I fear Don and EE are both headstrong & we could be waiting for a long time.

Its as though it has gotten personal with Don.  It makes no business sense to delay making some sort of a move with Schaft Creek.  It will only cost them much much more to wait and buy out the 25% later on in copper's current super-cycle. 

I still think that it will take $6 copper to force Teck to abandon Don's starve-the-jr strategy.   Hopefully we get there before too much longer.