The Dawn of EV, page-1487

Feel they're sandbagging these great daily volumes, perhaps being a little cautious, before announcing to the market in an official type announcement.

At the time of print, average daily pro-duction was nearing the plant’s nameplate target of 1,000 tpd for Stage 1 operations at Butcherbird, about 130km south of New-man.

Since coming back online in the final days of 2021, the plant has never performed better. The company used the production downtime to implement a number of pre-planned engineering modifications which delivered instant improvements, including record daily output of 1,209t on Januar

“We undertook a number of design ad-justments to the processing plant which allowed us to get better outcomes on a throughput and daily production perspec-tive, so that’s been very positive overall,” Brown told Paydirt.“I don’t think we could be more pleased with the way this year has started and we’ll be looking for more of the same for the rest of the year, including the delivery of the sub-sequent stages of the project.”