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"Teck wants to move forward, we've been told very definitively," Lassonde told The Globe and Mail in an interview. "For them, it's a question of consulting their bankers and consulting other groups. We're told that they want to get something done between 8-12 weeks."

Lassonde likely will need the backing of Teck's (TECK) existing coal joint venture steelmaking partners, Japan’s Nippon Steel and South Korea's Posco, before his proposal can succeed, but in the interview he indicated optimism that both would back his proposal.