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Welcome to Gold One

Gold One International Limited is a dual listed (ASX/JSE: GDO) mid-tier mining group with gold operations and gold and uranium prospects across Southern Africa, and is focused on developing and mining low technical risk, high margin precious metal resources in diversified jurisdictions. The company’s flagship Modder East gold mine, commissioned in 2009, distinguishes itself from most other gold mines in South Africa owing to its shallow nature (300 to 500 metres below surface.)

During 2012 the Modder East Operations continued to ramp up in production and produced 97,958 ounces of gold at an average cash cost of US$ 686/oz during 2012. This was derived from 474,754 Black Reef milled tonnes at an average recovered grade of 6.00 grams per tonne as well as from the milling of 139,887 tonnes of low grade development ore and waste with an average recovered grade of 1.43 grams per tonne. The Modder East Metallurgical Plant maintained recoveries of 95% for 2012.

At the beginning of 2012 the Gold One Group expanded with the acquisition of Rand Uranium (Pty) Limited, which comprised the Cooke 1, 2 and 3 Underground Operations and the Cooke surface assets (now known as the Randfontein Surface Operations) located in the West Rand, 30 kilometres from Johannesburg. Through Gold One’s purchase of Rand Uranium, the company also acquired one of the world’s most advanced uranium projects, which envisages recovering uranium, gold and sulphur from the above surface Cooke Tailings Dam. The Cooke Tailings Facility has a code compliant resource of 0.8 million ounces of gold and 34 million pounds of uranium. This exciting opportunity is being further explored with Sibanye Gold Limited as part of a larger surface retreatment strategy on the West Rand.

During mid-2012 Gold One also completed its transaction with the First Uranium Corporation and acquired 100% of the Ezulwini Mining Company (Pty) Limited, giving the company access to gold and uranium processing plants with nameplate capacities of 200,000 and 100,000 tonnes per month respectively. Ezulwini (now known as Cooke 4) is contiguous to the company’s Cooke Underground and Randfontein Surface Operations and forms part of the Cooke Underground Operations. Access to the uranium production facility allows for near term production of uranium from underground ore mined at Cooke. In addition, the sharing of services between Cooke 4 and Cooke 1-3 facilitates a reduction in operating costs.

For the 2012 year the Cooke 1-3 Underground Operations produced 98,451 ounces of gold at an average cash cost of US$ 1,558/oz. This production was derived from the treatment of 961,802 milled tonnes at an average recovered grade of 3.17 grams per tonne as well as from the treatment of 39,650 milled tonnes of low grade development and waste material at an average recovered grade of 0.34 grams per tonne. Plant recoveries for the operation were 95% for the 2012 year. Since Gold One assumed managerial control of Cooke 4, the operation produced gold in the months of August, September and December 2012 only due to illegal industrial action that temporarily halted the operation during October and November. For the three months 8,493 ounces were produced. Total production for 2012 comprised 82,951 milled tonnes at an average recovered grade of 3.18 grams per tonne. Due to the fact that the metallurgical plant was stopped for two months during the illegal industrial action, plant recoveries averaged 82% over the reporting period.

The Randfontein Surface Operations produced 36,853 ounces for the 2012 year from 3,286,633 milled tonnes at an average cash cost of US$ 1,137/oz. Recovered grades averaged 0.349 grams per tonne, with a gold recovery rate of 72% for 2012.

The Gold One Group is majority-owned by a consortium comprising Baiyin Non-Ferrous Group Co. Limited, the China-Africa Development Fund, and Long March Capital Limited, and has an issued share capital of 1,416,538,989 shares.