If you haven't sold along time ago or you are just plain upside down on this, well then you are forced to be patient whether you like it or not. I am sure that most if not all of the delay has been caused by Venezuela.
One thing I have not heard in a long time is "perfect storm", and I miss that. We would prob be going into production now if.....................
As far as the price of gold goes, the Dollar almost reached 52 week lows this morning. I think you also can see the anticipation of that in the POG. When the dollar breaks into new low territory, gold could do a major spike higher. So IMO if you have been trending the Dollar chart since last May you would see the chances of this happening are getting pretty good.