"Someone has to be blamed."

Really?  We are not playing football here.  In football, there are rules for the game.  Success and failure are easy to measure, and coaches ultimately have to accept responsibility for one or more instances of bad seasons.

In our case, we are speaking of a business subject to innumerable external factors.  Notable among these are social and political, political and market factors.  JB got shut out of Alaska by not only bad weather but by both social and political pressures.  The same can be said for the North Pipe project and a changed market for uranium.  While never active in the stable of properties, Silverbell is lost to social and political pressures.  The PP to drill Hay Mountain seems to have failed because momentum could not be built upon by the addition of claims that were then expected to have been forthcoming.  But that became complicated for years by matters internal to the Arizona State Lands Commission, not JB.   

Do you want to hold JB responsible for bad luck?  If COVID-19 alone delays positive action regarding Hay Mountain in the next months and years, will you blame BG for failing to avoid bad luck?