Suggest you check out the Roxmark Hub, word there has it that the deal gives ONT access to a fully permitted, expandable mill 20 minutes truck haul from their best reserves.
Production equals cash flow, with all the red tape of doing anything involved in mining,
I see this as saving valuable time which equals money, anyone taking their time in the hopes of hitting production at 2000 dollars an ounce is forgetting to make hay while the sun shines [1000 an ounce equals profit]