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    Yep - pretty much what this guy says. It's also why almost no company commits to a large expenditure and tonnage of mining and haulage to an offsite plant and holding long-term stockpiles of unknown grade ore (stockpiles mined by volume-motivated mining contractors rarely surprise on the upside) for a long period of time. Classic case of short term getting an announcement out with photos of big yellow pieces of equipment moving before understanding the orebody. If you dilute the buggery out of an ore body you can't "unmine" it, and mine it again properly without dilution or further expensive remediation/selection/detective work, you need the truth machine of a mill treating ore and spitting out gold (either from the gold room or out to tailings dam) so you can catch any dilution problems early while they are still mining, and make adjustments to the resource block model, grade control models, sampling and mining techniques before you dilute the orebody out of existence.

    Doing it with a rented mill, for a limited window of opportunity and at the peak of the wet season also implies a total failure of planning, forethought, and logistics, and this is the predictable end result of a failure to plan and execute on time and on budget.
    Last edited by eastwest101: 28/03/23
 
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