My Theory It's a safe bet that one of the three companies involved in this discovery will soon want to have it all. It always ends up with those who have the deepest pockets..........a given. Generally, when a take out happens, the takeover price is normally based on a predetermined number of past trading days.
If there is a way of suppressing the price, eg: keep the ask side large compared too the bid side and then let a few trade at the low bid, one can guess that any takeover might be double the current trading price so the company making the offer can boast that they are offering 100% higher than the average trading price of the last so many days.
The assays continue to prove that this will be an operational mine, it's only a matter of time. Finally, how about the Kasala Copper-Cobalt Project-Democratic of Congo (DRC). This is worth a couple dollars all by itself as soon as this is resolved. Enough said. What's going on here anyway?