Ann: WAF Receives Strong Interest from Leading Debt Financiers, page-42

There is also the time (although less often executed) when a tier 1 operator sees fit to purchase a mine off a said explorer who have a highly valued resource they feel a threat to their immediate future & simply, mothball the newly acquired resource for later exploitation into better gold prices or when their mine is running low on grade so as to either switch over to mining new resource full steam ahead or, mine it for additional feed in which to feed with their now fast depleting resource/s of their own...