Interesting verbiage to parse...Another tidbit of information:
https://www.reviewboard.ca/upload/project_document/EA-1617-01_Project_Description_Report_2016_.PDF
Section 9.2.2 2 Potential Future Projects FORTUNE MINERALS LTD. NICO MINE
Page 207
"Fortune Minerals indicated that development of the mine could not begin until a public all-season road was built that would connect the community of What to Highway 3 as constructing an additional 100 km of road themselves did not make the project financially feasible. If the proposed TASR is constructed, it will support Fortune Minerals’ ongoing efforts in procuring financing for the NICO project and construction of the private haul road and mine would most likely commence simultaneously along with the proposed TASR by initially utilizing the T ch Winter Road System."
Wording is hard to parse. It seems to me that FT starts the process of building the secondary road AND the mine simulataneously (using the Ticho Winter Road System). I would take that to mean that once TASR starts processing, FT starts w/ the secondary road, then the mine. So in 9.5 months, they can start to look for financing.
Oh, so confusing....