RE:RE:RE:Victoria Gold LandslideI'm with you, Sooner. In successive years, Yukon has had:
- Alexco Resources unable to manage Keno Hill, and taken under by Hecla,
- Pembridge unable to manage Minto, and abandonded site,
- Now Victoria, with Eagle.
I'm willing to cede this is more likely to be a natural disaster, but similar instances of companies with either no resources to manage an operation, or single asset operators with zero margin of error.
Catch 22: Rio presumably wants it permitted, Regulators might want guarantee build will be done by someone with expertise/resources/pockets to do so. Say what you will about Rio, but they DO build.
I'm mentally preparing for permitting to stretch an additional year, minimum. Whether we're double checking our design vs. Victoria's, and we submit Q1 2025, or the YESAB takes their sweet time reviewing while review of what happened there unfolds.