Excerpt from the B2 CCFunny I kind of thought the 1st holes would be out today?
Exploration has always been a big part of our world and a part of our success since we started this company 15 years ago, and we have some very exciting opportunities, not only around the existing mines, but we've had great success in turning inferred into indicated, finding new reserves but also new targets in addition to existing terms, extending about them on our properties. We've got a great success, track record and success of exploration at existing properties.
It was all -- we're still very global in our view on our beliefs that the cheapest ounces will always be the ones you find. So we have some exciting exploration projects in our budget, and [Technical Difficulty] this year, about 60% of that would be on brownfields exploration and the rest is to look at some grassroots targets.
So exciting results came out today from Orion, our partner in Finland,we’re the operator, we've been doing the drilling, and I think the guys who – will ask some questions on that. It sounds like the leadership group is pretty excited about early days, but excited about the potential, given the discovery that they've made and given our -- not only our proximity being right on the boundary but the kind of results we're starting to see, so much more else to come there.
Full release if you care to read or listen.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4506989-b2gold-corp-btg-ceo-clive-johnson-on-q1-2022-results-ear