Whether you find it to be of importance or not, I just want to put it out there that these trips were planned months ago. I'm pretty sure they thought they would have results when they left but, unfortunately, things didn't work out that way.
goldmining, I share your frustration but you should realize that the traveling and promotion that mgmt has been doing is in no way correlated to the cost of assays and so I don't think it makes a whole lot of sense to talk about trading one off for the other.
Suffice it to say that if these results are not satisfactory, I'll have no problem taking my money elsewhere. Until then, I wait impatiently and hope that that won't be necessary.