Fiesta April 6? due to the high concentration of arsenic in the ore from Halkidiki, Hellas Gold was proposing a non-standard application of flash smelting that raised questions as to its applicability. Six years on, the Ministry of Environment concluded that, in the case of these particular high-arsenic ores, flash smelting would generate extremely large volumes of toxic off-gasses and cause multiple technical issues in downstream processing. Eldorado is thus currently at an impasse, technically and legally: the technology on which the entire investment plan is dependent is simply not applicable for technical and environmental reasons, yet under the terms of its environmental approval Eldorado cannot opt for a different technology.