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Table 22.3Summary of Post-tax NPV, IRR, <strong>and</strong> Payback by Metal PriceEconomic ReturnsUnitBaseCaseLowerPriceSpotPrices *NCF US$ million 3,499 964 3,913NPV at 5.0% Discount Rate US$ million 1,763 384 1,984Project IRR % 35.7 13.7 39.2Payback Years 2.2 4.8 2.0Exchange Rate US$:Cdn$ 1.00 1.00 0.98Gold Price US$/oz 1,350 800 1,416Silver Price US$/oz 20.00 15.00 22.70Note: *Spot prices as at June 6, 201322.2.3 ROYALTIESThere are royalties applicable to the Project. “Royalty” means the amount payable by theOwner, calculated as 1.2% of the at-mine-revenue, with the following exemptions:• gold: the first 503,386 oz produced from the Property• silver: the first 17,907,080 oz produced from the Property.22.3 SMELTER TERMSIn the absence of letters of interest or letters of intent from potential smelter or buyers ofdoré, in-house database numbers were used to benchmark the terms supplied by theowner.Contracts will generally include payment terms as follows:• doré: gold <strong>and</strong> silver – pay 99.8% of gold <strong>and</strong> silver content. A refining <strong>and</strong>transport charge of $2.00/troy oz will be deducted from the metal price.• concentrate: gold <strong>and</strong> silver – pay 95% of gold <strong>and</strong> silver content. A treatment charge is$200.00/dmt of concentrate is applied. A penalty charge of $10 per each0.1% of arsenic is also applied.22.4 MARKETS AND CONTRACTS22.4.1 MARKETSThe Project will produce gold <strong>and</strong> silver doré <strong>and</strong> concentrates. Doré will be trucked tothe smelter. Concentrates will be loaded in bags <strong>and</strong> transported from the mill site to thetransfer station for storage <strong>and</strong> transfer to flat-deck trucks. The flat-deck trucks willPretium Resources Inc. 22-4 1291990200-REP-R0012-02<strong>Feasibility</strong> <strong>Study</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Report</strong> on the BrucejackProject, Stewart, BC

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