It was always going to be a stretch. The grades aren't anything...

It was always going to be a stretch. The grades aren't anything to write home about, the original promoters talked of $100/mtu operating costs which soon became $160/mtu when management changed.

Fully funded into production - it seems not. It also seems it may have been a bit premature to call the completion on commissioning.

Aaahh... the poetics of promoters and minor metals. Every stanza is full of superlatives.