Golden Queen Mining Co. Ltd. (the Company) is a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX-GQM).The Company is focused on developing an open pit, gold-silver heap leach operation on its Soledad Mountain property (the Project), which is located 8 km from the town of Mojave in Kern County in southern California.The ore that will be mined as per the current mine design is 57.3million t with grades of 0.83 g/t gold (0.024 oz/ton) and 13.5 g/t silver (0.39 oz/ton). This mineable reserve is estimated to contain 1,529,000 oz gold and 24,870,000 oz silver. The mineral inventory is 122 million t.