more on NR ok. so we didn't sell some larger stones and the revenue is lower by some $2m. not that big of a deal - especially not justifying 15% sell-off imo. in the first place i never understood why we go with the online auction (a novelty) for the first sale - this must always lead to lower prices as the buyers are double cautious. bad judgement by the mgmt! on top of that the first sale is less than a week before the all important Greece elections and into softer/cautious diamond demand.
other than that there are some things I need to help with from more knowledgeable posters here:
1. so the grade is 39-40cpht. why is the remainder of the year expected to be half that at 20cpht? (still above the original expectations i should say...)
2. more importantly why did we processed only 85,000 tonnes? the mine is online for at least 6 weeks now (ok not yet optimized to the top output of 2.5Mtpa) but I would expect something more like 300,000 tonnes processed in that timespan...