Troubled commodities aspirant Salt Lake Potash now believes it will start generating revenue just weeks before it is due to start repaying debt, giving it a strong incentive to end its habit of over-promising and under-delivering.

Salt Lake Potash was poised to be the first of a fleet of new Australian potash producers when construction of its processing plant at Western Australia’s Lake Way was completed in June, but sustainable production was never achieved after disappointing geological and processing results.