My understanding of it was that the cores had to be logged by...

My understanding of it was that the cores had to be logged by KORES prior to assaying. There were certainly some weeks delay attributed to this gap between the drilling and the assaying. You may be correct that there are some further KORES follow up with the assay results. However, 2 things;
1) KORES should be simply CCd into the results email. This shouldn't in any practical way impede SAU from releasing the results to the market. Why would KORES even care?
2) if there are any impediments to the release of results, citing KORES follow up - that 7-10 day timeframe given in the 5/10 announcement is a very poorly crafted sentence seriously lacking detail.

I totally buy the unfortunate sequence of events that have delayed these results. It's true they're not the be all to end all. Time to get on with it though.