just to fuel the fire....
you could probably say that obtaining $100mil in financing to buy equipment to build a mine that you did'nt have permitted yet and obviously had a risk of being nationalized was a big f'n mistake...
say what you want about doug b. being an idiot and fung being a genious but... doug held onto the cash and fung did not. i believe that is largely due to the fact that doug had his own skin in the game and kry mngt never did.
"mistakes, they made a few, they traveled each and every bi-way, but more, much more than this....they did it kry way"