Pounds in the ground have not changed....It'll just either take a bit longer to extract or a bit more cost for the same output - so who really cares. Well, penny flippers and shorters that's who.
If it takes double the time per well to extract the copper while using a similar amount of acid then nothing has really changed except for a small bump in operating costs. They might just add twice the initial well heads than they expected to and simply run them twice as long.
I fully expect them to get to their stated output by year end - approx 2 million pounds in December by spending more money upfront on wells/labour/power etc.
$4 copper gives them $8 million per month in revenue at that point in time. That's $100 million in 2022 at the bare minimum flowing in.
I'm in for a piece of that action.