Well ok, I will give you the professional bit. But it is not assured, while not - not assured.
Ded Red Lake is a good play. Will have lots of people hoping for a long while yet. Goldcorp and others have given it sturdy legs. From 1979 to 1994 it was a camp with an uncertain future. As each Goldcorp year goes by, it seems that there is more hope and more work being injected into the camp.
A lot of people on second thought would ask John, "OK< if it is good enough for your wife and kids, why not risk some of the OPM on it?" Well it may be that it is not yet in a producer-developer pipeline. That may change.
Not day to day breathless excitement, but I have the feeling that given the chance to bet on it, I would lay chips down that Red Lake will be a prime place for gold companies to explore 5 years from now, and beyond that. It will take a long time to lose momentum.
In some ways a lot of gold camps should maintain momentum that do not have investor focus. Tintina Trench, Val D'Or, Kirkland Lake, Geraldton Beardmore, Yellowknife, Timmins et al. There is opportunity for discovery in every one of them. A gold camp takes centuries to burn out, and even then you are never sure.
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