yep if you raise to advance the project but in this case they...

yep if you raise to advance the project but in this case they would probably only raise to pay wages.

Raise $10m, commit to a diamond drill program, still can't add tonnage and ESS would be at 25c hoping to find a partner to fund a chunk of the capex and take 70% of the project.

That's the problem with having a small project with no upside unless you drill the hell out of it which ESS cannot do