I think that Deliverator is right. There could be a financing in the wind. The bonus might be knowing that there is a financing coming with warrants and then shorting the stock to get some extra margin out of it before you buy the financing.

As for the guidance, they probably didn't make it because they didn't have enough ore going to the mill. If you take away the ore from the RLM, you need to replace it with something and they may not have been able to get enough of that something.

Its just going to take longer, and I might be grey before I see it.