After the meeting I posed this question to PQ.

Since large investors such as Allen Simon are investing in SFMI ultimately to gain exposure to precious metals, would it be possible to structure Private Placement deals with payouts in actual metal rather than dilutive shares? He said there may very well be deals structured in this manner and he was quite open and supportive of the idea.

Don't know if this will go anywhere but it would certainly be an attractive option to me, were I to throw a big check at the company.

(Unfortunately, any big check I threw at the company would come bouncing back pretty quickly)

Go SFMI