All Eyes on Predictive’s Bankan

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Right, let's get into it. Predictive Discovery have just had 69,000,000 buckaroos strategically placed into their company by. Lundeen and Zijin ohh. This the bloody there a bit of an ex partnership too we'll get into later. Yeah. So yeah, like like you said Maddie, $69 million placement, 26 and a half cents, which is so it's basically done at yesterday's close on the 3rd of Feb, small premiums to the five

and 30 day view UPS. But more importantly, who, who tipped in said the Lundeen family, very well known mining family and and investors they put in around 45,000,000 bucks for a 6 1/2% stake in Predictive. And then Seijin also, you know, very well known global miner headquartered in China invested around $24 million for a 3 1/2 percent stake in Predictive. So all those funds are going towards pretty much taking predictive through to final

investment decisions. So advancing the DFS at their project bank and progress progressing enviro social programs, regional exploration and and some early development activities as well. So they'll have $98 million post completion of this rise cash in the bank and. And bloody all there, well there all time is it Heist have traded in five years, $0.30. They're up, they're up 13% on

the news. But I guess the more interesting part is for people that don't know is that will until today ASX listed Perseus, we're a 20% shareholder predictive now being diluted back down to about 17 and a bit. But that is where it's interesting. Perseus looks like that, looked like they had their foot on it. Maybe is a bit of a must, probably more of a nice to have, not a must have. But this has really thrown a spanner in the works. Maybe, but we will get into

that. Yeah, Yeah. So the, the competitive landscapes certainly change there. But yeah, so as you said, Maddie like it's it's traded as high as you know $0.30 to up, you know, about 13% on off the back of the news. So I thought it'd be useful just to do a quick refresher on predictive and and bank and for for the money miners. So predictive, they've got about $700 million market cap today.

They have the Bankhand Gold project in Guinea, which is 85% owned by the company, 15% by the Guinea government, about a 5.4 million oz resource, around a 3 million oz reserve, predominantly open pit with some underground grading about sort of 1.6g a tonne. Yeah, right. Go take us through, take me through the PFS. Give me the just rattle the numbers off. Alrighty, so they. I'm interested. They did that on relatively recently.

So they sort of outlined a 269,000 oz per annum sort of average production profile over 12 years and that's at an all in sustaining life of mine of about US $1100.00 an ounce post tax MPV five US 1.4 billion and that's assuming AUS 2300 gold price. It's obviously fair bit high now for AUS 456,000,000 pre production CapEx.

Yeah, right. So this, I guess this is one of now that Perseus got Nianzaga, it's like it's one of the better undeveloped projects that we sort of see listed over here in Africa. Yeah, Yeah. So we, we did an episode on undeveloped gold assets in Africa actually last September. And at that time, which I still understand is, is the case, Bancan is the biggest undeveloped gold asset in Africa based on sort of resource answers where that asset is the company's primary focus.

So, you know, basically not in a portfolio of a, you know, producer that's got multiple assets. Montage's Konai is a close second, but they have a bigger reserve than Predictive. But we'll get to Montage in Konai in a little bit. Oh mate, a big bloody, a big open pit like this. Jeez. I don't know who the Ghanaian bloody equivalent of MMS is, but they need to start tenderer and on this maybe bloody, maybe MMS could franchise out into Guinea, into Guinea.

I know we keep plugging them to go overseas to do those projects, but they probably they mightn't want to, but they might consider franchising out as like open pit mining and technical expertise to just start ripping this shit out and making some money. Well, they are putting that DFS together predictive for bank hands. So MMS might provide some costs just to help bit of a technical help with it. You never know.

Like they're mate the Ridge. He did Rolls Royce of open pit mining and tech services contracting is mineral bloody mining service. Can you believe this? The trajectory of them, they've actually gone up before the gold price MMS they. Preceded the gold price rise. The gold price followed them right? Normally contractors need a commodity price tower win to get going, not MMS. Bloody what a bloody business.

