Access to production ore was always expected to be June 2007,...

Access to production ore was always expected to be June 2007, true Charles.
However, the plant was expected to be ready considerably before the decline hit the ore zone. The plan was to commission the plant running Tetonic Bore stockpile dirt till production ore was available.
This from october briefing : "We’ve also begun to assess the value of the Teutonic Bore stockpiles and we’ve
converted the first of those stockpiles, about 25,000 tonnes, into reserves. That
also gives us the flexibility to treat some ore earlier than the original plan if we can
get the concentrator ready ahead of time."

Last year it was hoped this would take place in late February, and all my posts from last year refer to TB ore going through the plant then. And in Feb this year we were hoping for Easter.............and alas it will now be hopefully in June........

Cheers
GZ