You believe that PR from 2011?? Well, fast forward to 2013 and Hondo has sold off much of the equipment on the property, and ADEQ has issued them a Notice of Violation for illegally disturbing historic tailings without benefit of an Aquifer Protection Permit.
Any investor buying Hondo's assets will have to deal with a multi-year, very expensive permitting process whether they do any "processing" or not. Hondo has opened up Pandora's box.