So love it. The band can project it's it's 'cause they've got, they're pretty much 80% there on the approval side, aren't they? They've got like the environmental approvals done. It's just gotta be sort of rubber stamped by the bloody government. Yeah. So they got the enviro approvals last month and so they're expecting they're, they call it like an exploitation or a mining permit in the in the next three

to six months. As I mentioned, they're, they're working on completing a DFS on Pancam, which is scheduled to complete later this sort of calendar year with the idea being that they, you know, be in sort of construction phase 2627 with production in 2028. And as you mentioned, Maddie Perseus, yes, they, they have a strategic stake in predictive which they got last year 19.9% and a large chunk of that stake was acquired from a few Predictive shareholders.

Jamie Boynton, Capital Drilling and Philip Perry. So pretty much the the majority of that 19919.9% stake was from then. And the the the sale, there's a sale agreement that was basically put together for acquiring the shares from those those groups. And I'll just touch on a couple of the key terms of those sale agreements. So there's a a profit share arrangement whereby Perseus and the sellers will share 5050 on the profit if Perseus sells any of the acquired shares in

predictive to a third party. So like a potential competing a bidder or a private sale. But this deal sort of expires the 31st of December this year. There's also a a call option. So if Perseus makes a takeover off of a predictive part of 31st December this year at a price greater than $0.21 a share, then the sellers can get those shares, acquire those, back those shares and accept the offer or cancel the call option for a cash fee equal to the premium.

So what does this mean? In a nutshell, the sellers basically maintain some level of upside optionality in the event that Perseus or some other third party deal occurs above $0.21 a share by the end of this year. Yeah. So if so, those sellers really want something to happen this year because otherwise they lose that. The ability to share in the upside. Lose the profit chair. So if they bloody Perseus or if there's a taken out fast December.

Oh that'd be spiel. Imagine if it's like January you'd be. Like 2nd of January, yeah. Oh. Be frustrating, wouldn't it be? Bloody demo. But yeah, so, so looking at now the the register will flash up a picture of the current register. So you know, Percy use BlackRock and a sort of a range of institutions there. So as part of this, you know, new capitalising announced today. So that'll dial all those guys back a little bit. So the Percy stake I think will go to about 17.9%.

BlackRock will kind of go down to about 12%. But then you're adding Lundinin 6 1/2 percent, adding Zijin 3 1/2 percent. God, this is. Bloody reputable register. Jesus Christ. Lot of big names there, that's for sure. So where Lundin and Zijin this is? This ain't their first rodeo together, is it? No. No, it's not the first African

gold developer. We've seen both of those names on the register for and the other one is who we spoke about before, which is Montage Gold who have the the Kona Gold project. So I'll give a bit of background on on Montage. So Montage the Kona project. So they've got a resource space of about 5.3 million oz at .6g a ton and around a 4 million oz reserve at about .7g per ton. This open pit they put out ADFS last year. So average production profile of about 220,000 oz per annum over

16 years. All and sustaining life of mine of around 1000 bucks US an ounce. US 1 1/2 billion post tax MPV 5 at US 2050 gold price again you know obviously fair bit higher now and and pre production capital of US 712 million. Look, it is obviously lower grade compared to bank hand, but kind of has quite a low stripping ratio of about roughly 1.2 to one versus bank hands sort of mid force. Yeah, right. So they've they've got enviro approval already last year.

Yeah. So they're almost like a a sort of similar trajectory to sort of bank hand and and predictive. They're almost sort of like a few steps ahead. So talking through 2024, last year Kodo got enviro approval in May, they got their mining permit approval in July.

Shortly after that, they did a strategic placement, Canadian $170 million of which you know included some participation from Zijin. They did a Canadian 57 million for a 9.9% stake in Montage, and the London family, who were an existing shareholder, topped up Canadian 43 million to increase their stake to 19.9%. Yeah, right. And then sort of later that year in October they announced AUS 825,000,000 funding package to basically get Cone in

production. There was a large chunk of that was from Wheaton and and Zijin sort of participated in that funding package as well to a smaller extent. They actually commenced construction in December just gone and they're expecting first gold Q2 2027. And I mean, you look at the the Montage share price of the last 12 months, it's just been absolutely killing it, you know, over over 200% in the last. Yeah.

