RE:RE:RE:money?chuckie, I don't think a company knows "where the gold is" until they extract cores at that spot and verify their educated guesses based on their geological expertise.
Perhaps part of the reason for LAB's recent runup in price is that speculators are betting that NFG's Appleton results will be replicated on the portion of Appleton that is on LAB land....? This may or may not prove to be the case, but the only way you'll know for sure is by drilling in the target area(s) you believe hold the most promise for great assay results.
As Steven Stiffer said in one of the American Pie movies" "You don't score until you score".