VRIC 2018 - Chat with CEOI attended the VRIC today and chatted with the CEO, Tom Kennedy. They believe the increase in price is partly down to this article below (in German). They were giving copies of the article out at the conference. Not sure if it has been posted to this forum before. They say that they only found out about it a few days after it was published.
https://www.godmode-trader.de/artikel/klondike-silver-wird-das-nochmal-was,5701392
Also, he thinks production should get underway at the end of 2018. They are excited about drilling the previously undrilled 'Silver Mile' area.