# P2 Gold &amp; Car Body: 7 Things You Need to Know About the Early Cash Flow Strategy

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy--e450911c-4666-436a-87ac-d36a9f624f9c

Original source: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy

Publisher: cruxinvestor

Original announcement: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: P2 Gold Inc.

- Ticker: PGLD

- Exchange: Unavailable

- Region: Nevada

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Copper, Silver

- Document categories: Metallurgy, Drill results, Resource update

- Extracted: 2026-09-04 23:48:21 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

P2 Gold is evaluating a strategy to accelerate cash flow at the Gabbs Project by processing the Car Body zone during the construction of the main facility. Recent column testing showed high gold recoveries of 95.6% over 73 days, and the zone's low copper content may allow for a simplified heap-leach processing route.

Reasoning: The document details metallurgical success and a strategic early-cash-flow concept for the Car Body zone, supported by new drilling and existing resource data.

- Positive factor: High gold recovery \(95.6%\) from column testing

- Positive factor: Low copper content in Car Body simplifies processing

- Positive factor: Potential for early cash flow during construction

- Positive factor: New drilling results confirm mineralization

- Negative factor: Car Body resource is smaller than principal zones

- Negative factor: True widths for recent drilling not yet determined

- Negative factor: Economic impact of Car Body not yet quantified

Facts used in scoring: 9

## Classification and evidence

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Recovery at or above the exceptional band for the commodity and processing route.

Why it applies: 95.6% gold recovery is exceptional for a heap-leach/column test route.

Evidence · text

> returned an average gold recovery of 95.6% after 73 days

**Inferred Resource**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Speculative category — limited drilling, geological continuity assumed but not confirmed. Cannot support economic studies alone.

Why it applies: The Car Body resource is stated as being in the Inferred category.

Evidence · text

> contains 3.2 million tonnes of inferred Car Body oxide mineralization

**Apparent Width Only**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Interval given as downhole width with no true width or drill orientation — apparent width may overstate true thickness.

Why it applies: Recent drilling results report downhole widths but explicitly state true thicknesses are yet to be determined.

Evidence · text

> True thicknesses remain to be determined.

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 9. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Metallurgical Results (9)

### column leach

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gold

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: PGLD

#### Test Work

- Test Type: column leach
- Sample: Car Body oxide mineralization, 73-day column test
- Leach Time: 1752 hours

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 95.6 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: 95.6% recovery after 73 days is very strong for a heap-leach/column test.

- Positive factor: Exceptional recovery for heap leach route

Evidence · text

> column testing returned an average gold recovery of 95.6% after 73 days

### column leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy--e450911c-4666-436a-87ac-d36a9f624f9c#fact-metallurgical-facts-1)

gold

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: PGLD

#### Test Work

- Test Type: column leach
- Sample: Car Body oxide mineralization, 7-day column test
- Leach Time: 168 hours

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 78.3 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Interim 7-day recovery is lower but shows positive kinetics.

- Positive factor: Positive early kinetics

Evidence · text

> Average gold recovery reached 78.3% after 7 days

### column leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy--e450911c-4666-436a-87ac-d36a9f624f9c#fact-metallurgical-facts-2)

gold

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: PGLD

#### Test Work

- Test Type: column leach
- Sample: Car Body oxide mineralization, 39-day column test
- Leach Time: 936 hours

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 92.7 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: 92.7% recovery at 39 days is strong.

- Positive factor: Strong recovery

Evidence · text

> 92.7% after 39 days

### Fact 4

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy--e450911c-4666-436a-87ac-d36a9f624f9c#fact-metallurgical-facts-3)

gold

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: PGLD

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: A wide intercept of 39.62m at 0.76 g/t Au.

- Positive factor: Significant width

- Negative factor: True width not determined

Evidence · text

> intersected 39.62 meters grading 0.76 grams per tonne gold from 9.14 meters downhole

### Fact 5

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy--e450911c-4666-436a-87ac-d36a9f624f9c#fact-metallurgical-facts-4)

gold

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: PGLD

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: High-grade portion of the 39.62m intercept.

- Positive factor: Higher grade sub-interval

Evidence · text

> including 13.72 meters grading 1.62 grams per tonne gold

### Fact 6

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy--e450911c-4666-436a-87ac-d36a9f624f9c#fact-metallurgical-facts-5)

gold

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: PGLD

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: A 28.19m intercept at 0.78 g/t Au.

- Positive factor: Significant width

- Negative factor: True width not determined

Evidence · text

> returned 28.19 meters grading 0.78 grams per tonne gold from 5.33 meters downhole

### Fact 7

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy--e450911c-4666-436a-87ac-d36a9f624f9c#fact-metallurgical-facts-6)

gold

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: PGLD

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: High-grade portion of the 28.19m intercept.

- Positive factor: Strong grade sub-interval

Evidence · text

> including 4.57 meters grading 3.08 grams per tonne gold

### Fact 8

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy--e450911c-4666-436a-87ac-d36a9f624f9c#fact-metallurgical-facts-7)

gold

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: PGLD

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Car Body oxide mineralization is currently classified as Inferred.

- Negative factor: Inferred category

Evidence · text

> contains 3.2 million tonnes of inferred Car Body oxide mineralization grading 0.93 grams per tonne gold for 0.096 million ounces

### Fact 9

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/p2-gold-car-body-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-early-cash-flow-strategy--e450911c-4666-436a-87ac-d36a9f624f9c#fact-metallurgical-facts-8)

gold

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: PGLD

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Car Body sulfide mineralization is currently classified as Inferred.

- Negative factor: Inferred category

Evidence · text

> together with 1.1 million tonnes of inferred sulfide mineralization grading 0.75 grams per tonne gold for 0.027 million ounces

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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