RE: What Happened to Cline Mining?? Alot of bull going around with this management. If I would tell you why I got invested in this company, you would not believe it. I cannot get into details. This company took a complete 180 from what was expected. It's stories like these that makes you stay away from mining companies. Whatever happened to those 74,000 tons in inventory? No one wants to deal with Bates, that is evident.