The company is doing the annual assessment work which allows:
Assessment work includes, but is not limited to, drilling, excavations, driving shafts and tunnels, sampling (geochemical or bulk), road construction on or for the benefit of the mining claim; and geological, geochemical, and geophysical surveys.
Look and see what they are allowed under the assessment work.
This is being done while waiting for the Phase 1 of their Plan of Operations to be approved.