from the last ann.....what exactly is the purpose of diamond...

from the last ann.....what exactly is the purpose of diamond drilling and test pits on the plant and trailing storage sites?
"Representatives of GRES and Knight Piesold completed their initial site visit in November and subsequent to that diamond drilling and test pits have been completed on the proposed plant and TSF sites and samples sent to the laboratory for geotechnical analysis."

Is John Park referring to SYR (which has a MC of over $500m) in his below comment????
"Whilst the company has always believed and has demonstrated its graphite is amongst the best quality in the world the Epanko project can now be considered competitive in terms of scale to some of the large deposits currently being explored in other countries."

Just a quick comment on the staged plan to increase production to 100k - I would like to think that opex will come down from USD450-500 per ton. it would be interesting to see others thoughts on that.