testing and option analysis,
Midas Gold has elected to utilize a jaw crusher as its preferred
first stage comminution, and to use trucks to haul materials.
- Processing enhancements - Extensive metallurgical testing has
allowed Midas Gold to identify options for enhanced overall
recoveries, to eliminate the capital and operating cost associated
with acidulation and to provide for extended operating hours on an
annual basis.
- Concentrate oxidation - Supported by extensive testing and
trade-off studies, Midas Gold has determined to retain pressure
oxidation as the preferred method of concentrate oxidation due to
its better environmental and financial performance, and has
identified opportunities to reduce neutralization costs.
- Secondary antimony processing - Recently completed test work
has demonstrated the potential for production of antimony end
products within the US, as opposed to shipping concentrates
overseas.
Details of Project
Optimization Efforts
In the PEA completed in September 2012, Midas Gold outlined one
possible option for the potential future development of the Golden
Meadows Project, identified additional information required in
order to further advance the project, and outlined some possible
alternatives for the potential project.
In the 18 months since completion of the PEA, different project
concepts have been and continue to be reviewed with a focus on
environmental, sustainability, social, technical and financial
outcomes. Project optimization studies have been completed or are
in progress on approximately 70 aspects of the project, including
the following ten key areas:
- Mineral Resource Estimation - Midas Gold has completed 45,790m
of drilling in 272 holes since the date of the PEA, has recovered
considerable historic (i.e. pre-Midas Gold) data generated by prior
operators of the project, and is working with its consultants to
ensure the appropriateness of, and the basis for, incorporating
each of these various data sets into the updated mineral resource
estimate. This Midas Gold and historic data, combined with
structural data collected by Midas Gold from oriented core,
analysis of samples for trace and rock-forming elements (such as
sulphur, silica and carbonate), and alteration (including the
degree of oxidation), have assisted in the interpretation of
structures, stratigraphy and various mineralizing events. Midas
Gold has used this information to improve its geologic modelling of
the mineral deposits within the Golden Meadows Project area.
Geologic models are substantially complete for the Hangar Flats,
West End and Yellow Pine deposits, and a model is well advanced for
the Scout deposit. A number of parameters and elements (both
directly and through the use of proxies) that are essential for
mine planning (in order to balance gold production with pressure
oxidation and mill capacity) are also being incorporated into the
models. Mineral resource estimation is substantially advanced and
is taking longer than planned due to the number and complexity of
the models, but robust models, able to accurately predict the
parameters likely to affect or influence the various stages of
processing and neutralization, are key to optimizing the PFS.
Completion of the mineral resource models is dependent on
assumptions in respect of a number of parameters that are required
under NI43-101 to demonstrate potential economic viability in order
to define a mineral resource that will form the basis of a mineral
reserve estimate for use in the PFS. Finalization of these
assumptions is dependent on outcomes of certain trade-off and
optimization studies discussed below and, as a result, the schedule
for completion is around the end of Q2/14.
- Mine Plan Optimization - An environmental, technical and
financial review of each of the deposits, based on the 2012 PEA
mineral resource estimates, indicated that the extraction of the
higher strip ratio mineral resources in the final phase of the
conceptual Hangar Flats pit generated a large environmental
footprint (in respect of the resulting open pit and waste rock
dumps) for a marginal increase in net present value ("NPV"), with
the NPV of the increased cash flow being largely offset by
increased sustaining capital. This sustaining capital included
additional mining equipment and considerable waste stripping in
order to access these incremental mineral resources. Midas Gold has
determined to forgo these relatively marginal ounces in order to
reduce the size of any pit designed for Hangar Flats, with the
resulting reduction in waste generated from this area aligned with
Midas Gold's objective of aiming to reduce its overall
environmental footprint. Midas Gold has also worked with its
consultants to optimize the scheduling of the various deposits,
including potentially phasing development within individual pits in
order to balance and optimize mill feed while potentially allowing
concurrent backfilling portions of these open pits as mining
progresses (reducing the overall quantity of waste rock placed in
waste rock storage facilities).
