imo, the gold is in the gound and will take many decades to mine, its only reserves, hopefully proven by our drilling. the good part is the bigger the reserve amount, the more value the gold giant has. The numbers we are talking about when we start doing the math, holy wow! Adding to you money question, does anyone think big gold could be having closed talks with big money to raise the funds? Could sli be assisting them ? Recent big money meetings in the usa were they for sli? Just thowing ideas out.