That's incredibly insightful thank you. Particularly in regards to the economics and logistics of different grades of ore. I know we have massive amounts of ore at .2% cueq which is the cutoff for open pit.
I'm guessing (correct me if I'm wrong) that material is only barely economic at the moment. This is probably part of the reason why our current life of mine is less then our overall resource as not all off the resource we have on the books is economical due to either grade, depth or both.
So your saying blending some higher grade ore to maybe lift our bulk .2% cueq material to say maybe even just .3% cueq for a consistent mill grade feed would have massive benefits for both processing and economics and make otherwise unviable low grade ore profitable.
Thanks for your input, very interesting to think on.
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