But yeah, funnily enough, Perseus actually had around a 10% stake in Montage, which it picked up by its acquisition of Orca. But it's sold that last year to fund the acquisition of their position in Predictive. So there's like all these like random connections and stuff is quite, quite fascinating. Yeah, right. So and so I guess what's this mean for predictive? Are we, is it who's who's going to bloody take it over? Who's going to operate it like, what's it what's what's

happening here now? Josie? Oh. I mean the decision and the hypothetical situation trays just like massive, right. But I mean, one thing is for certain is that the competitive landscape has has certainly amped up. I think it's a good question. You know who, who's you got all these sort of strategic shareholders now on the register, but who's, who is really going to develop banking?

Is it going to be predictive? Is it going to be one or a combination of the strategic shareholders on the register or is it perhaps someone where we're yet to say, you know, these strategic shareholders who are on the register at the minute, they've got a pretty strong financial backing and, you know, operational experience to to build and operate banking

predictive. You know, they still got to grapple with, you know, the US 450 million odd CapEx hurdle based on the PFS, which I mean is roughly equivalent to their market cap at the minute. But in saying that, you know, montage had a similar conundrum of that sort of market cap to CapEx ratio. And you know, they, they secured their funding pretty much all through gold streams and other financing and some equity as well.

So certainly, certainly can be done, but I think a good question which you sort of raised at the the top of the segment is from a Perseus perspective, is predictive a necessity for them or is it a nice to have?

Yeah, and it's looking like that is the case because it's like unless Zejin and Lundin want Perseus to be the operator of it or they're taking stakes to now, you know, pave the way for a like a, a Xiao Jin or a Shindong or buddy, you know, a Chinese player to come in and take it over fully. That that's the key decision there. And if it looks like there's if it's going to require bloody competitive tension, I don't think Percy is going to consider. And they got Nyanzaga.

They got the same a underground at a or a lot. I don't think they got enough on their plate to not have to bloody overpay for for this asset. They might just take their whether it happens this year, if they can hold out a year and take the full upside instead of having to share. Yeah, it works out great, right? Other shareholders, that'd be perfect for them and just take the upside of their bloody initial 20% stake.

Yeah. So I mean they are still the biggest shareholder around, you know 17.9% like you said, they've got plenty going on in their own backyard. I don't think they're going to be silly with this any, any M&A, but you know, they could just, if takeover offer came from somewhere else and they didn't want to compete against it, they could just make, make, make some money on their investment.

But if they did want to go for it, I think they'd have to get both Lundin and Zijin on side because the sum of those two respective shareholdings represents around 10%, which is effectively a neat blocking site. But then it's like would Lundin or Zijin or both of them actually, you know, go from a minority interest to a full blown, you know, takeover, M&A, that sort of thing? You know, they're in a sort of similar situation with with

Kanye or Montage at the minute. They're both sort of, you know, strategic shareholders, but they haven't sort of taken the next step on that one. Does it mean that might do the similar, similar here? Not sure. Who knows who bloody no. So I think it's kind of, yeah, that timing thing will be interesting to see how quickly the if the Chinese do ACT, if it will be within this year and if that changes, you know, the strategy.

Because I think there's a bit of simple maths behind Perseus as play depending on if it's before or after December. Yeah. And also, you know, there might be, like you said, there might be others waiting the winds who have played in this space before, like Xiao Jin and

Shandong, you know. But you know, we'll now that that the landscape has gotten a little more competitive, you know, I don't know that if if you were keen to sort of go for it, I don't know that you'd really want to be waiting that long because it's a lot more competitive now. So you know, will they act before predictive get their mining permit or will they act sooner or they just go, no, you know what, we're happy just to have exposure to this asset via

an investment. Yeah, yeah, I'd love to see a bit of a bloody Bang, Bang, bang. Bang, oh, like the Cardinal deal back in the day, that was just madness. But in any event, predictive, you know, they've got 98 million, you know, bucks of cash, you know, so it's it's important for, you know, a prospective target to get to be well funded during a, you know, potentially competitive M and a period. So regardless of what may or may not happen, that's that's pretty

important for them. So getting that cash in the door. Gosh, it's a bloody bought something today. Ohh, it's. Crazy. I might. Have a look see tomorrow so. Yeah, battle. Battle for bank can. Battle for Band can and bloody Ohh. I'll tell you what is just as good as the Battle of Band can. The also I'm in underground operators conference that is coming up 6th and 9th of April in Adelaide. Adelaide you'd say Australias home of Uranium. SA is this.

