RE:Waooo Undoubtedly, that's a significant discovery but that discovery includes over 40 gold ore veins found >2,000 meters underground... that's about 1.25 miles down. The initial studies have identified ~300 tons of gold in the core exploration area, with the potential for over 1,000 tons of gold reserves at a greater depth than 1.25 miles. Developing a gold mine that deep would obviously be a lengthy and complex process. Given the depth and scale of the Hunan discovery, I'm guessing it would take somewhere between 12 to 20 years for the full development process to take place.