And that includes the miners who can be pressured enough.
I said a few years ago that you had to watch the investments into Novagold. The Alasks deposit is huge.
The old money wants it all. Drive the juniors into penny stocks. Financing is impossible, Drive HUI down. Make all the smaller companies spend money in discovery/development....then scoop them up when they drive everything into penny stock price and scoop them up.
END GAME; own it all. In ground and above ground; Simple really.