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Note 11 - Impairment Loss on Trade Receivables | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
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Disclosure of other operating expense [text block] | 11 Impairment loss on trade receivables
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Impairment - 2017 royalty rebate |  |  | — |  |  |  | 181 |  |  |  | — |
During 2016 Blanket Mine obtained a rebate on royalty payments made in 2015 of $181 for incremental gold production in 2016 compared to production in 2015. A receivable was recognised for the royalty amount overpaid to the revenue authorities in 2016 based on the pre-award rate. An impairment provision of $181 ( 2017: $181 ) was raised against the receivable outstanding in 2017. The Zimbabwean government has been unable to put in place the modalities of implementing the royalty on incremental gold sales across the gold industry as a whole.

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