Plan BLet's play devils advocat. What if plan A does not work if he does not find enough high grade gold @ south Con to buy the mine. I think that has 25% odds at this point. Just a guess.
Plan B would look something like this.
Gerald plans to built a smaller mill north of town producing 100k ounces. That would give him a 12 year mine life with the current ounces in the ground. At the same time we keep looking for more high grade deposits north of town within 25 miles of the plant. That would still get us a 500 million dollar company perhaps much more if he finds more ounces. Not bad for a 40 million dollar marketcap today.