On 4 December the company announced a JORC Compliant 531 Mt at 11.1% P0 at a 7% P0 cut-off, of which 89% is in the Measured and Indicated category. The MRE was provided by CSA Global (UK) Ltd. The latest MRE is based on a 5% P0 Cut-off grade. In April 2015 SRK Consulting released a 2014 JORC Compliant Minable Reserve Statement. A total of 929 diamond and reverse-circulation holes have been drilled by Cominco in the Hinda deposit, for 66,231 m. Phosphate mineralisation is hosted by Upper Cretaceous to Quaternary sediments up to 65 m thick and from surface at the mine start location. Cominco's Hinda Project lies 37 km northeast of Pointe-Noire in the Kouilou Department. Existing road and rail infrastructure connect the project to the major seaport at Point Noire. The Project involves the development of an open cut mine and in-pit crushing of an average 18 Mt/y of Ore, and a beneficiation plant approximately 12 km from the Hinda village, 37 km northeast of Pointe-Noire, a major deep-sea container port and the industrial capital of ROC. The beneficiation plant will treat an average of 7.2 Mt/y of screened Ore grading 21.7% P0 to produce 4.1 Mt/y of Phosrock grading 32% P0. A slurry pipeline will transport the product 42.1 km to the port site (Pointe Indienne) slightly north Pointe-Noire. Product dewatering, drying, storage and shiploading facilities will be built at the port site. Electrical power for the Project is supplied by interconnection to the ROC national grid with a 16 km long 220kV overhead transmission line linking the existing M’Boundi substation with the Hinda beneficiation plant and a 16 km long 30 kV overhead transmission line linking the Mongo Kamba substation to the Pointe Indienne port site. Natural gas is used in the flash dryer to dry the Phosrock product concentrate, at Pointe Indienne. A new 150 mm diameter, 17 km long buried off-take pipeline delivers natural gas from Mengo to the Pointe Indienne port facilities. Prior to being dried in the flash dryer, the phosphate slurry is first dried using a filter press.