Of course capper/s in the know and replacing cheaper stock down the track won't hurt them ...
Now, my point wasn't direct to project been expensive to get it on production , there is no way auk or any of small asx specs to bring in production such projects by themselves , we all know that .
But if you compare it's peers you'll find out auk is super cheap for a cobalt/nickel and that's even without mentioning it's 1.15moz of gold project ..imagine if cobalt keeps going up ?
Here is a peers comparison and it mentions that project is sapolite/limonite ...