"Nothing worth announcing" can't be the reason, of course -...

"Nothing worth announcing" can't be the reason, of course - because that fact alone would be market sensitive.

The DD cores would have arrived at the lab well before the auger, I should think. Whether they do them in strict order of receipt I don't know, but I should think both the lab and PDI would be nervous about holding on to assay results once performed, for fear of leaks, so I would imagine there is a strict policy in the lab of passing on the completed assay results at least once a day - the lab is in Mali, I believe, and the time difference is such that the ASX is always going to be closed during daylight hours in Mali, so if they pass the results on each working day there is no risk of insider trading of PDI shares before the results reach PDI's inbox.

FWIW, I'm more interested in the pending RC results - we already know the orebody has an extensive footprint, it's the depth that interests me at this point. Which probably means there won't be anything overly fascinating until we see the next set of DD core results. There should be 4 or 5 of those holes completed by now, and if it was possible for them to jump the queue ahead of the auger I would certainly vote for that.