IGO,
1.) Metalurgical study should be complete before November (after further results and further tests). Then it will be a matter of whether (to also answer your second question) of whether they do a JV, receive funding by selling the rights to sell the metals, or will have enough cash through Mandilla etc to mine this themselves.
The key is that this is the company's key focus at the moment, and that whatever the results of the above are it will make the company worth a lot more than it is at the moment.
1.) Metalurgical study should be complete before November (after further results and further tests). Then it will be a matter of whether (to also answer your second question) of whether they do a JV, receive funding by selling the rights to sell the metals, or will have enough cash through Mandilla etc to mine this themselves.
The key is that this is the company's key focus at the moment, and that whatever the results of the above are it will make the company worth a lot more than it is at the moment.