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Bardoc Gold's hopes of increasing the forecast mine life of its namesake multi-deposit gold project near Kalgoorlie in WA have been buoyed by recent encouraging extensional and infill drilling results. Best numbers from the latest diamond drill hits from gold-bearing lodes in the key Zoroastrian deposit area are 4.5m grading 3.53 g/t gold from 102m, 1m at 11.7 g/t from 466m and 6m at 2.44 g/t from 460m.

ASX-listed aspiring gold developer Bardoc Gold has revised its cash-flow optimisation strategy and brought forward development of its cornerstone Aphrodite deposit which will increase early profits and free cash flows from its proposed Bardoc gold mine in WA. The revised plan will increase the forecast gold production to 150,000 ounces of gold per year by year three of the initial five-year plan.

Bardoc Gold is crouched and ready to take that elusive leap from gold explorer to producer after the company locked in engineering group GR Engineering as preferred tenderer for the construction of a stand-alone gold processing plant at its namesake Bardoc project north of Kalgoorlie. The move follows hard on the heels of Bardoc initiating a “cash-flow optimisation” study on the multi-deposit gold project.

Bardoc Gold has pivoted towards front-loading gold production and cash flows into the first five years of its proposed Bardoc mining and processing operations in WA. The company says it has kicked off a cash-flow optimisation study that will run the ruler over increasing the projected annual gold production rate, margins and free cash flows across the first five years of Bardoc's forecast life of mine.

Bardoc Gold is striking promising returns on two fronts. The ASX-listed company is embarking on a major drilling program at its flagship Zoroastrian deposit north of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in a bid for a substantial expansion of its resource and it has been unearthing significant gold mineralisation in drilling at its North Kanowna Star project. The results are seen as important for the potential size of the reserve and mine life across Bardoc's operation.

Bardoc Gold continues to kick goals at its 1.7-million-ounce Aphrodite gold deposit in WA, with recent drilling returning a quiver of high-grade gold hits that sit outside the current ore reserve and pit design. Results come from the newly discovered Omega lode include 14 metres at 7.63 grams per tonne gold from 106m and 5m at 3.99 g/t gold from only 67m down-hole.

More shallow high-grade drill hits continue to highlight the resource extension potential at emerging WA gold developer Bardoc Gold's 1.7-million-ounce Aphrodite gold deposit north of Kalgoorlie that cornerstones the 3.07m ounce Bardoc project the company is moving towards a 2022 production start. The drilling underlines the latent prospectivity of Bardoc Gold's large land position in the middle of the prolific Kalgoorlie-Menzies area.

Bardoc Gold has released a cracking definitive feasibility study on its proposed Bardoc gold mining and processing operation approximately 40 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie. The company says the recent financial study shows the Bardoc gold mine spitting out an average of $113 million a year in free cash flows based on a total recovered gold target of 1.1 million ounces across an initial processing life of about eight years.