Mark went to Australia on a business trip, most likely?There are several speculations (e.g., on ceo.ca) on Mark Selby's sudden decision to skip the Vancouver Conference to go to Australia, including:
1. to show new board member around the mine;
2. family emergecy. Family members living in Australia?
3. show the mine to potential buyer
4. urgent business at the the mine...Kevin Small wanted to show MS another "living room"?, or some bonanza intersections from the 40,000m drilling program?
The first two don't seem to have much support.
- The new board member could be shown around by Kevin Small, the local mine boss and VP Exploration. This new BoD member, Paul Huet, is a technical guy and he heads the Technical Committee. The other new fellow is a Board Observer, also in the Technical Committee. KS should be able to handle this. Unless it is combined with something new that MS need to see with his own eyes (item 3 could be combined with item 4)
- There is a picture of MS with wife, son, parents and sisters in the link below. The picture was taken at the recent display of the specimens at the ROM in Toronto. Ii's a guess that his family members are living in Toronto. No proof whatsoever, just a pure guess. (not worth flying folks over from Austarlia to see those specimens, even with free wine).
https://republicofmining.com/2018/12/12/my-hands-are-trembling-andrew-bell-holds-royal-nickels-us16000-rock-of-gold-business-network-news-december-11-2018/
- That leaves the last item as something that would be worth spending more than a day flying all the way from Canada to Perth, then by car or helicopter to the mine. Hence my guess (again, just a guess) would be that it's something of significance that Kelvin wanted to show MS.
Some important pieces of info would be: where is Kelvin.? Also, where is Eric Sprott? He was at the mine sometimes back, but is there anything else that he would need to see. After all, he just spent a millions on RNX and he's the chairman of KL (he just lightened his KL stake, just a little bit, for buying more RNX?)
Just trying to connect the dots, folks. More dots to throw on the table?
GH11
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