RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: A Heart ofcan you name one in nl? its funny that nugget pond processed gold for a whole bunch of mines but all shipped out concentrate as a product and not gold bars, maybe the mines were deemed too small to warrent such expenses. personally i dont see any need for moa/mar to raise 100 million to go it alone and dilute a beautiful low o/s company when existing infrastructure is capable of doing the job, maybe you want to see a huge pp to kill the sp run? it would seem you know very little of nl gold mining history, procedures etc and would do well to do some dd on environmental issues, waste water discharges ,etc. where is water from an open pit operation (and there will be a lot just from rainfall alone) going to be treated? most rivers on the island were top high from may till early august, this aint no desert environment so water is a big concern if the rock isnt neutral. you talk of smelters like everone has one so can you name one on the island besides the old long harbour smelter, abandoned,decommissioned over 20 years ago? vale is building one as we speak near long harbour for many hundreds of millions, not to mention the extra environmental concerns that come with it . try using google earth to follow the immense expanses of water from moa's site to the ocean both down victoria river (exploits),red indian, to botwood and down victoria lake,granite lake,maelpaeg,ebbygunbaeg, down to the spillway at bay despoir. environmental issues will be key to this happening imho.