spiny, you may have hit the nail on the head.

Quoting you spiny, "but does the merger of ONT-RMK create anything other than a larger Roxmark?

I have been reading the other major agoracom posters here and I think you collectively have a pretty clear-eyed view.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall but my guess is that the RMK-ONT thing had a lot to do with personalities. The mill is a factor, but overall the merger on its own is suboptimal. There may be a larger plan afoot and outside forces wanted to move those chess pieces out of the way. Neither RMK or ONT as is have the moxy to make what they have work.

These days I am more confident than ever than things will look quite different 1/2-1 year from now, for the better. I could care less about the other players themselves, but what I do care about is how we participate in KXL maneouvreing to maximum advantage. I do think the Beardmore-Geraldton gold camp is now a juggernaut that can't be stopped. The question is who has the road map and chooses the turns. Our stock price is excessively beat up and if we let that go on, that impairs us.

[drandes you made me laugh - sharp eyes on where the swallow quote came from - it takes a pro to notice ... :o) ]