Both posts are very interesting! Thanks for this.

Liddy: Very interesting speculation; actually some had mentioned a while ago something about ES playing poker with Teck. The drills would have been a good bluff. Perhaps it worked. Maybe the mapping and whatever fieldwork was done in this area gave management a high enough level of confidence (statistically speaking) to warrant a decent price from Teck but when they tried to underbid, EE ans ES agreed to spend more on drilling to poke a few holes and prove up a correlation and tell the world about it, à la ATAC Resource or Orezone Gold.

WG: Perhaps you could write a part 2 to follow-up your post.