Last week, when Jim Puplava publicly said that Tyhee’s management lacked the "depth" to go it alone into production, I was outraged. I was jolted by what I heard, not entirely because of what he said, per se, but because of what he didn't say.

Jim wrote me that Tyhee's management lacked the "experience" as well as the "depth" to develop a mine.

What Jim still has not said (echoes of Dave Morgan past), is why, in the face of the all those impressively successful mining careers of ALL of Tyhee's managers and directors, he chose to come up with what seems an absurdly opposite, unsupported conclusion?

Okay, he may just be voicing a level of frustration that we all feel (notice how I’m trying to temper my rage?). After all, you can always blame management because ultimately, they’re responsible for everything, including managing external factors. What I take umbrage with, is Jim’s singling out Tyhee, when with very few exceptions (including even his own Kimber Resources), those depressed share prices, undervaluation of gold in the ground, and the challenges of financing, are industry wide phenomena.

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