The taxpayer incurred various pre-feasibility expenses in relation to a large and complex gold-bearing deposit in BC including for engineering services related to the geotechnical stability of rock (relevant to any open pit slope design), modelling of costs of any mine, studies of water management control and of mine waste management and tailings impoundment, underground mine analysis and design, detailed design and operating cost estimates to assess whether the project might potentially be economically viable, geotechnical drilling services and studies regarding access roads and slurry sys