asked the Minister for Energy if, in respect of the State mining lease granted to Tara Mines Limited, he will review the treatment of ore reserves in the annual reports of Tara Exploration and Development Company Limited, for the years 1980 and 1981; if he will note the practice followed whereby quoted figures for proven and probable reserves at given dates contain reserves which had already been extracted on those dates; if he will confirm by reference to Tara, if necessary, that the ore reserve figures ascribed to Tara at 31 December 1985 in his replies dated 5 and 6 June, 1986 contained reserves which had already been extracted and were not proven and probable reserves which remained to be extracted within the Tara leasehold on 31 December 1985; and if he will disclose the tonnage and grade of both the proven reserve and the probable reserve which did in fact remain to be extracted within the Tara leasehold on 31 December 1985.
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