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RNC Minerals unearths possibly biggest ever gold-rich stones in Australia

Last updated: 12:32 12 Oct 2018 BST, First published: 11:37 12 Oct 2018 BST

Mark Selby, President and CEO of RNC Minerals (TSE:RNX) spoke to Proactive London's Andrew Scott after announcing the first specimen slab from the top of the Father's Day Vein discovery area has been recovered at their Beta Hunt Mine in Western Australia.

Selby says the slab, weighing around 90kg, is thought to contain approximately 1,000 ounces of gold.

RNC reckons the gold-rich stones are among the biggest of their kind ever unearthed in Australia.

'We think we've made one of the great gold discoveries of this decade .. if not this century so far'', Selby says.

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