Ora Banda Mining Limited announced that it continues to make significant progress with the ramp up of activities at its Davyhurst Gold Project in Western Australia. Open pit and underground mining productivity and production levels have and continue to be impacted by Covid 19 related travel restrictions and the associated extremely tight and highly competitive labour market in Western Australia, which has led to abnormally high workforce turnover levels. The Company is currently implementing a range of strategies to assist in this area moving forward. Processing plant throughput during April and May 2021 has also continued to be negatively impacted by low slurry densities caused by the high proportion of viscous, low density oxide material from Stage 1 of the Riverina Open Pit, important actions have been implemented to increase the availability of fresh rock to the mill which is expected to increase gold production levels to DFS levels during the September quarter. The Missouri open pit mine will provide an immediate source of higher grader, harder primary ore feed from the commencement of mining activities, expected in June 2021. Key items of the mining fleet have arrived at the Missouri open pit together with required site facility materials. In the Definitive Feasibility Study, Missouri was planned to be mined in a single stage, which incorporated a three-month pre-strip. The Company has now redesigned the Missouri Open Pit into two stages, which allows ore mining to commence after a modest amount of site preparation. The Missouri Ore Reserve grade of 2.6gpt Au (1,500kt @ 2.6g/t for 130 koz) is materially higher than the Riverina Ore Reserve grade of 1.8gpt Au and therefore mining of the Missouri open pit will increase the average gold grade processed through the Davyhurst mill from July 2021. Mining at Riverina remains slightly ahead of schedule, having to date delivered more ore tonnes at a slightly lower grade for more total ounces than estimated in the DFS. Whilst process plant throughput has been impacted by the high proportion of Riverina low density oxide feed, increasingly harder transitional and primary material is scheduled to be mined at Riverina from June 2021. After lower initial mine ore grades being delivered to the processing plant due to ore stockpiling space restrictions, the Company is now utilising high, medium and low grade stockpiles on the mine ore pad to optimise the processed ore blend. Ora Banda has been working with the underground mining contractor to improve underground production rates with May production to date from the Golden Eagle underground mine of 25,620 dry metric tonnes (dmt) exceeding the total of production of 25,235dmt during the whole of the March quarter. Following initial development activities at the Golden Eagle underground mine, new information has led to a review of the geological interpretation of the southern mining area. The southern mining area of Golden Eagle had previously been interpreted as a sub vertical shear, similar to the very consistent north zone. Development activities identified a fold nose, which has so far been followed up dip for 60m. This fold nose results in a moderately flat limb to the mineralisation which changes the orientation of the lode. The new geometry suggests an increased potential for wider, flatter dipping ore zones combined with the narrower sub vertical zones previously modelled. Whilst reinterpration of the mineralisation is underway and needs to be completed, the flat lying nature of the mineralisation has the potential to increase the ounces per vertical metre in the Golden Eagle underground mine.