The early vision of Hugh Wynn and Co. and most people who survived to be on his board after the first year is to mine and pay out gold dividends, just as your famed silver miner did. Unfortunately in today's world it is not as easy as it was to get to a poasition where the gold does not have to be sold to generate cash to drill, and develop several mines. Narrow veins require a huge amount of development to be able to get large tonnage on a regular basis and after 3 years that is happening in two mines. The 3rd has been put into care and maintenance until they can go back in and change from long hole to cut and fill method because of lower grades than expected. I personally don't think a buyout is in the best interests of the shareholders because there is a limit to the premium we would get and the market cap is too big now for much of a bidding war. The only thing that might change that is large intersections of + 1oz per ton core in the deeps to raise the grades high enough to make the deep mining as profitable as the upper hinges. JMHO