The cost I found online for a single drill hole is about 2500 dollars and takes about 2 months.
Dig a little deeper on your internet research. Drillers will charge you more than that to just to load up their equipment and drive to your project site.
What a bunch of crap that answer from LBSR was on Agoracom. Now before permits are allowed there still needs an expensive vegetation study done??? Was this not done years ago??? Did JB not know about this study needing to be done??? How can you say the site is drill ready without permits, is this just a play on words??? I'm sorry this is really looking like JB and the BOD don't know what the hell they are doing. No wonder nobody wants to partner up with them.