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these guys, they might merge with Encounter. No need too many tonnes, bloody WA one. What did they put out today? Mate up 13 a bit percent GC they're being a bit you be, they're being tracking, just being they're being in a channel. You'd say bloody. Yeah, they kind of have been, have they, when you look at their share price?

Yeah, they, they, so they announced they're completed their first conversion test work on refined niobium concentrate for Looney to produce a ferro niobium product. So they used to concentrate produced from the 7th of October MET results that I'll bring up here. They've ran that through the final pyrometallurgical stage, not a bit like just in a bloody in a met lab. And they've come back with a ferro niobium product that has 65.7% niobium and 24 and a bit percent on.

So recovery was 84% during this pyromet stage with they which they said exceeded their expectations due to being such a small scale. Sure. You like your current operations like CBMM get around 95% for this pyromet stage as an FYI, but that's that's different to the overall recovery. So you can see you based on existing operations in Brazil and Canada, they said they get between 30 and 70% overall niobium recovery, which I'm assuming includes the pyramid stage.

I'm not sure about that actually to say. So the December test they did for the concentrate, they got 58% recovery. So, but they've got a bit to play with because you know, the loony deposits, she's pretty high grade in sections, especially like it's, it's the second highest grade behind CBMN. That's the that's the erasure deposit, the big dog, the outline. They're like 2 1/2 percent for the whole thing. So loonies is 1% total resource

for the 200 million tonnes. But then they've got that high grade subset, which is 2.1%. That's about 1/4 of it. So that's about the same. Their total resource is the same grade as C mock sits around there, 1.01 C mock. So, but it's just a shit load of tonnes, 200 million tonnes of them. So it's probably. Like the the grade that they, the grades, the the results they put out to do that today, Is that pretty in line with what existing assets are producing at the minute?

Yeah. Well, according to the note here, that's sort of 65% is what for a Pharaoh niobium product, which is essentially the most the saleable product, the only 9590% of the world's niobium is purchased as Pharaoh Niobium. So that they're all looking good. That was sort of the the key thing to show that they can their, their deposit can create this Ferra niobium that they can sell. So it's all looking good there.

But it just highlights where the projects at which part of the journey it's on. It's they've they've shown they've can the met works in the lab and hence the share price. Getting a bit of action today though down a bit from the WA1 Mania of 22 bucks 50. When? Yeah, well. It was like freaking going off. Then she's quieting down a bit, but it's like, 'cause even if they grew the resource, like it's not really gonna friggin have much material impact. They've already got decades of

mine life. Yeah. And when you're adding to mine life, you know, that sort of that far back into the more and more, you know, decades and decades, it's sort of, yeah. And it's good, but it's not like enough to crazily move the dial I guess. Yeah, well, I think it's just gonna be the the path from here. It's like it's gonna be a lot of testing. The studies begin like it's a big bloody scale project to try and create in the middle of absolute nowhere.

But it's are they gonna just really go hammer and ton to commit to study and build themselves? Are they going to be? I would assume they'll be very actively looking for. Are they going to maybe sell down a portion of the project to? A major. Yeah, like to get a bit of bloody bit of cash in the door. Like, are they hoping someone just takes the whole thing out? Like because it definitely belongs in the world class project.

Like if you've got the second best of something in the world, it belongs in the hands of a, you know, DHP or a GM. Or a. Twiggy or a Raya or a bloody God, anyone they name a big company bloody Glencore, any any of them or CBM. And and but it's an interesting dynamic because CBMM controls so much of the market. How they're like the niobium mafia, how you know, you hear OK rumours around it's like that. They you know, they welcome more welcome another player in the other side of the world.

Like I'm not not sure how it all works. Very, very gonna be very interesting. I, I, I reckon the guys that founded it that have been there right from the start. A lot of the directors and that that are sitting on bloody, oh, sixty day. It'd be a fair bit. Now strip. At the moment, probably well over 100 million each if they might. I want a bloody big dog to take him out. So the boys get a payday.

They've been there from the start, busting their ass out in the Western run to like do the right thing for Australia, give the boys some cash, take them over. It's just like they bloody just a great Australian story, go sailing in the bloody Maldives or something. And since I'm such a proponent for the takeover, take me with his. Yeah, I love it go boys, but no, it is. Yeah.

