I guess your right thou prospekt that Elmer would hire someone top sell this....but that would not make sense why would not have drilled the 10 holes to begin with?
This is the big disappointment of the feasibility. I have to assume that they did not know this would be a problem while heading into the summer drilling season, and they clearly did not think they had time to drill and then incorporate the results into the feasibility. By the time they knew the situation, they must have just decided to produce the feasibilty and get Teck on the clock.
Apparently they have had calls of interest over the years, but it is a very time-consuming job to do a thorough due diligence and costly so it is unlikely any company would start the process until Teck makes their decision.