Ann: Noosa Conference Presentation, page-66

Just missed that as well, you are correct infill drilling has been going on for a while. But the environmental permits are the only real hurdle that would hold us up for a DSO.

Equipment can be organised and brought in next season if permitting was a non-issue, it's a different situation compared to as if we were constructing HPAL autoclaves for example. Massive lead time on that, not so on ore sorters.

Permitting is what slows down the ability to mine. But all mines have to be permitted so while everyone tries to make this out as a bad point for AW1 it's actually a bullish point. What other junior can expedite it's permitting (other than african projects lol) as it does not have to interact with first nations or complete most of the environmental work since it does not apply to what we are proposing (no tailings dams for example).

Of course some work still needs to be done but since what is being proposed is very low impact (pretty much a quarry) the process is less stringent and time consuming.