RE:Speculation They've said in the past they need the gold from Ruby Hill to feed the autoclave in order to run it to its capacity. I can't see you could sell Ruby Hill and lose control.
Trying to separate, describe and apportion costs to base and precious metal streams has to be a difficult and time consuming exercise. Legal disputes often result from the best documents and well intentioned JVs.
The shorts who said two years ago this was too big a planning, development and financing problem for i-80 have been correct, at least to this point.