Conf Call Transcript - December Joseph Ovsenek
For the fourth quarter we were on track to equal or exceed third quarter production, until late in the fourth quarter when we experienced operational setbacks which resulted in lower than planned gold production for Q4. In December, two high-grade stopes slated to come online during the month did not make it to the mill. Both of our long-hole drills went down, and we couldn't get one of the stopes drilled off in time to impact our Q4 production. The second high-grade stope was drilled off and ready to go, but the slot hung up after blasting, and it was well into Q1 '18 before it could be rehabilitated.
During December Pretium issued two separated PR:
Regional Exploration Update on December 5, 2017
Application to increase production to 3800 tonnes per day on December 21, 2017
Not a single word about the "setbacks" they were experiencing!!