of the border, that constrains short term labor supply, so they don't actually get to the heart of a lot of the issues that we've been dealing with, and especially while we're ramping up the two plants. When something breaks, or when we've got to do a, a shutdown, you typically can't get the labor, at least not in the way we used to, to create the peak load that's required to get the jobs done quickly. So a shutdown that should have taken, uh, 36 hours, takes, you know, takes 52, and, uh, and a, you know, broken bore nail coupling takes, takes sort of 56 hours to, to fix, when it should have taken 24. You know, that type of thing. Uh, that, that's really one of the key issues, and then our contractors, the mining contractors, feel it as well. Uh, they typically have a slightly higher sort of transitory workforce, and they're highly mobile, and what's happening now is everyone's fishing from the same pool in that, that contract that's stayed, uh, and it's leading to lots of, uh, you know… it's a challenge of accessing labor and hanging onto labor for our contractors. So, so yeah. It's, the border's been continued to close creates challenges in that key personnel, and, and the extent to which, which our contractors can retain their personnel. So the, it's a big issue. Uh, the sooner the border's open, and we get the, the, you know, the, the mobility back in the workforce is really the key. And so presumably you, you seen the negative impact of those labor challenges is greater than the COVID impact will be when it starts spreading through your workforce, you know, as it, as it is over here? Definitely some risk to, to the production environment, the WA mining companies, no two ways about it, though it should be relatively transitory, IE measured in months. You know, a couple of months, not, not six to twelve months. Thanks Ken. Thank you. The next question comes from Adam Baker from Global Mining Research. Please go ahead. Good day Ken and team. Uh, yeah, just a question on the, the mine grades. Uh, they've been above reserve grade at, uh, 1.18%, uh, for quite some time. Uh, just wondering, uh, you know, what your inaudible saying about, you know, coming back to meet with the reserve grade, you know, how far off are we from that? Yeah, good question to pick up, Adam. Uh, I'd say we're reasonably clear, historically, that Pilgan, or, or the original Pilgangoora operation was always mining a slightly higher grade in the two or four years, roughly, uh, of production. Uh, that's rather a function of the way the ore presents at Pilgangoora. So, uh, so nothing's particularly sort of tricky there. Uh, but the lower reserve grade, also, hasn't resulted from the, the addition of the south pitch, IE the former Altura operations, which again was always a lower reserve grade than the original Pilgangoora reserve grade. Uh, so that also explains some of the gap. Uh, yeah, so, uh, with being in production there for about two or three years, so we've got another year or two worth of slightly elevated grades, and, uh, and then, and then they'll start to revert more to the, to the reserve north. Sure, thanks for that. Uh, to inaudible, yeah, you mentioned that, uh, you know, there's going to be a, a potential review to go with the half year result in February. I'm just wondering to the impact to the second half financial year 2022 got us, but just wondering how likely it is to impact the target of 540 to 580 inaudible by mid year. So, yeah. Yeah, all discussions come, you don't know we've got about another four weeks prior to the half year as well. There are several things going through our mind there, and the next three or four weeks will probably be informative. Uh, the first is the effect of continuous planning. Uh, there's a big gap between the historical production at 300, 30,000, inaudible tons per annum, compared to where we're going, 580,000 inaudible concentrate tons per annum, and that guidance has been reviewed to the speed with which we can bring on that capacity. Uh, so we really need another three or four weeks to see how we go with the patch, uh, and, and, you know, the work that's already happened, and integrating the combination of new equipment, especially targeted to, where we're bringing on the operations circuit. Uh, so that's part one. Uh, as to absolute production capacity, a 580,000 tons will, you know, we're still confident about getting that run rate, even the middle of the year, uh, as a function of both tax, and, and their performance. So, so the figure we're sensitive to is the remaining ramp up. Uh, lastly, it's worthwhile mentioning the borders and COVID. You know, there's obvious community transmission going on here now. Mining companies are going to start feeling that. Uh, so we are sensitive to, to what that impact might be. Now indirectly, it's already hurt us, because we, we struggled to get these people, as I described. Uh, but it's possible there's also production impact from the community transmission, and how that relates to our available workforce. So, given- To our available workforce. So give us another three or four weeks knowing we'll have that largely cleared, cleared up, and, um, we'll provide a more definitive guide. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. There are no further telephone questions at this time. I'll now hand over to Nicholas Reid for any webcast questions. Thanks Rachel, we have a number of, uh, questions that have been logged online to the team here. Um, firstly, uh, some questions from John Beckworth. He says, Could you please expand on the company's, uh, strategy and the initiatives that have been put in place to deal with the current skills and labor challenges and risks in WI? Yeah, a good question, John, um, and, yes, of course there has already been actually significant response. Um, so the first thing is to taken on, um, some of the, the challenge I feel, um, inaudible Minerals have commenced its own mining fleet. And the logic in doing that, uh, it's multifaceted. But one of the key drivers is the relative accessibility of longer term employees by inaudible and Mineral as compared to our contractors. Um, and it's all to do with the way the workforce works here in WA. Most employees, not all, but most employees would say longer term employment with an established company is a safer bet. And I think we also trade on the benefits of being involved in the new economy in mining, um, factory raw materials, which is seen as the future and hence that, that brand has a better, um, attraction and retention status. So that's the key thing that we've taken on ourselves, and, uh, so far so good, we haven't had too many traumas accessing tables, uh, ourselves, but certainly our contractors have. Um, there has also been, um, work done with