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Accounting Policies - Expected Useful Lives of Depreciation of Non-mining Assets (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2017
Vehicles [member]
Disclosure of detailed information about property, plant and equipment [line items]
Expected useful lives percentage	20.00%
Computer [Member]
Disclosure of detailed information about property, plant and equipment [line items]
Expected useful lives percentage	33.30%
Furniture and Equipment [Member]
Disclosure of detailed information about property, plant and equipment [line items]
Expected useful lives percentage	10.00%

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Rate Of Depreciation Of Non Mining Assets

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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