My guess is that Eco is buying in mining development externally....

My guess is that Eco is buying in mining development externally. Whether this has anything to do with the (presumed) dismissal of Van Wijk is pure speculation. Excerpt from the last Quarterly:

An independent mine closure planning specialist has been engaged to incorporate mine closure recommendations in the current mine planning and scheduling to ensure a robust mine closure strategy is developed and to prepare a conceptual Mine Closure Plan.Knight Piesold has completed an open pit lake salinity assessment for the closure plan and updated the Project hydrogeological model.Knight Piesold is also reviewing the planned Project access road design to reduce the cost and timeframe to construct the initial road to site this calendar year to enable site access over the next wet season.