It's a it's a good point. You raise, you know, a lot and it's sort of a bit of a the situation to you know what we're talking about earlier with with predictive, right? You know, like how, how far along in the development cycle do you think they'll have to progress to when you know, a potential corporate action might occur?

You know, what is what is a corporate sort of want to you know, or even like a partner, for example, if they were going to do it together with someone, you know what, what do they want to say? What do they want to say achieved by a certain point before they sort of, you know, commit to, you know, looking at it, you know, very seriously and that or, you know, it's you know, what, what, what is going to be the real catalyst to go OK, no, we, we, we need to make

a move on this. No, it's I bet it. God, look at things like to grey. Look at how long de grey was to grey for like that eventually got taken over a lot. Predictive predictive's been around for friggin ages. Their their permitting's been a big catalyst there. Yeah, but this one, yeah, there's obviously it's still very, very early days in testing and like no studies or like there's a there's a lot of work

to do here. So this could these guys could be around for frigging another three or four years before someone looks into a move. Yeah, no, that's right. Yeah, unless someone really what thinks paying what? Their market caps a billion today. So unless someone thinks oh play, we'll pay 1.31.4 and we'll take it. Now they might, but they mightn't accept that. They might. They might hold out. Like, you know, some people are crazier than me and love working.

Yeah. And the other thing I mean, which we sort of spoke about earlier today is, you know, this is this is not like a, a simple gold mine in Kalgoorlie, you know, study and you know, sort of development works and things like that. You know, this is of, of huge scale in a very remote location in a very niche commodity.

You know, it is not the, it's not the regular study, you know, you, you see every day and there's a lot of, you know, work involved that'll be involved in putting that together and all the other work streams around that. So it's not. I wouldn't say it's easy peasy. I'll be bringing a lot of Brazilians over here to work on it. Oh. Straight. Be like right? You have done this before. You're coming with. Us come help us stop bringing. The the Kazaks over to do a ISL

uranium project. Yeah, that's like that's where's the expertise. So yes, we'll wait and see.

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Well, I know because I'm a hedge fund Well, you'd like to be a hedge fund. It's tough to pick the bloody direction of the market each day. Oh, that's. For sure, far out. And then I saw Regis. I mean, they sort of flagged, they're arranging getting this arranged, but they sort of locked in that $300 million debt facilities, you know, for the usual, you know, lot, you know, flexibility, liquidity, additional liquidity, blah, blah, blah, sort of raising.

So yeah, no, it's, it's look, they're not like as we've mentioned the other way, you know, they're not the, the 1st to have sort of cleared the decks on their debt, but then sort of secure a new facility, you know, keep it undrawn, but just have their what purpose and when they may use it, we're yet to see well. I'll see like the only time you're using, if you're a gold miner, you're using a debt facility at the moment is if you're bloody losing money.

Like like, you know, West Gold drew down on theirs because they had a shit ass quarter last quarter and then buddy, oh Ding, Ding, Ding for West Gold now rolled a bit of cash over in the hedge fund. Yeah, for a bloody talk about them too much or like you know, or a bloody Northern Star building, a huge frigging thing, but not many, yeah, not many gold miners seem to be drawing on debt at the moment.

They have these a lot of them have these facilities, but they don't get bloody used unless they're. And you I'll be interested to know what their thoughts on M&A at these high price like because gold is ripping and gold is at all time highs by a shit load and it is top of the cycle. So to be buying doing gold M and I at the moment, especially with cash, is frigging it's it's a it's a. Big balance. It's pro.

Cyclical. Yeah. And I mean, it's it's, you know, and a lot of these gold miners are making a lot of money, which, you know, that's fantastic. But it's like, OK, where am I putting that money that's going to, you know, give me the the best return possible? Is it, you know, putting it into in my existing projects and making them bigger and better? Is it buying something opportunistically that's perhaps nearby me? Is it giving some back to to shareholders? Because that's the thing we

often say at these. I don't know if we keep feeling like we're at the top of the gold prize cycle, but then it just sort of keeps going. You know, you see these deals get done at ridiculous gold prices and then you know, when it does revert and it's just like, oh, gosh, but like, oh, I'm a bit short here. I should have invested more in my other asset here. And this. So it's it's a bit of a bit of a balancing act, that's for sure. I think yes, because I don't know.

