Why not put the deep mine on care and maintainence

Audigger, you might actually see that happen. However not until they have enough production above the 26 level to feed an 1800 tpd mill. The Hinge is operating, 007 will be, as soon as the " independent" access is complete. Plans are underway for a spiral ramp to L13 that will hook back to the RLM at the 6 level and there are 3 drifts planned at 6, 16 and 26 that reach out to the east to pick up the downward plunging surface zones. All of the drifts will be used to expand the known resource as well as mine these zones from below, bringing ore to the A-shaft saving huge amounts of time and diesel. I read somewhere that the A shaft can move around 2000 tpd, so eventually another deeper shaft will be needed from surface in order to bring all of the deep gold below the 26 level to the surface. Who knows how many years this will take so if you are in for the long haul this story will have many twists and turns along the way.