Mining companies allow a few months to onboard any incoming...

Mining companies allow a few months to onboard any incoming roles.. this alliance with the current plan to wrap up the current contracts with processing staff.
(this is not some random assumption as I work in the field of infrastructure maintenance and management for BHP)
normally I would say this is a bad move as the new staff are coming in without any experience in the fine tuning of the plant to date.. however if the current team have only been able to achieve 4.7 and 4.8% I think it's time they do get fresh eyes involved.. they need to quickly improve this up to a minimum of 5.2-5.5

with the wet season nearing its end they also need to quickly implement a firm plan on restocking the ROM. Actually and luckily this is the easiest part of mining we are already at paydirt just a simple matter of digging it out and transporting it to the pad.

it's quite a simple equation- no ore= no processing- no processing= no money