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Annual Report 2007

GLOSSARY

ALS   Advanced Life Support
AIM   Alternative Investment Market
Ta2O5   Tantalum pentoxide
kg   kilogramme
klb   thousand pounds
km   kilometre
lb   pound
m   metre
Mt   million tonnes
p.a.   per annum
ppm   parts per million
$   US Dollar, legal currency of the United States of America
£   Pound Sterling, legal currency of the United Kingdom
Indicated resource   that part of a Mineral Resource for which tonnage, densities, shape, physical characteristics, grade and mineral content can be estimated with a reasonable level of confidence. It is based on exploration, sampling and testing information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, working and drill holes. The locations are too widely or inappropriately spaced to confirm geological and/or grade continuity but are spaced closely enough for continuity to be assumed
Inferred resource   that part of a Mineral Resources for which tonnage, grade and mineral content can be estimated with a low level of confidence. It is inferred from geological evidence and assumed but not verified geological and/or grade continuity. It is based on information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, working and drill holes which may be limited or of uncertain quality and reliability
Mineral resource   a concentration [or occurrence] of material of economic interest in or on the Earth’s crust in such form, quality and quantity that there are reasonable and realistic prospects for eventual economic extraction. The location, quantity, grade, continuity and other geological characteristics of a Mineral Resources are known, estimated from specific geological evidence and knowledge, or interpreted from a well constrained and portrayed geological model. Mineral Resources are sub-divided in order of increasing confidence, in respect of geoscientific evidence, into Inferred, Indicated and Measured categories