- Community and Camp-based Employment - Following an evaluation
of its needs and those of its future employees, Midas Gold has
determined that certain support and technical functions (including
accounting, human resources, some logistics, warehousing and
laboratory) could be located in the local communities in the
Cascade - Donnelly - McCall corridor, rather than at the project
site. This will allow a significant number of employees to live at
home, with their families, and work at well-paid, quality jobs in
the communities in this corridor, resulting in a smaller camp and
reduced vehicular traffic to site. Midas Gold has also identified a
potential alternate location for the on-site man camp that would
improve the safety of, and quality of life for, its employees as
compared to the site selected in the PEA.
- Fish Habitat Protection & Enhancement - A major focus for
the conceptual project design has been the improvement of the local
fishery, both through habitat enhancement and improvement of water
quality. After evaluating opportunities to mitigate potential
impacts and enhance eventual outcomes related to fish habitat
(versus options considered in the PEA), Midas Gold has, among other
things, identified opportunities to eliminate potential future
impact on Sugar Creek, to allow fish passage through the site and
beyond (for the first time since the 1930s) earlier in the project
life, to enhance fish spawning/rearing potential in the Meadow
Creek Valley, and to largely eliminate ongoing erosion and sediment
generation from Blowout Creek. Blowout Creek is likely the largest
contributor of sediments to Meadow Creek in the project area,
impacting fish habitat and water quality.
- Re-mining of Historic Tailings & Re-use of Historic Leached
Ore - Extensive prior mining at Stibnite resulted in deposition of
(i) a significant quantity of tailings generated by milling
operations conducted from the 1920s through the 1950s, and (ii) a
significant volume of spent ore generated by seasonal heap leach
operations conducted in the 1980s and 1990s. Midas Gold has
determined that it is conceptually feasible to reprocess the
tailings and to re-use the leached ore for a net environmental
benefit. Following a successful auger drilling program completed
during the summer of 2013, Midas Gold announced a NI 43-101
compliant mineral resource estimate for the existing tailings on
October 28, 2013 and is currently focused on options for recovering
and re-treating these tailings. Midas Gold anticipates that these
tailings would be reprocessed and placed in a lined tailings
storage facility early in the project life, most likely within the
first three to five years, thereby ensuring that this remediation
opportunity is delivered early in the conceptual project schedule.
These historic tailings are overlain by approximately six million
tonnes of spent heap leach ore that has been crushed to minus 3/4
inch size. Geotechnical and geochemical analysis of the spent ore
indicates that it could be reused for construction of certain
infrastructure related to the conceptual project, thereby
eliminating the need to mine and crush several million tonnes of
new rock to create suitable aggregate for the construction of this
infrastructure. Through these approaches, Midas Gold could
effectively recycle previously generated waste material, reducing
its environmental footprint and saving money related to mining and
crushing if such material were not available.
- Project Infrastructure - Midas Gold and its consultants have
re-evaluated concepts for a preferred access route, a preferred
power supply and siting of a potential process facility through the
lens of environmental impact, community considerations, technical
risk and financial outcomes.
- Access Route - After considering a number of options, Midas
Gold has an alternate preferred access route that was identified by
members of the local community. Since this already existing access
route essentially eliminates travel adjacent to significant
drainages and has only one crossing of such a drainage, it
significantly reduces potential sediment impacts on water and fish
habitat related to sediment run-off and dust generation from roads
and vehicular traffic, while also largely eliminating the risk of
spills into these drainages. Midas Gold and its consultants are
continuing to optimize the design of this access route in order to
minimize potential impacts and costs.
- Power Supply - Midas Gold and its consultants have evaluated
options for supplying power to the site, including on-site power
generation, and have concluded that connecting to the existing
power grid represents the best outcome from a sustainability,
community, risk and financial perspective. The power line option
has the advantage of eliminating potentially significant greenhouse
gas emissions related to on-site power generation, significantly
reducing the volumes of fuel to be transported to site and related
road traffic, reducing noise, providing a long term benefit to
communities along the route through improved and more reliable
infrastructure, while providing Midas Gold with access to a
reliable, long term, low cost source of energy.
- Process Facilities - Midas Gold is looking to locate the
potential process facilities near the Scout deposit and former town
site of Stibnite as opposed to at the site considered in the PEA.
