Get Outta the Way!Honestly I think that FT just needs to get out of the way and stop spending so much time and resources on figuring out how to mine and process Nico.
It is unlikely that a interested miner would want to be boxed into a particular mining and processing plan / strategy. A competent miner wants to obtain the resource and optimize a mining and processing plan to maximize NPV, based on their knowledge and expertise.
And practically it seems unlikely that FT will finance and construct NICO, so they should forget about all the fun desktop activities about planning and strategizing mining plans, and get on with the business of marketing the Nico asset.
The board should seriously put the asset up for sale and hold a sales/bidding process. It is a very risky proposition that August could roll around and FT defaults on their loans. The lenders would probably love to take the asset for cheap and auction it off for easy profits.
Seriously, can you believe the amount of money they spent bulk sampling and constructing related infrastructure on site. That is something the player with big pockets does, not the junior that is trying to make mad money by selling a valuable asset.