Hi Maigret1 , it was just a comparison between the two; not meant as a dig at BGS or anything. Both companies look to have great resources and both are in crap locations logistically speaking with crap infrastructure servicing both. Neither project would be viable if they needed to run it all by road unless it was full trot processed product.
Drawing out 2 million tonne per year by road for either project is impossible ; they'd need to be loading out approx 5 trucks per hour 24 hour a day 365 days per year ; if a round trip is taking 4-5 days well that's a hell of alot of trucks....do that over the life of the mine
The Benguela railway would obviously reduce those trucking numbers for AVZ and make it more viable ; but in any case considering the immense size of Manono and the tonnage required to be extracted if they wanted to mine the lot whilst lithium was still the resource of choice for batteries .... well take 1 billion tonne and even spread it over 100 years; that's 10 million tonnes that would need to be processed every year.
IMO no matter where Manono was actually located; even up against a port ; a Chem plant on site makes more sense all day long.