What's to stop a CEO in his tracks From moving ahead with a gold exploration venture when statistically faced with 1 in 10 projects that do get to the drilling stage : Ok ditto-done here.
Where 1 in 1000 unearth economically viable to mine gold and or gold eq deposits: Tudor Gold not among them.
Where less than 1 in 10000 of them ever become mines.
Those that do ... take on average, 15 years of combined associated successfully completed undertakings to bring a mine to production.
What's to stop an operator faced with those odds from going all in?
Very little knowing a great number of investors know the game to be played which is ground mostly in hype where they can get in early and ride a company stock up on good assays in themselves.
The overwhelming majority of company CEO's never reach that elusive pinnacle of success but make a good living off the process from beginning to end before moving on to another.
When a project reaches the bogged down stage Tudor Gold has now come to ... with financing having dried up for the very reason the difficulty to mine here has become reality, placing TUD somewhere within that less than 1 in 10000 camp of explorers that could possibly develop a mine and ever reach production ... with the high risk alone, those in the know generally vacate to greener pastures leaving the longs who have supported the company and will all the way down far behind.
Yes ... its the many longs, that average investor ... who make a 1 in 10000 chance doable for CEO's and early on investors to make a living from and a good buck initially, motivating them forward win or lose in attempting to prove up an economically mineable deposit throughout the exploration process .
Failing to prove up a viable resource they know is more likely than not from the getgo unbeknownst to the suckers who become die hard longs ... will never stop them out from going ahead with these undertakings.
It would only take a shortage of die hard long investors to drive the stock up and sustain a level of confidence in the sp to ever prevent them from this means of theirs of making a living.
And so, it goes and it goes ...
Until it all breaks down and when it does as its doing now at Tudor Gold, when the gamble has played itself out - walking away more often than not from a gold discovery no matter how many ounces have been proven up, low grade deep and uneconomical to mine, if they aren't economical to mine as is the main reason stopping out the PEA study from continuation here - then best decisions at times like these are made where the potential profit doesn't justify the huge allocation of resources - then so leaving it behind really does become the right move to make before the company loses further traction.