"The ROI would require someone to buy it for les than ~ $20m and...

"The ROI would require someone to buy it for les than ~ $20m and pray like hell the gold price holds up for 3 + years.'

Or maybe instead of praying put in hedged positions on both gold and oil for three years of mining , would require a well capped company to do that , as would also need to change the mining plan , and run their own trucks 200 tonne minimum payload instead of 100 tonne (777s) instead of using contractors and run a far bigger excavator on the waste rock . Company like CMM could probably do it .
An accountant or Mining engineer running the company has a different strategy from someone who just knows how to drill holes and look at assays