rf_capital, True enough, but there is at least one success story this year...... Fortune Minerals bought a producing silver mine in Colorado and will be using profits there to help finance its Canadian project. I don't kwow of any other similar strategy panning out in the last 12 months. We were hoping the Santa Fe deal would have made Tyhee the first to succeed in 2013. Alas, only Fortune could pull it off, so to speak. Unless you know of others?