" Some here are hanging their hat on grade factoring, the...

" Some here are hanging their hat on grade factoring, the processed grades were up to 10 times the drilled grades."

I dont think there is any hat hanging going on. The grade uplift is the reason for the trial mining.

"Taking into account that the ore was hand sorted wouldn't you expect that to be the case?"

Can you point to where it says there was hand sorting of reef based ore?

"As for A1, well I follow it and its certainly no world beater and struggles to gain any market recognition. Their costs can't give much of a pointer likely Morning Star costs, imo."

That is probably because they are running at break even. Why can not their costs give much of a pointer, in your opinion are they likely higher or lower that RoD?