I was thinking the same thing when I was writing earlier.
If the global economy continues to improve, commodity prices such as oil, nat gas, lumber, copper, other metals etc.... will only increase in price along with it. Global demand vs. Global Supply + commodities option traders manipulating the prices (up or down) dictate where the price of a commodity goe's.......so it could actually benefit CPRK in the long run to produce as much of their copper as they can at higher prices.
However, in the short term, they gotta get "at least some" revenue rolling at current copper prices to secure the STF/LTF financing, payoff the monthly burn rate for operations & acheive some debt paydown, to attract investors back into the ballgame.
It must be a pain in the rear right now for management to be juggling all these variables.
