RE:this is what i read ... You moron, you got it totally wrong.
This move is the best move that Generation management could have done to build Marathon with as little dilution as possible. Shareholders will get paid for all that copper, just as they will be paid for all the gold that will flow to Wheaton. Copper and gold and ot even on the main buffet table, they are just an appetizer.
Marathon is primarily a RARE palladium mine, not a major copper or gold deposit.
There just happens to be enough copper and gold amonst a mix of different payable metals to pay for the entire mine to be built.
BTW, what's you new alias on SH, I see that you are still using the site and retired your old @schoolfilmsmartphones troll account.