RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Very quietThat's not how an NPV works. An NPV assumes a projected rate of return via the rate that you discount future cash flows (the discount rate). At a 10% discount rate, the NPV will be higher than it would be at a 20% discount rate since you will be discounting future cash flows less severely. In the former scenario, at a 100% NPV, the financial upside would be a 10% internal rate of return. In the latter, it would be a 20% internal rate of return.
So, a company in its right mind could potentially pay 100% of NPV for a uniquely-attractive asset with lots of competing buyer interest if the implied internal rate of return was deemed high enough.
All of the talk of a discount to NPV on this board is just another way of saying that prospective bidders for mining assets have customarily wanted much higher internal rate of return, presumably because of the myriad risks involved.