Yes, they could have shut down expensive boots-on-the-ground exploration and gone prospecting in the sharemarket, like we did ... instead they [speaking of majors collectively] did the opposite in many cases - pdg.to et al let Mulatos go to ngt.v which some of us were buying scads of as low as thirteen cents, now it's Alamos at seven fifty and cheap at that price, compared to where it's headed
The mid-tiers rise, they're more nimble, or more interested maybe ... 'when you're number two you try harder', well actually that seems to apply to numbers four through seventeen better, maybe
Kind of amusing that Oliphant and Threlkeld of abx are now wgi.to - looks like it wasn't the grey matter of individuals that was ossified, at least not those individuals, might have been the machinery of corporate state, or something ... you can only engineer an elephant so big, before its legs don't support it and its skin bursts, likewise the reason little bugs can jump high is because they're little, try doing that yourself in proportion, hah |
