Sorry, I got called away before I could add all my thoughts...

This group of claims now owned by Teck and Mr Marko are the same claims that made up the Jay/Scotch claims that had the tourlamine mineral and CuU was optioning them then let them slip off the table. Subsequently, CJL let them forfeit recently which is odd since they had very good surface samples. I would not bet against CUU purchasing the claims now owned by Mr Marko.

Seperately, Galore has been doing a wee bit of claim grabbing itself. On the weekend of Jan 27th, Galore Creek Mining registered the purchase of this claim 1016352 View Tenure from a private individual. It makes a lot of sense for Galore (vrs say, Teck) to do this as it is within GCM's larger set of claims. At the very least, this tells me that the lights are still on at Galore Creek Mining's offices and they are actively managing the project. This Galore claim is about 9.5 km (center to center) due west from the Marko/Teck claims recently staked and is the next ridge/valley east of the Galore deposit (and not part of the latest Galore plans as far as we know).

The counter point to much of this is why did anyone let the Jay/Scotch claims forfeit back to the Crown if they were promising? Why let anyone have a crack at staking them for relatively little money? The only thin reason I can think of is that Teck, Galore and CUU don't want to feed the staking rush by buying these claims outright and becomig a price taker. The bigger players here with the deeper pockets and the 'master plan' have the luxury of chosing their time and out waiting the little staker who has to pay each year a not insignificant sum (recently raised by the Province) to renew their claims. It is a bit of risk to let them go free for a short period, but in the greater scheme of things, it is a bigger risk to start a staking frenzy by a bunch of greedy Free Miners wanting to a piece of the action who stake anything and everything and drive up the price of mineral tenure. That is just a theory.