MoneyK,

CUUVenturer slammed the door shut on the idea of streaming to finance the build.  At the interest rate that Teck can borrow at the financing cost will be one 20th of $2 Billion given away to a streamer.  And you should know that Teck has a $3 Billion undrawn line of credit.  And lots of free cash flow now.  So Teck doesn't even need to turn to anyone else to qualify for and arrange financing.

And oh, streaming silver?  How does that happen?  Everyone is forgetting that there will be no silver under Teck's mine plan.  100 million ounces MI&I, i.e. $2.4 Billion is not worth going after with a minor tweek to infrastructure, I guess.  I say its short sighted to abandon silver extraction but what do I know.  Maybe they can add it back once we're out of the picture...But anyway, you'll just have to forget about the silver.  Frankly it was only 3-4% of NPV, so who knows maybe NPV even improved from removing the cost of the silver extraction technology.  For now anyways...Silver, RIP...