Intermin Resources Limited provided a mining operations update for the Teal Gold Mine located 11km north west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia. Open pit mining commenced on 2 November on single shift with a total of 491,437BCM mined to date. Drill and blast was required to improve productivity through the caprock layer at surface with the material used to complete road construction and sheeting. Free dig operations continued below the caprock with mining now on double shift. Mining has focussed on the northern section of the pit (where the ore is closest to surface) to expose the grade control level and enable close space drilling to commence ahead of ore mark-up. During the drilling, the southern section of the pit will be mined enabling continuous operations with the larger excavators. On completion of the northern section grade control drilling and geological modelling in January, mining will recommence with the smaller 1250 excavator on ore to minimise ore dilution and the larger 1800 excavator on waste to maximise productivity. Grade control drilling for the entire northern section has now commenced with completion expected in 7 days. Assay return and geological modelling for ore mark-up will then be completed ahead of first ore production in late January. The two stage reverse circulation (RC) grade control drilling program has been adopted to ensure continuous mining operations and to reach the shallowest part of the ore body in the northern section of the pit. The total program will comprise 542 close spaced vertical holes (8m X 5m) for approximately 12,740m and provide detailed information on ore block grade, tonnage, geometry and material type. Grade control drilling is being conducted by highly experienced Kalgoorlie based contractors VM Drilling and BM Geological Services with sample analysis completed by Bureau Veritas Laboratories. Assay turnaround from the laboratory is expected to be 3-5 days and once received detailed geological interpretation and grade modelling will commence. Individual mine claim ore batch design will then be undertaken and detailed ore mining and delivery schedule to the Paddington ROM pad (Paddington) finalised. Currently the construction of individual ore batches (5,000 - 10,000t in size) will be delivered to Paddington on a continuous basis from the end of January and processing will commence immediately upon delivery. Approximately 17% of the tonnage of each ore batch will be processed through a dedicated sampling plant where accurate grade, tonnage, moisture and recovery data will be determined and used to reconcile against the mine claimed ore batch for payment. Under the terms of the Paddington Agreement (announced to the ASX on 27 July 2016), Paddington will pay 50% gross revenue based on 80% of the mine predicted grade within 15 days and the remainder on completion of final grade, moisture, metallurgical recovery and cost reconciliation within the following 6 weeks.