RE:RE:RE:RE:3.48 ?Yup. I'm that old too. That's one of the reasons BTO bought sbb. Having 100% in any country below tier 1, is just way too risky. Could BTO lose Mali? It could. That's in the stock price already. Will it be stolen for nothing and forever? Doubtful. Look how far Venezuela has fallen by stealing assets and kicking out foreigners. And it is/was a country with much natural wealth. From tier1/tier2 to the bottom of a third world disaster. Mali isnt that much better than 3rd world to start with. An economic collapse wouldn't take much and the social political reaction would be near instant and severe. So I'm a little more optimistic for mali than Venezuela. Most if not all African leaders have learned the hard way from history not to shoot themselves in the foot by extreme nationalist economic policy. Even Panama is slowly figuring out what a mistake they've made with first quantum. It's not just the country's largest source of gdp, shutting it down shuts off all foreign capital for everything. Not just gigantic copper mines. I wouldn't buy a condo in Panama if it was a quarter the price of Costa Rica. Same will happen to Mali and not even local African capital will be attracted to Mali for any project, mining or not. Rebels may be tempted to welcome Russian "advisors" to seize power but they always figure out, once they takeover, they are worse pillagers and plunderers than any schmucks from Canada. And they are much harder to get rid of.