"Venezuelan Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz denied Thursday that the government was planning to offer the Las Cristinas gold mine, one of the largest in Latin America, to Rusoro Mining Ltd. (RML.V) after taking back the mine from Crystallex (KRY). Asked by Dow Jones Newswires if the government was planning to offer Las Cristinas to Rusoro, Sanz replied: "We haven't defined anything on that," adding that "it's something that we haven't thought about.""

Exactly why nobody should consider this an issue at all - yet. The first questions that I asked were: (1) did Sanz actually say it? (2) was he correctly understood? (3) did he mean what he said, or was it just for internal domestic placation? (will anything actually come of this?

I had a hard time getting past number 1 and 2, and this article supports my scepticism.