Here's my guess, I say 2 months at the most as I think a major piece of such a study is doing the infill and definition work that they have done. The rest is matter of course template type data collection. Can it be expedited or not? Are they busy at Micon and is there a set timeline? As was talked about this morning each and every new set of drill results adds to the resource picture as well.

I am very curious to see what the credit minerals may look like, if they bother with that.

I think the scoping study is in very capable hands and these guys know the ropes. Do they do the required metallurgical work or does ISM pick the outfit to do that? I tried googling Micon last weekend to get a feel for how they do it by reading Nickel company's NR's wrt Micon involvement and NI 43-101's.

I also looked for initial NI 43-101 type announcements and then the accompanying final completion announcements to try to feel out timelines, but didn't have much luck there :(