Core recoveries through the primary zones of mineralization in the Broken Hill deposit are greater than 95%. Coeur conducted random checks of the core to determine recovery percentage for a
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subset of the available core. An average recovery of 98% was found in the main mineralized zones. Figure 11.1 is an example of the typical high core recovery observed.