RE: Under pressure...If my memory serves me correct OSK drilled off a deposit with entirely different geometry than Cote Lake. The initial inferred resource at Malartic, relelased back in 2006, was based on a deposit of 1470 metres in length (east-west), 460 to 850 metres in width, to a maximum vertical depth of 620 metres. Approximately 88% of the envelope was above the 350 metre level.
The question is not whether or not there will be a mine, the question is how many minable ounces there are. On some cross sections the width of Cote Lake mineralization looks to be in the neighbourhood of 100m (true width). The narrow widths constrains the economics of an open pit deposit with respect to depth. Right now TRR is talking about the max. depth of an open pit being 350m. There is uncertainty with TRR IMHO because of this geometry issue. The global geological inferred resource at Cote Lake could well be over 5 milion ounces but only 3.5 million may be all that makes it into the inferred category based on a NI 43-101 study.