RE:RED EAGLE MINING - CEO ON PODCAST TALKS ABOUT COLOMBIA n excerpt from what Ian Slater stated. The below is a quote.
Unfortunately, Ventana was an amazing example, but it’s private now, so people don’t hear about it. But they’re also working hard up in California. So if you know the background is, Batista bought it, and then you had it as collateral, so Mubadala from UAE own it now, and they’re working. So if I was a public company, that would be in the headlines. And people forget, too, that AngloGold was able to permit Gramalote, next to us, and they permitted it for an open pit, actually. So really the only one that was said no to was Greystar, but they wanted to build an open pit in the watershed, so it wouldn’t have been permitted in Canada, either.