Westgold Resources Limited provided this operational update on the progress of company's Big Bell operation. The Company's Big Bell underground operation has continued its systematic ramp-up in output in the June quarter of financial year 2021 [FY21]. As mine output in the first quarter of FY2022 is set to increase again, Westgold is confident that this trend will continue with Big Bell reaching its targeted output of +80,000 tonnes per month by calendar year end. Westgold acknowledges that its ramp up has been slower than expected and was delayed by the incident at the mine which impacted output into Third Quarter of FY21. The critical driver to the ramp up is a strict sequencing protocol over multiple levels. This requires an intensive ground support regime to manage the active cave front and stress releases which, coupled with some legacy issues with the old cave, resulted in slower yet steady progress to date. Westgold is now through this difficult phase, has commissioned its new underground production fleet and begun optimising in-mine production processes to sustain the long-term higher production rate of the mine.