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Note 16 - Inventories (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Statement Line Items [Line Items] |
Disclosure of components of inventories [text block] |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Consumable stores |  |  | 8,776 |  |  |  | 6,884 |
Gold in process |  |  | 399 |  |  |  | 338 |
|  |  | 9,175 |  |  |  | 7,222 |

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