March 6 news release more Work on the Environmental and Social Assessment (ESIA) study is scheduled to resume in March and be completed by the end of 2023, while the Mine Closure Plan is planned for submission in the fall of 2023. Focus continues to communicate, meet, and listen to local communities and will be stepping up these efforts now that the feasibility study is completed, and the scale and impacts of the Project are better understood.
My guess and it is a guess, once mine closure plan is submitted it will take a minimum of 6 months to get approval. It will depend on how many questions are returned by the government departments that have a say in the approval process. Naturally the speed these questions are answered depends on length of time to get final approval.