Thank you for sharing that conversation. You wrote, in part:

"... I thought Galore was an inferior project for all sorts of reasons but, in hindsight, I wonder if that was based on Vette's exuberance..."

I'm no expert, as anyone here can attest, but I too always thought that Galore was an inferior project for all sorts of reasons basing my belief on a combination of facts and reasonable suppositions rather than anything any ex-poster might have said. So, your colleague's comment is puzzling to me. I still think it makes sense to develop Schaft before Galore. I wonder what he meant by lower hanging fruit? Some resource other than copper perhaps?