Southern Gold Ltd. and Metals X Ltd.'s gold spinoff, Westgold Resources Ltd., have each received A$2 million as part of the first profit share distribution from the Cannon gold mine in Western Australia.

Westgold is managing operations at the Cannon gold mine and is processing Cannon ore at the South Kalgoorlie operations' Jubilee plant.

Southern Gold on Dec. 28 said it applied A$1.5 million of the A$2 million distribution to the repayment of a working capital facility provided by Westgold.

The seventh processing campaign of Cannon ore is anticipated to commence Jan. 7, 2017, and continue to about Feb. 23, 2017, the company said.