The politics of Mulatos ejido were actually quite simple, and never worried me ... the dispute came from thirteen ejidatarios only, out of sixty-five, the rest were in favour of the mine, and the sooner the better ... the thirteen just wanted more money, a few hundreds thousands, so it wasn't a make-or-break difference in costs anyway ... the progress of the suit through the courts did take time, but organising company structure and financing the mine was taking near as much time, so there was not much loss in the whole thing
The name of Chester Millar pretty much gave the geology of it a stamp of approval, to me ... so i never had much doubt in that regard, nor in competence of the company to build a mine, because he'd always done it before ... with Afton he finessed both Teck and the NDP, that was brilliant, after all the worrying days it took to resolve, everything he said came true ... i might have been a little too reliant on this, come to hindsight, but it happened to work out |
