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13.1 Metallurgical Testwork Material from the Dome Mine was processed in two separate batches at the Nicola mill in Merritt BC. The first batch was processed from June 13 to September 12, 2016, and the second batch from October 12 to November 16, 2016. Approximately 100 wet metric tonnes of material were processed each day through the mill. The material was transported from Smithers B.C. to Merritt via haul trucks and were weighted at the mill site on a truck scale. The first batch of ore weighed 4,583 wet tonnes and the second batch was 2,108 wet tonnes for a total of 6,691 tonnes. At the mill, processing involved crushing, grinding, conditioning, rougher, scavenger and cleaning flotation and filtering of the flotation concentrate. The material was crushed to minus 3/8 inches and ground in a 6.5 ft x 10 ft ball mill. The average grind was 90 microns or 75% minus 200 mesh. The mineralized material was then conditioned with reagents and floated. The rougher flotation concentrate was cleaned to produce a cleaner concentrate. The recovery in the second batch of ore was higher than the first batch primarily due to additional reagents added to the scavenger cells. The average flotation time in the mill was 88 minutes at 4 tonnes/hour. The cleaner concentrates were shipped to a smelter in China. A flow sheet of the mill is shown on (Figure 13.1). The gold recoveries for both batches were estimated at 91.0% for the first batch and 95.3% for the second batch for an overall recovery of 92.6. Silver recoveries were not estimated as there were no assays on the heads and tails. Gold assays for the heads and tails were done at ALS Labs in Kamloops, BC. The Company is currently carrying out a second test milling project at the Nicola Mill. Trucking of the Dome Mountain mineralized material, began on June 14, 2021, and over 4,000 tonnes of the Dome Mountain mineralized material has been delivered to the Nicola mill in Merritt. Processing is on-going but to date, 136.8 tonnes of concentrate averaging 92 g/t gold and 477 g/t silver has been produced and shipped (Blue Lagoon News Release, September 16, 2021).