As an aside I have spoken to Doug recently and he told me that they have had calls from other companies looking to do deals in other countries (he even mentioned that some were in Canada)..

There are quite a few reasonable projects owned by juniors who cannot finance them in the present economic conditions who would love to be able to get access to GRZ's equipment and money. GRZ has the staf , expertise, sufficient spare cash and equipment to jump start a number of presently stalled exploration/development plays.

Doug indicated that there was no plans to change direction at the present time, but the option would be explored further if something particularily attractive came up or if Venezuela got bogged down in legal delays.