"I have no one to blame except myself." C'mon, Operations, get with it, this is 2012 - there is always someone else to blame!!! LOL, nice post and best of luck; glad you will still post.
It's all hard to understand, but the talk of skyrocketing miners just seems destined to fall by the wayside. It may happen, but it may be only when everyone leasts expects it.
I've got similar problems in developmental biotech (no matter how good it sounds, it never seems to work out), so all you resource only guys, you're not the only sector that is getting hit.