RE: Barrick drills on the Mill Canyon border It may be speculation on your part, but it raises all sorts of possibilities. If Mill is as valuable as the Barrick Geo suggests then it brings them into the Victoria picture not only as a buyer of the Mill Canyon property but why not a buyer or partner in the Eagle/Dublin Gulch project.
This could set up a bidding contest between Barrick and Kinross. It may be why the Victoria people seem so confident. Their behavior in loading up on shares and the tone of their recent remarks sure smells like a player holding a hand full of Aces. Barrick would be the elephant in the room in the contest but Kinross being involved should insure a reasonably fair deal.
Things should get interesting real soon. The rapid sale of the Relief and Cove properties indicates things are moving quickly.