YNG was advertising March 9, 2012 for a head geologist to oversee the Ketza camp. They were also advertising for mechanics, security guards and maintenance people a month ago. The camp is new as of last fall, 2011, and can hold about 50 men.
It's also advertised as being dry, the contemporary method of maintaining steady production while minimizing drama in the bunkhouse. It'll make for less interesting yarns to tell your grandkids than how bunkhouse life was in the old days, but definitely a better work environment. It's a progressive move to minimize rougher personalities on site.
At any rate, it's ready to roll.
I know it's been said that Jerritt Canyon is the bread and butter, but I have a sneaky hunch that Ketza is the ace in the hole that elevates YNG to a "buy and hold" from a speculative mining "play."
Yes, I realize that hunches grow in bunches and monkeys eat them, blah, blah, blah, but all the same I'm looking forward to the NI 43-101 technical reports, and the other reports coming in April.
Looking at today's data - not the fumbling of the past management regime - it's hard not to feel we're on the cusp of something much bigger. I'm excited but wary: Many things have to go right. I can't put all my eggs in one basket either, no matter how close we are to Easter.