Moving Forward and Upward, page-6

My two points: the contractor is a service provider. They do what you tell them to do and yes in many cases not exactly what you would like. But at end of the day whilst that is good and valid reason to move to another better performing contractor it can't compensate for when mine management cant manage. It's these management decisions that chop out real value (or make it) for a mine. I've seen in from both sides (as a contractor and a mine owner) where it's just easy to blame the man with the tools for the building falling down. Second point was a sharing of "gossip" (and I'll ** that given that it was shared by another person so everyone take that as "gossip" and choose to ignore accordingly) so yes that is a valid comment to ignore. But if you dig into the reports, consider the numbers and interpret known market costs for the operation like this, the company needs money to survive the negative cash flows which is obvious in the companies reports. The numbers don't add up for the grades etc. Plenty of mines with a lot of gold in the pot at the end of the rainbow but never get there because they couldn't get there after running out of cash.