January Production, page-21

What a lot tend to forget is that our so called safe jurisdictions have bogged us down with ESG, political bias and so much red tape and associated costs that getting a mine permitted, built and fully operational has blown out to over 20 years in some cases. Meanwhile in other parts of the world, where business is more a dollars and sense attitude, things get done faster. Many of the African countries are setting themselves up to be resource rich producers in the near term. Our loss and their gain in my opinion, but as an investor there are a lot of opportunities in the developing countries, if one does the due diligence.