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Norton:

• owns and operates the 150 koz pa Padddington Gold Mine at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia

• is completing a feasibility on underground development at Paddington
  
• is planning to develop the 40-50 koz pa Mount Morgan Gold Tailings Project in Queensland
  
• is actively exploring the Middlemount Coal Project and its Central Queensland Projects

• has proposed an off-market takeover of Bellamel Mining limited

and has a strategy of expanding its resource base via value-accretive acquisitions.