el mutun, page-10

and for every thousand acorn seeds only a single sturdy tree grows, the seed is past its use by date, its no longer fertile and the farmers have never even grown a sapling, they use dodgy seed, in dodgy soil, with dodgy water and all their old farms are full of tumble weeds.

all this ridiculous analogies :) I would suggest its not vision thats required to see the merits of these opportunities , what is required is a stethoscope in order to detect a pulse, the parrots dead its nailed to the perch, its an ex parrot, its no longer a viable enterprise, folks can make all the grandiose claims in the world, a mongol horde of Chinese investors may arrive out of nowhere and save the day, the Bolivians might become seduced by JK's bubble personality, someone might drop $40m by helicopter to start the mine.........anythings possible, what investment is about though is dealing with the probable and judging by history, 100% of the time they fail.