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Hi again Rod/Slick,

Any further movement of material at Moolap? If so it would be a good sign that further NMP/AL80 has been shifted.

Further to previous conversations on trying to price Australian ops, commodities (including base metals) seem to be on the slide along with gold as USD strengthens, and with further gloomy economic news out of Europe it looks like Aluminium will continue to slide. This will be somewhat mitigated by the falling Aussie.

However, aluminium stands closer to $1750 per metric tonne and is in a downtrend, the 2008 GFC low was closer to $1200 a tonne, probably best to use a lower Al price in the calculations to be on the conservative side. Looks like we really need to value add with the salt and NMP.

Would be nice to get guidance from the company once the filter ramps up... Fingers crossed the rest of the plant can keep pace with the new filter. You'd hope that the company has tried running all the other parts of the process at the higher 1000t/week capacity to prepare them for after the filter is installed.

If the bottleneck truly is the old press, is anyone here with more of an engineering background prepared to hazard a guess as to whether the plant set up would allow running pre-filter processes at the higher throughput then stockpiling material post filter and running the rest at the higher rate too? Or have I completely misunderstood how the current plant works and where it falls down?