I don't know what the next deal is going to be.

I think, like, you know, after reading the Spartan and oh geez, bloody another Ding, Ding, Ding, I'm becoming you and the guy after reading Spartans announcement, like like just talking about like the drill, the expiration money that the made is they're going to be drilling and a lot some of that will be infill, but a lot of it's going to be proven up freak And a lot of the other deposits like they're sitting at 2.8 million oz now, like they they just mightn't be in a rush to

mine because they're like we can just we've got a shit load of cash. We can do a bit of pre production and construction and keep moving forward in that. But they could, you know, they could turn that Cape drilling the shit out of this joint and go from go to 4 million oz, for

instance. And that and considering what the Gray sold for the 10 million ounces of refractory at 1.2g, If they can, you know, get a bit under half of that at high, like a high grade underground could be some that's really amenable to a bigger player. And like them, like maybe, maybe Remelius isn't the taker of it. Like they've got the stake, but they're not going to Remelius are a patient, a patient beast.

They will and they're not going to pay a stupid price, especially if they keep growing the resource and it becomes even just a ridiculous valuation. Yeah, I guess from a Spartan perspective that's, you know, it's another balancing act. You know, do I, do I wrap some economics around this or do I just keep going hammer and Tong and at at growing it, you know, because it obviously it has changed a fair bit over the last

couple of years, right. So it's like, oh jeez, by the time you wrap something around it, you know, it's sort of changed quite quickly and it's already very quickly out of date, those economics so. Especially if you're finding parallel ore bodies like and you're not just extending deeper and defining if they've find it like you adding freak on or whatever the else they start adding on. It changes your tonnage profile like it changes what you design the plant to like. It changes.

It changes everything. You might go from 120,000 ounces to a 200,000 oz producer like based on the fact that you could get a lot more at once. Like it's, that's why I don't think, I think it's not coincidence that we're not seeing and rapidly advance towards a mining decision. So you know, whether Remilius are the holder of that, I don't know anymore. I don't think so.

I think it's going to be maybe a bigger company that might take them like think of what happened the end of last year, like Remilius West Gold discussions, like through Murchison's synergies like that. That could, and considering how much West Gold's just been hammered after the, the quarterly, then the downgrade, like sitting at 2 bucks 30 like they were, you know, 3 bucks 20 before.

Like, I know they're a lot bigger now with Carolla, but just on a share pricing like, you know, maybe Remilius will be Oh, they're under a bit under a bit of pressure. Maybe a like that makes more sense. So I'll just you got to think left field JC or like it's just what always going to keep your. Options open. That's it. You never know.

And I think in this this sort of gold price environment or assets that are sort of, you know, sort of growing or developing and changing quite quickly and things like that. And even, you know, what we talked about earlier today, just because, you know, you know, Perseus had a 19.9% stake in predictive doesn't mean, oh, it's all sort of, you know, probably not everything. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they'll probably end up with a blah, blah, blah.

But then along come, you know, Lundin and and Zijin. So it's not to say the same can't happen in in other, you know, scenarios too. So no, it's a It'll just be fascinating. A lot of coincidental like events have occurred like like, you know, big they aren't doing the big bell expansion anymore, like the big bell deeps or whatever, like that seems to have just been pushed to the side. So and you know, I like Paddy's flat was turned off. I don't know how much they're

drilling a lot. You'd think, God, you'd think people would want to buy that asset and troll it out themselves if Westcold aren't going to mine it. But if they're not pushing to have big bell expanded to keep that mill full at Tucker Bianna, is that because the eventual plan might be to send it down to checkers like and turn Tucker Bianna off? I'm not I'm and just expand checkers and make that a bigger meal, like as wonder if that is all part of the bigger plan. I don't know.

I've got my eye on it. JC. We shall say. Bloody skin in the game. And then the last sort of probably more interesting 1 today. So the 40 skis sort of rapidly progressing their, their takeover or of of RedHawks, I think they reached about 66% relevant interest of that today. So I think looks like that'll get wrapped up pretty quickly. Yeah, very good, JC. Good. Session just. As good as underground operators conference. Get your free not your free tickets. Get 100 bucks off your ticket.

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