I am thinking that parties evaluating the property have much deeper pockets than the investors lined up with JB.  And, they have the mining expertise to dovetail  with the expertise on the BOD.  Why spend investor money on drilling and then move on to find a deep pocket miner to develop it when the depockets can do both.   Especially, if the deep pocket miners are seriously interested and find it is worth the risk to drill and develop if drilling pans out.   Is this too simplistic?     I am not a mining expert.