it's very simple:Management, management, management.
Unless the useless/worthless/lying (I can provide e-mail evidence to prove this) Bakers cede control, no serious financiers will back this venture.
Is a deal in the works? I don't know but it is a fact that deals have been in the works for the past 3 years or so and nothing was crystallised.
That is a very consistent track record. Why should it be any different this time?
Doesn't matter how good the geology is.
Bb