The understatement of the century
Only on this forum could folks start speculating on increasing capacity on a plant that’s already a year late and another several months late, since the last update(!), in commissioning.
Its not difficult to calcuate the “freshly mined rock” as a percentage of the supposed 60kt stockpile. This topic can be found in the archives. There was nowhere near 270 days of mining. Lots of starts and stops along with a considerable period of care and maintenance (unknownst to many until the company was forced to update). I have no idea if or how there is actualy 60kt of stockpile ore but speculating on grade or assuming a significant portion is coming from the vein and/or “fresh mining” defies logic. CHG’s post from several years ago does an excellent job explaining why:
As a side note: based on all of the aerial views we all have seen and their proximity at the top of a mountain, where are they hiding these tailings. If you ask AI to provide a visual of 60,000 tonnes of stockpiled ore you get something along these lines. Maybe we are confusing a giant mountain top for a pile of stockpiled gold? And imagine sorting out that much ore into different grades.
