RE:TxR - thanks for your contributions In the early fall of 2018 Eric Sprott chartered an aircraft and flew Tony Makuch, President of Kirkland Lake Gold, Greg Gibson and Quinton Hennigh with him to Australia. On October 3rd of 2018 Eric spoke at a mining conference in Melbourne with Makuch, Gibson and Hennigh in the front row. Eric credited Quinton Hennigh with his technical success of the development of the ultra-high grade Swan deposit at Fosterville and with pushing Eric to merger Kirkland Lake with Newmarket. Gibson and Makuch were against the merger.
That hurt Makuch’s feelings. Recently in the month or two before Novo actually began gold production in February at their Beatons Creek project in WA, Kirkland Lake dumped all their Novo shares just to spite Quinton. Anyone familiar with the Lassonde Curve will understand that that is the perfect time to be buying shares in a company at the least risk, not selling. But Kirkland Lake sold