finally responding to high zinc/lead prices, page-12

re: best underperformer Possible reasons for delay might include it being a factor of having a syndicate involved in the financing - so each has to go through its own due diligence.

one would think that a big underground mine in a siesmically active part of the world (and involving ground conditions that have been suggested by third parties as likely to prove challenging) is dragging out the due diligence.