"however it seems that Agapov doesn't intend to do anything about Brisas and so he apparently isn't going to try to combine it with LC"

Hi Vet,

This one's pretty simple. You "pitch" a combined project to the Vennies and they give you the green light to start the "combined project" of Brisas and Las Cristinas. Then, and this is really ingenious :-) , you mine LC and ignore Brisas. If the Vennies give you grief (which I doubt as long as part of the project is active) you invent all kinds of excuses and lies which the Vennies can readily identify with... you cite all sorts of imaginary delays and difficulties with equipment, expertise etc. You basically leave Brisas as moose pasture (hey, I'm in Newfoundland) and do nothing with it for as long as you can get away with it... say, twenty years or so...