RE:RE:Most Likely Scenario: No Plan for a Buyout Don't know how that would work out for RF. Like everyone here, he also has the option to buy or sell. He never wanted to be a mine operator before. Don't see a Western Company making an offer (though they would consider a Platreef spinoff); DRC has too much baggage -- strategic metal royalty and supertax if metal price increases in value, 100% repatriation of earnings back to DRC, a new mining law that supercedes preexisting signed agreements. Western miners won't put up with that. There are plenty other jurisdictions out there. That only leaves Chinese state miners, who have both the economy of scale and flexibility to operate in a difficult jurisdiction.