centres around the word "hope" is he saying he hopes to be able...

centres around the word "hope" is he saying he hopes to be able to tell us they;ve hit similar mineralisation because he hopes it will happen, or in the first few days of drilling they've successfully hit mineralisation and they "hope" to be able to show us the results of the assays in a few weeks.

I read it to be the first case, where hes just assuming it will be the same, and quite fairly. massive "fat" pegmatites outcropping at surface with visible spodumene for all to see. He's pretty confident and so is everyone else.