re oil, our mill is hooked up to the electric grid, which is a competitive advantage should any fool wish to build their own mill w/i each trucking of ours, because the electric substation newly necessary should act as deterrence by way of any proforma
so, our gold, i am guessing, is actually natural gas
and, given the desire to expedite eventual and further permits, licenses, and deter foreign, especially chinese competitors, we must crank up the political machinery, and in another sense, our gold is politics
in too many ways the manufacturing of 9999 bars involves a whole lot of details that business / economic schools should require as part of core learning that brings together many disciplines
math, physics, and chemistry civil, mechanical, electrical, electronic and industrial engineering accounting, finance, valuation energy logistics, gant charting, drawing shopping for new and used equipment human resource planning and management, motivation partner selection joint venture negotiations wheeling and dealing option trading and futures hedging macro economics politics creative writing leadership ... |