For perspective. If anyone cares to gain any. This is a picture of the Peruvain plant (they are building at 350tpd CIL vs AUMCs 100tpd plant). This picuture is taken in June. They received permits, before beginning construction, and have plans to commission the plant in February.
Compare the above picture to the one just provided by AUMC
Does Feb/March seem like a reasonable start date?
Also worth noting: b/c the Peruvian company is fully permitted, they moved all of the key equipment to site several months ago as can be seen the following picture. It take a long arss time to haul all of this stuff up a mountain.
Its pretty evident that AUMC has not moved the equipment up. I assume b/c they are waiting on permits.
I’m not throwing out 2026 predictions to sow doubt. Its just the realities of mining which are often lost on this board.