RE:RE:Vetas and California Miners march Monday to BucaramangaAbsolutely, I think access to an underground operation is inevitable at minimum. Obviously we're dealing in Colombia here and anything can happen from a political perspective but like you and many others here have said, at the end of the day money talks and this deposit won't stay in the ground forever.
I'd like to believe that clarifiaction surrounding Paramo will come sometime this month or end of October at the latest. A lot of damage has already been done to Colombia's re*****tion from a foreign investment perspective and the longer the uncertainty remains the worse it will get. This isn't good for anyone, locals or us. But again, I'm simply speculating and anything can happen.
As for project advancement, I have no clue what to expect in terms of their plans, permitting or timeline. I've just been curious for a while now as to whether or not, if substantially all or most of the original deposit lands outside of Paramo, the open pit operation could be thrown back on the table. The impact to us investors would obviously be paramount. I thought I'd throw it out there to see what some others, such as yourself, thought about it to see if I'm completely out to lunch on my own in thinking its a possibility. Given the change in course to an underground operation was an attempt address environmental concerns and it did little to nothing to advance the project, I don't see why they wouldn't take a second look at the operation and their options once Paramo is clearly defined...
BH