Interesting point

I agree that the 4 year is not a benefit to us here, but agree with logic of whichever explorer managed to get whichever deep pocket he was dealing with to commit to a time frame to build subject to positive exploration results

As we can certainly appreciate, the tactic of simply outwaiting a junior partner and then offering peanuts, is alive and well in the mining industry

...and your point that agreements pre-dating Salazar may still be extant and not within the power of CUU and Teck to modify is not an angle that had occurrred to me