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Question: Hayden Bairstow - Argonaut - Analyst
: Plenty of detail on the study. Just a couple of things from me. First, just on mining. The mining costs seem quite elevated over the life of the
project. Just some thoughts about why you're ramping it from five up towards seven over time and the strip ratio is reasonably flat.
And then just secondly, just on that, I mean, there's obviously a 1:1 or just over your plans for grade control drilling because I presume
managing ore dilution is going to be pretty critical to this thing once it gets going.
Question: Hayden Bairstow - Argonaut - Analyst
: And just on the nickel stream, I mean the recoveries are obviously low versus a lot of the other metals. I mean what do you see as opportunities?
I mean I know you look at the MHP is one way of monetizing the rest of the nickel, but where do you see sort of potential wins there as you
go through the full phase?
Question: David Coates - Bell Potter Securities Ltd - Analyst
: I got some questions, plenty there to go through. Sort of high-level question to start with just there's always been a lot of value levers to
pull on this project. Can you just sort of run us through, I guess, sort of what key factors have been in coming to the throughput rates that
you've like in the PFS and the staging sequence?
Question: David Coates - Bell Potter Securities Ltd - Analyst
: Second one, just sort of looking longer out to funding. It's a long-life operation, 23-year initial mine life and obviously carries the attraction
of the critical mineral site. There's plenty of debt funding on offer. How do you kind of see the -- obviously some way up, but the debt or
the funding mix and the sources panning out?
Question: David Coates - Bell Potter Securities Ltd - Analyst
: One final one. You mentioned one of the step changes for the projects being the process route in the metallurgy. You commented that you
spent $15 million on net testing. Can you just give us maybe a bit of extra color or context around just the amount of work that's been done
and the level of confidence that you guys have in all that work is built for you guys in choosing and designing the process that you've arrived
at?
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Question: Richard Knights - Barrenjoey Markets Pty Ltd - Analyst
: Just a quick one on the environmental review document. I mean it feels like that's the critical path item now. Perhaps if you could just give
us a bit more of a flavor of what's left to be done there before you submit it in six months' time. And then you've given, I think, an 18-month
time frame from submission to approval. Obviously, it's out of your hands, but where, if at all, you see risks to that time frame?
Question: Simone Grogan - The West Australian - Analyst
: Just on that note of approval, are you likely to see any benefit from the -- or hindrance otherwise, just from the changes to the environment
act the federal changes? Is that going to be of any use for you guys?
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