This mineral exploration site near Haines has had 3 owners in the last year. Is that normal?

Core rock samples at the Palmer Project. (Claire Stremple/KHNS)
A controversial mineral exploration project north of Haines has changed hands twice in the last year. That included earlier this month, when Vizsla Copper purchased the Palmer Project in exchange for $15 million of its company stock.
Steve Masterman currently serves as deputy director of the Alaska Critical Minerals Collaborative at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Before that, he was the state geologist.
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