Russ, my toned down observation (relative to Ninja & Threshold here) is that early stage mining companies are about the worst investment that can be made. There is a whole bunch of stuff that can go wrong. 1) At what real price does the chinese money come? 2) I have never known an early stage mine to get its capital requirements right upfront. In fact it is usually a trick of theirs to undersate this - so that they can go back to the begging bowl again later when investors are fully committed and are looking at total wipeout if they don't commit further - just ask any metorex shareholder 3)You still run the risk that some moeggoe got the bankable feasibility study and compitent persons report wrong - just ask any poor sod that followed first uranium (and the poor sods that are following the same crowd again on Gold One. 4) Do you know how long it takes for them to construct and get into production? Ages - just ask anyone hanging on to Platmin / Pallinghurst shares. 5) Lastly, and this is probably the most important - have these guys sorted out their leadership issues? Without a strong mine manager and CEO - who knows how well managed this company is going to be? In short - you can expect a delay in terms of years before they get to production and you can pretty much expect that you are going to have to invest further, whether you like it or not, when Wes goes back to shareholders for more money at some point in the not too distant future.
