I wonder if this is a possibility. I have heard people say before that we may be further ahead than most think.Lori has been known to hold back news, so could have she held back the exact date that we started drilling? Here is an excerpt from the trenching release that may indicate drilling COULD have started around that date. Also below that is the expected time for drilling 10,000m from our tech report.I can,t get the chart for drilling like the one I put up for trenching copied here for some reason. Its on page 40 of the tech report if anyone wants to check. It says 80 days for drilling that part and IF we started May 17 th, that would put us finished that phase around Aug 17th, allow 6 weeks for assays, that would put us around Sept 30th. Take note in this drilling part that the company is only doing assays for gold instead of a full suite, that tells us that they expect gold as the primary metal. The $25 cost for samples tells me that its a fire assay for gold, a full suite assay casts much more.

"The trenching program has been designed to confirm the direction, size and continuity of the mineralized structures and to delineate additional drilling targets. In conjunction with the trenching program, St. Elias will be commencing its 2011 drilling program. In an effort to increase the pace of trenching, the Company will utilize both local labor and mechanized trenching methods."

http://steliasmines.com/newsrelease/extensive-trenching-program-commencing-at-the-tesoro-gold-project-in-peru/

This is probably far fetched, but I am throwing this scenario out there because of how Lori HASN,T been reporting news regularily.