RE:3 Right AwayMicrocap companies that assay their own core samples? Ya, great idea. They announced already that they will need to send the good cores out for third party confirmation... so it sounds like the lab work is going to cost them twice. Maybe that's why the resutls are taking so long.
IRV can find a lab in Japan where they are drilling.
AWE has no cash to drill with.
Not much info on the Chinese company running Vatukoula, other than the mine was shuttered in 2008 as non-economic and was recently re-opened.