We have leaders in communist type countries in Asia and in Central and South America delaying their gold projects.  What in the Sam's hill are these people thinking?!  No one is an island.  Oil reserves will not help you when the entire world economy goes into the tank.  Who will buy your oil then?  Any further delays and you geniuses are going to miss the biggest bull market rally in gold of all time!!!  A mine takes at least three years to get into production even if all goes perfectly.  And gold does not just jump out of the ground, you have to extract it, and that takes many years of expensive and toilsome work.  Gold could easily reach a blow-off top in three years as economic circumstances are ripe for a catastrophe that could come literally at any second.  Gold could go to 5000 and then drop to levels below what we see today before you even get your first ounce out of the ground due to a worldwide depression!  And you sit idly by while resource stocks are being washed out?  What are you freaking waiting for!  Do you think that a leprechaun is just going to hand it to you at the end of a rainbow?  What will happen when the financing needed to start these projects dries up due to an economic catastrophe?  Many of the projects will never even get started if you do not get off your duffs and start making things happen!  Your inactivity is going to make the holders of gold very wealthy because the supply will be vastly reduced by your failure to act!  The Illuminati are going to clean you out!