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Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Thank you, Rick, great presentation. Before I turn to our panelists, I'd like to start with a question. Rick. You founded NOVAGOLD, Alexco, Trilogy,
Sandfire USA, which was formerly Tintina. How do you compare Contango to these other companies that you founded?
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: We won't tell them, right. We'll keep it [to us]. All right, we're going to go, turn to our panelists, now let's start with [Bob Hermanos]. Bob, good to
have you on the call. Questions for Rick. He's just being unmuted.
Unidentified Participant
Yeah, hi. Can you hear me?
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Thank you, Bob. We will then turn to [Murray Vanderbilt]. Murray, questions today for Rick.
Unidentified Participant
There we go. Okay, can you hear me all right?
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Thanks for being on the call, Murray. Do we have [Marshall Barrow] on the line with us? Marshall sometimes dials in. Okay. Let's turn to Mickey Faul.
Mickey is on the line with us.
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Thank you, Mickey, for your, as always participation. We're going to turn to [Scott]. He's got a question from [John Bowman]. Scott?
Unidentified Participant
Yeah. Hi, can you hear me? The question is, could you give some color on why a straightforward seeming open pit on which the resource is defined
and on which Kinross is comfortable with the metallurgy require such a high cost pre-feas and lengthy regulatory lead time?
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Thank you for your questions, Chris. I was just going to turn to Doug Loud. Doug, anything come up for you that you'd like to ask?
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Thanks. So Rick you said the Tetlin tribe is happy with your arrangement.
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Right. Rick, we're just going to before we proceed to close, pull back, look at kind of the macro moment with all the changes in US administration
expected in 2021, how do you see this affecting the permitting timeline for the Peak Gold project?
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Rick, that's great, (technical difficulty) talked about companies, could you just stress your experience in Alaska. I mean, your background on Alaska
is so extensive. I think we should just here a little bit about that first.
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Exactly. Last question I have to ask it, what do you think about the gold market, Rick?
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Great. Great presentation, Rick. We'll proceed to close now. So for any closing remarks and then we'll, yeah.
Question: David Mandy - O&M Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Thank you, Rick, thank you for presenting. I want to appreciate everyone for attending this afternoon, and we will also be following up with you
on feedback. So again, thanks so much for your attendance. Have a nice day.
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