“If (Eagles Nest) was beside a highway or a railway, it would be in production now,” Noront Resources president Wes Hanson told delegates at the MassMin 2012 conference in Sudbury earlier this summer. Duh ?!?
And if my auntie had nuts she`d be my uncle.
"airborne geophysical surveys." "in the Ring of Fire, an 80 kilometer by 100 kilometer swath of muskeg in Northern Ontario".
Which brings us right back to the salient point that anyone complaining here always seems to forget.One of the few things we know to be true.We were told !
When this "rush" started in 2007,we were told in all honesty,due to the above factors,that we`d be LUCKY to see any juniors producing anything worthwhile within ten years.
I`ve got half a dozen of the juniors up there too,and would love to see something soon,but i`m betting that my grandchildren are going to be VERY happy some day,fifteen-twenty years from now.I knew that going in
And that`s IF we don`t get eaten alive first at today`s SP
In all fairness,go back to 2007/08 and any reputable mining news sources all stated this very fact.2015/2016 were the dates being tossed around
This is not Voisey`s Bay in development friendly Newfoundland,and look how long it took them to get going,and that was without one HUGE extra hurdle the ROF has to deal with.
DeBeers is a horse of a different colour