This new location is set back significantly further from existing
creeks, places the infrastructure on exposed competent bedrock
(where there is lower geotechnical risk for foundations), moves it
off forested wetlands and moves it closer to the centre of gravity
for the project. While this location may impact the potential
future development options for the Scout mineralization discovered
in 2012, it may not preclude the underground extraction of
relatively shallow, high grade antimony-gold-silver mineralization
defined in the Scout area, should a mineral resource be defined and
further evaluation demonstrate potential for an attractive economic
return.
- Comminution & Materials Handling - The PEA assumed that the
project would utilize a gyratory crusher to feed the SAG-Ball mill
combination to achieve the desired particle size at 20,000 tonnes
per day; however, subsequent engineering analysis and metallurgical
testing support the choice of a single jaw crusher, resulting in
reduced capital costs for the crusher as compared to a gyratory
crusher. This jaw crusher would feed into the same SAG-Ball mill
combination selected in the PEA. Recently completed confirmatory
test work has also identified unanticipated higher variability in
hardness within portions of the deposits that needs to be modelled
in order to ensure a balanced mill feed. As noted in its September
9, 2013 news release, Midas Gold had also been evaluating the
potential to utilize conveyors to move material from the pits to
the mill and/or waste dumps. A recently completed trade-off study
compared the life-cycle cost of crushing and conveying ore and
waste rock to the plant and waste rock storage facility,
respectively, versus trucking. While the discounted costs between
the two options was within the error of the estimates (for both
waste rock and ore), trucking yielded an appreciably lower capital
cost with much greater operational flexibility, as well as less
exposure to potential avalanche and landslide hazards, and will
form the basis of the PFS.
- Flotation Recoveries & Leach Tests - Appreciable laboratory
testing has been dedicated to achieving the right economic balance
between grind size, gold/antimony rougher flotation, gold/antimony
cleaner flotation, gold scavenger flotation, and leaching of the
oxidized gold concentrate and flotation tailings. The outcome of
these tests has been to:
- Justify marginally finer grind sizes resulting in overall
marginally improved gold recoveries in flotation, and the potential
to directly feed rougher flotation concentrates from the Hangar
Flats and Yellow Pine deposits to the pressure oxidation circuit
for a significant portion of the contemplated project life, thereby
reducing the risk of gold losses during subsequent cleaner
flotation steps, while still having sufficient sulphur to sustain
autothermic reactions in the pressure oxidation circuit.
- A flotation cleaner circuit for West End concentrates would
still be required, but would have the added benefit of allowing the
rejection of excess carbonate from West End concentrates, the
presence of which could reduce the effectiveness of the pressure
oxidation circuit. However, this cleaning step has demonstrated
sufficient carbonate rejection to eliminate the need for the
capital and operating costs related to the acidulation circuit that
were included in the PEA.
- Midas Gold and its consultants have also concluded that
providing for leaching the tailings after flotation early in the
mine life would give additional operational flexibility, potential
for enhanced gold recoveries and reduce the risk of leachable gold
bypassing the flotation recovery circuit. This approach would also
allow oxides to be processed when the pressure oxidation circuit is
down for maintenance (usually about 10-15% of the year),
facilitating gold production during these periods.
- Concentrate Oxidation - While flotation to produce gold-pyrite
concentrates remains at the centre of the contemplated processing
facility for the potential project, options for the onsite
oxidation of the concentrates produced had previously indicated
that bio-oxidation ("BiOx") may have been a preferred alternative
to pressure oxidation ("POx") of those concentrates. However,
subsequent test work, combined with evaluation from an
environmental, technical and financial perspective, has resulted in
POx being selected as the preferred methodology as it generates
more environmentally stable tailings products, has demonstrated
more reliable and higher metallurgical recoveries, is less
vulnerable to process upset and, overall, generates better
economics. Results of recent analysis test work have also provided
considerable additional data in respect of sulphur, carbonate,
silica and other minor metals that need to be modelled in order to
balance mill feed to match the capacity and capabilities of the
planned process facilities. A significant cost in the PEA related
to the POx of concentrates was related to the neutralization of the
POx solutions before leaching, however, subsequent work has
determined that the flotation tailings can accomplish most of the
neutralization and this neutralization could be supplemented by a
local source of on-site, high quality limestone defined and tested
during 2013.
