Perhaps the next project for the JV will be to put out a new RE?
Im not a miner, but a very practical person....doing more studies seems pretty BS to me. At what point does one say, "hey we know what we got here, lets just get in there and start going on this". Proving up this and that, REs, FSs...all important, but re-doing them seems to me to be a lot of wasted work and money...and time. All it seems to do is exactly what you are inferring - come to the same conclusions they already knew.
Eternal Optimist, Leaf Fan here....Im hoping this big Teck soire on Weds is to tell everyone about how they are moving ahead with a major metal deposit in N. BC called Shaft Creek with a new partner that will buy us out at a Billion.