The managing director of Helix Resources Ltd, Mr Rob Mosig, said yesterday that patient investors were likely to get significant returns from the company in a year's time, once the extent of its gold discovery in South Australia was known.

Speaking at a Securities Institute of Australia lunch in Melbourne, Mr Mosig said the company's gold discovery in the Gawler Craton in South Australia was likely to be world class and could finally break the company's bad run of uneconomic discoveries.