- Secondary Antimony Processing - The PEA assumed production of
an antimony concentrate that would be shipped offshore for
processing. Given the relatively low payability and high
transportation costs associated with such an option, Midas Gold and
its consultants have conducted an extensive program to evaluate the
potential for offsite but still US-based processing of such
concentrates through the leaching of the concentrates and
electrowinning of metallic antimony from the solutions.
Optimization of the process continues, but test results have
demonstrated ~99% solubilisation of the antimony in the leach
circuit and have successfully produced high quality electrowon
antimony. Optimization and locked cycle tests in support of this
option continue. Midas Gold anticipates that the base case for PFS
will, for simplicity, assume production and shipment of
concentrates overseas, as in the PEA, but will set out an option
case for the production of metallic antimony or other saleable
antimony compounds (antimony trioxide or sodium antimonite) that
can be evaluated and advanced, potentially in cooperation with
partners.
The above ten areas represent just a portion of the project
optimization activities undertaken during the 18 months since
completion of the PEA, and work continues in a number of areas in
order to fully optimize the project from a variety of
perspectives.
2014 Outlook
As previously reported, the primary focus for Midas Gold has
been the updating of mineral resource estimates and on preparing a
preliminary feasibility study. The updated mineral resource
estimates will incorporate the results of all drilling completed
since the PEA and are now anticipated to be completed around the
end of Q2/14 in order to incorporate a number of additional
parameters needed to support the mineral processing aspects of the
project. The PFS will take these updated mineral resource estimates
and incorporate the results of the extensive, post-PEA
metallurgical testing, geotechnical, environmental and engineering
work (the results of some of which are discussed above) with the
objective of defining a more fully optimized project. The results
of the PFS are anticipated to be available in the summer of 2014,
but the schedule is dependent on the timing for the completion of
the mineral resource estimates and various other aspects of the
trade-off studies (some of which are discussed above), and may be
extended into the fall.
As previously reported with the closing of a financing in Q1/14,
Midas Gold believes it has sufficient cash resources to fund the
Company's activities, including the on-going exploration and
evaluation of the Golden Meadows Project and general working
capital, into 2016.
Quality Assurance
The technical information in this news release has been prepared
in accordance with Canadian regulatory requirements set out in
National Instrument 43-101 ("NI43-101") and reviewed and approved
by Stephen P. Quin, P. Geo., President and CEO of Midas Gold Corp.,
and a Qualified Person.
About Midas Gold and the Golden Meadows Project
Midas Gold Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiaries Midas
Gold Inc. and Idaho Gold Resources, LLC, is focused on the
exploration and, if warranted, development of deposits in the
StibniteâYellow Pine district of central Idaho. The principal gold
deposits identified to date within the Project are the Hangar
Flats, West End and Yellow Pine deposits, all of which are
associated with important structural corridors, as well as a
recently announced mineral resource contained in historic tailings.
Independent mineral resource estimates were reported for all three
lode deposits in a news release dated June 27, 2012 and are
detailed in a consolidated technical report entitled
"Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report for the
Golden Meadows Project, Idaho" dated August 15, 2012 (the
"Technical Report"), which is available on Midas Gold's website at
www.midasgoldcorp.com or under Midas Gold's profile on SEDAR at
www.sedar.com. The Preliminary Economic Assessment outlines one
concept for the development of a large scale, long life, low cost
open pit gold mining operation producing gold and by-product
antimony based on the estimated mineral resource, as well as
outlining a number of opportunities for potential enhancement of
the conceptual project.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this news release that are not
historical facts are "forward-looking information" or
"forward-looking statements" (collectively, "Forward-Looking
Information") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities
legislation and the United States Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Forward Looking Information includes, but
is not limited to, disclosure regarding possible events, conditions
or financial performance that is based on assumptions about future
economic conditions and courses of action; the timing and costs of
future exploration activities on the Corporation's properties;
success of exploration activities; permitting time lines and
requirements, requirements for additional capital, requirements for
additional water rights and the potential effect of proposed
notices of environmental conditions relating to mineral claims;
planned exploration and development of properties and the results
thereof; planned expenditures and budgets and the execution
thereof. In certain cases, Forward-Looking Information can be
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"expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget",
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"potential" or "does not anticipate", "believes", "anomalous" or
variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain
actions, events or results "may", "may not", "could", "would",
"should", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved".
