Sprott is the main guilty here At one moment he finds out that Drumlummon is a lemon and RXE is risking going the way of the DODO bird, something Sprott can't afford (bid damage to the rest of his investments and funds, in terms of credibility), so he speaks with Brasutti and Pridham and decide to merge both companies to take advantage of USA's cash and, as we all know now, Galena will be the big prize here will be able to subsidize the lummon....the plan didnt work that well because they were expecting that, at the moment of closing the lummon, silver prices would be higher so people would be more focus on Galena....
BTW closing the lemmon now may push for the permit, since Helena will become a ghost town after all those "80k a year" employees are shown the door at the lummon, and at one point the will be begging us to reopen the mine, check this news: https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/drumlummon-mine-to-cease-operations-at-marysville-gold-mine/article_d73caa91-5605-5d9f-8ce2-7eb958afdd87.html