I'm thinking too that the "international mining company" is not among those companies we are dealing with from the ME.

I'm guessing, but I would put BHP or Rio Tinto at the top of the list. After all, it was BHP who took a closed old mine at Superior, AZ, and turned it into the Resolution Copper project - later JVd with Rio -, perhaps the largest copper discovery ever. Point being, BHP may well be more interested in an exporation project like Hay Mountain than would be, say, Freeport. Having said that, Freeport owns claims near Tombstone anyway.

Also I note that the PR does not say, MAJOR internation mining company, so it could as well be a well capitalize junior.

Time will tell, .......................or it won't.