Yep, agree it should have been brought to the market's attention earlier. The argument could be made that they haven't provided much in the way of guidance previously around production so they didn't need to update the market.
Sounds like 16/17 is probably going to be around the same as 15/16 with perhaps some further incremental improvement in grade. Maybe 130-140 koz.
MML Price at posting:
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