contractors are off max for a  two week period IF at all - there...

contractors are off max for a  two week period IF at all - there is always someone ready to keep plodding over Xmas (there is an incentive too in the form of double pay or something)... so IF there is a halt in drilling, I guess it would be from 21 Dec to 3rd Jan or something....

these guys are not the usual desk job types - being away from family over Xmas is not a good thing for anyone but most have done that in such FIFO world of mining... I am not too worried about Xmas break - I want drilling to start in the first week of December... not impossible as there is nothing legal in the way and there has been more than 6 months for them to get it all lined up by now...

looking at the long drilling timelines, I wouldn't be surprised if the drilling contractors were told to get some spanking new gear that can bore deep below 1 km for over 2 years or so... maybe these kind of purchases take a month or two extra and hence the December start instead of October...

WE ARE ALMOST THERE GUYS... it will start "soon"... to sell out now at 5 minutes to midnight would be the worst thing to do IMO... yes, it has been a long wait... only a few more weeks to go...