Have you ever tried telling management to spend less on themselves or to make fewer stupid decisions?
Unfortunately you don't own any gold and don't even have any meangingful say in what happens to the company's gold (unless you are a very big shareholder). You just own a claim on a company that may or may not operate profitably.
Gold miners - even a portfolio - are a poor way to invest in gold - high operational risk - returns often negatively correlated
- pure gold or leveraged gold products available to invest in gold