RE: tonlin4 Dec 2021 21:06
. Plant maintenance issues and supply chain bottlenecks associated with the above challenges have led to lower plant availability. Consequently, WRES has adjusted down its full year production guidance for 2021 to between 650t and 750t of concentrate, c.25% lower than the inaugural guidance of 880t - 1,000t of concentrate. Current concentrate production YTD 2021 amounts to 415t which would have required a big Q4 (min 465t) to meet the lower range of previous guidance. Whilst WRES expects Q4 production to be greater than Q3, it does not expect to hit the target T2 production rate (2Mtpa ROM, c.2,500t concentrate) until Q1 2022. This looks achievable but will require a continuation of the high tungsten recovery, better plant utilisation d and a big push in ROM tonnes as the T2 rates implies quarterly ROM throughput of 500kt