RE: cmj venCMJ & VEN are very different companies. Old adage "never bet on the project, allways bet on the management" applies here, and I talked with the Management in SF at the Hard Assets Conf.
VEN is a one horse show. Nice horse, but only one in the stable. CMJ has a management team of veteran explorers with decades of experience in Colombai and around the world. This managment team has put together a stable of properties (PLURAL) in key mining areas in Colombia base on years of experience.
Right now their Rio Negro project seems to be in the lime light but do some dd on their website and you will see it's only one of several good projects CMJ has in its stable. El Dovio has a .3 opt Au equivalent if you do the math and they are hardly even talking about it. NUS is within throwing distance from B2Gold's Gramalote and Trinidad deposits with combined resources of 3.25 million ounces, and their flag ship property Yarumalito seems to be a quality gold porphyry target (which they are going to start drilling soon) without the fragmented ownership issues of Marmato Mountain or the $70 million purchase price.
CMJ seems like a good value.