Statements concerning mineral resource estimates may also be deemed
to constitute forward-looking statements to the extent that they
involve estimates of the mineralization that may be encountered if
the Golden Meadows Project is developed. In making the
forward-looking statements in this news release, the Corporation
has applied several material assumptions, including, but not
limited to, that the current exploration and other objectives
concerning the Golden Meadows Project can be achieved and that its
other corporate activities will proceed as expected; that the
current price and demand for gold will be sustained or will
improve; that general business and economic conditions will not
change in a materially adverse manner and that all necessary
governmental approvals for the planned exploration on the Golden
Meadows Project will be obtained in a timely manner and on
acceptable terms; the continuity of the price of gold and other
metals, economic and political conditions and operations.
Forward-Looking Information involves known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results,
performance or achievements of the Corporation to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by the Forward-Looking Information. Such risks
and other factors include, among others, risks related to the
availability of financing on commercially reasonable terms and the
expected use of proceeds; operations and contractual obligations;
changes in exploration programs based upon results of exploration;
changes in estimated mineral resources; future prices of metals;
availability of third party contractors; availability of equipment;
failure of equipment to operate as anticipated; accidents, effects
of weather and other natural phenomena and other risks associated
with the mineral exploration industry; environmental risks,
including environmental matters under U.S. federal and Idaho rules
and regulations; impact of environmental remediation requirements
and the terms of existing and potential consent decrees on the
Corporation's planned exploration on the Golden Meadows Project;
certainty of mineral title; community relations; delays in
obtaining governmental approvals or financing; fluctuations in
mineral prices; the Corporation's dependence on one mineral
project; the nature of mineral exploration and mining and the
uncertain commercial viability of certain mineral deposits; the
Corporation's lack of operating revenues; governmental regulations
and the ability to obtain necessary licenses and permits; risks
related to mineral properties being subject to prior unregistered
agreements, transfers or claims and other defects in title;
currency fluctuations; changes in environmental laws and
regulations and changes in the application of standards pursuant to
existing laws and regulations which may increase costs of doing
business and restrict operations; risks related to dependence on
key personnel; and estimates used in financial statements proving
to be incorrect; as well as those factors discussed in the
Corporation's public disclosure record. Although the Corporation
has attempted to identify important factors that could affect the
Corporation and may cause actual actions, events or results to
differ materially from those described in Forward-Looking
Information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events
or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There
can be no assurance that Forward-Looking Information will prove to
be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ
materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly,
readers should not place undue reliance on Forward-Looking
Information. Except as required by law, the Corporation does not
assume any obligation to release publicly any revisions to
Forward-Looking Information contained in this news release to
reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect
the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Note to US Investors
This news release has been prepared in accordance with the
requirements of the securities laws in effect in Canada, which
differ from the requirements of United States securities laws. The
terms "mineral resource", "indicated mineral resource" and
"inferred mineral resource" are defined in and required to be
disclosed by NI 43-101; however, these terms are not defined terms
under SEC Industry Guide 7 and are normally not permitted to be
used in reports and registration statements filed with the SEC.
Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of
mineral deposits in these categories will ever be converted into
reserves. "Inferred mineral resources" have a great amount of
uncertainty as to their existence, and great uncertainty as to
their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all
or any part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded
to a higher category. Under Canadian rules, estimates of inferred
mineral resources may not form the basis of feasibility or
pre-feasibility studies, except in rare cases. Investors are
cautioned not to assume that all or any part of an inferred mineral
resource exists or is economically or legally mineable. Disclosure
of "contained ounces" in a resource is permitted disclosure under
Canadian regulations; however, the SEC normally only permits
issuers to report mineralization that does not constitute
"reserves" by SEC Industry Guide 7 standards as in place tonnage
and grade without reference to unit measures. "Indicated mineral
resource" and "inferred mineral resource" have a great amount of
uncertainty as to their existence and a great uncertainty as to
their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all
or any part of an "indicated mineral resource" or "inferred mineral
resource" will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Investors are
cautioned not to assume that any part or all of mineral deposits in
these categories will ever be converted into reserves. Accordingly,
information contained in this News Release contain descriptions of
the Company's mineral deposits that may not be comparable to
similar information made public by U.S. companies subject to the
reporting and disclosure requirements under the United States
federal securities laws and the rules and regulations there
under.
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