Sacks I inboxed you with an idea regarding Stillwater Mining and Marathon, look at my post on the MOZ board today.
It is not so far fetched when you see the Stillwater news today. Both MOZ and MOA could gain from a joint venture similar to what was announced today by Stillwater Mining. Stillwater is a past acquirer of Marathon Platinum Corp and is also a major shareholder of Marathon Gold Corp. Stillwater is a Platinum Producer and has been trying to diversify into other metals, copper and perhaps they may have an interest in gold. No problem for them to refine it.
This type of joint venture is posible and not uncommon as you see where one company will off take all the metals under the agreement.