RE:RE:Quakes - Put your money where your mouth is!
Bluesteele, you state "Hopefully R600W will get bigger and mitigate the massive problem they have with putting a berm across Paterson Lake." ............But I think you over play the challenges, look at Diavik diamond mine, it had a deeper lake, a thick layer of silt, then a layer of glacial till followed by rock with a lot of cracks in it. To top it off it is in the middle of nowhere in the frozen Arctic and all supplies had to be hauled in over an ice road that had to be rebuilt every year and had about a 3 month operating season. Now that is what I call a massive challenge. The Diavik mine and all facilities ended up costing about $1.5 billion, no small sum, but worth it, and the Diavik ore was worth about half the value per tonne as the FCU ore. So here we have FCU, also a lake, but shallower, no silt to speak of, glacial till and then bedrock, an all season road near by, better operating weather and so all around lower costs than Diavik. If the engineers could do Diavik, which produced massive profits in the end, then I think the FCU issue is a challenge, but hardly a "massive problem". As for R600W, a nice start, but I guarantee that at the end of the day, the entire ore body is going to get mined and at a huge profit to somebody.