Adding on to this, it's very hard to convince the market that...

Adding on to this, it's very hard to convince the market that you can raise fund for the "unicorn" project, when you have a project that is supposedly VERY CLOSE to production with an NPV several multiples of the current mc.

You just can't. It doesn't make sense when you can't raise a few dozen millions USD and at the same time expect the market to buy in that you can build something magnitude bigger than this project.

So I think the upcoming funding news is almost a make or break news for this company, at least in short to medium term. It's simply critical, not only for this project, but also a direct hint at how "plausible" future projects will happen.