And we exhaust our gold reserves for little or no capital gain...

And we exhaust our gold reserves for little or no capital gain or dividend and then we could flog the DZP off. ALK isn't a gold coy. It is multi metal and the plan for quite some time has been to develop our flagship, globally unique and strategically important resource with as little S/H dilution as possible. Companies change, BHP is one example. They were set up to mine Broken Hill silver/lead. If BHP had not evolved they wouldn't be around today. Broken Hill made BHP, DZP will make ALK. Has anyone heard of Mount Morgan Mines lately? Anyone who has entered ALK in the last 3-5 years wasn't chasing a pure gold play, they have their eyes on a monster deposit called DZP. So yes lets float the DZP and make some underwriters even richer: Well maybe not for me, I'm here for DZP and the wealth it will generate for S/H (ME!)