Sydney >Fair asessment bostrin, but may i assure you....no suitor is ever more interested in you, or in this case your sc share, and willing to ante up, than when there is attractive or deep pocketed serious competition out there-i.e. negotiate from a point of strength....<

That is true...hopefully there is another major or investment firm that is showing interest enough to put some fire under Tecks butt. But the less minerals proven up the less chance of them wanting on board. Which could be why the 2013 drill program did not start until the leaves turned yellow and ended when they fell to the ground.

The BFS was delivered to Teck early in 2013. Could they not have come up with a tentative JV agreement enough to start drilling in the spring and work out the details later?

I guess if Ernesto is not having anxiety attacks about this then neither should I. (not a good investment strategy though)