RE:If!Sounds like you are making excuses that everything was outside management's control. The key market indices had banner years, meaning that money was flowing into quality investments. Taht's the problem, we are not one of them. If we want to make excuses for all the things that happened "to us" then the least we should be able to say is that management had adopted a strategy where it is a passive player as opposed to being an active player. It made decisions that made them too dependent on everything else around them. They have to take the bull by the horn now and start creating their own luck. Get the financing with the view of progressing the claims where we have majority ownership and control. Let the dependency on others be a side show so that we can at least progress where we can!