glad i'm not working for any of you, page-20

It's an old story that originated in the 1800s in the California gold rush. You can find it on Snopes. All the same, this is the kind of thing that goes on out there and always will.

Mining is a hard game played by harder men. If they weren't like that, they wouldn't cope with +45 degrees, occasional cyclones, snakes, deadly rockfalls and even deadlier equipment.

Prostitutes are the least of your worries. Even in South Africa, let alone the less developed rest of Africa, shafts are still used to dispose of bodies.

And the guys in expensive suits at the top are the most dangerous of the lot. They will do whatever is necessary to get what they want.

If anyone wants a glimpse of the struggle for control that will surely come (assuming Nova really is the next Voisey Bay), you could read this:

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Big-Score-Friedland-Voiseys/dp/0385259069

That's why I said a while ago that we will need a strong board. Of course I was immediately howled down. To that extent, the values here are naïve, if not weird.