Hi The Analyst, perhaps they are not smarter , but what they do have is access to is funds, so whilst explorers have to somehow achieve funding the big companies can just get on with taking it to mining. Massive advantage for them and I guess a takeover avoids funding risk for the smaller explorer.
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