so it's 55%

We now find the sample was 132% richer than Nex thought, meaning the final recovery was only 55%, not 85% or more. What a monumental ?.

Optimists might hope Orient is twice as rich based on a 181kg sample. It might be a little richer but it's likely the economics of their heap leaching now become far less exciting, with minimal cash surplus from phase 1 imo. The 3 phase development to progressively generate cash no longer looks as capable of doing so. A CIP plant becomes the priority imo.

And the moral of the story. Beware when a test that should take 15 days, takes 2 months to report on.