NOT has shown us at Windfall they are willing and able to test mine/ exploration.... before completing a global resource.

The test being is there sufficent resource availible to squeeze out some return on equity and further the knowledge of the resource oportunity. In doing so they make it easier to advance the project which drilling alone would take hundreds of holes. Those holes when drilled with helicopter support ed camps and drilles are very expensive / hole.

Maybe permiting for an airstrip is step one toward a test pit on DE1.... In order to build an airstrip you need material.... excavation of overburden over DE1 could be that source of material. An ice road would allow equipment, fuel and provisioning of a larger camp to be brought in maybe this year???

This would allow test mining and metalergical sample for full production which could come out via ice road in the second year.