seems to me..., page-15

On that graph, and in relation to your initial question you'd have to reference the Cu price against a pool of like scale producers to draw any effective conclusions, wouldnt you? As for WM comments on sales, yes I dare say any company exec would prefer to sell any product into all time highs. Mine life envisage at 10y and thus analysis, but mining authority approvals go well beyond my life, what would they know? Heck Ernest Henry was supposed to be a skipark lake by now.

BTW it's all been covered on HC threads before.