Guranteed, something is happening that we will probably never know the real extent until the history books are written.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012486

"Believing there was more, untapped gold in veins yet to be discovered at Red Lake, McEwen used Goldcorp, which he controlled following his father's death, to bid for Dickenson. But he had competition: the savvy Ned Goodman, a rival mining industry investor, now CEO of Dundee Bancorp Inc. An intense takeover battle ensued. Goodman sought a court injunction against McEwen but, with one day to go before the Goldcorp offer expired, an Ontario judge threw Goodman's case out. In April 1989, McEwen gained control of Dickenson and its Red Lake gold mine - and his problems had just begun.

Before he could search for new veins at Red Lake, McEwen needed to transform Goldcorp, then a holding company, into an operating company. The reorganization would solve two problems: the mine desperately needed an infusion of cash, which the holding company had, but couldn't flip out of its coffers into a subsidiary's. And Goldcorp's share price was suffering from a "holding company discount." A newly minted operating company would both "turbo-charge" Goldcorp's shares, McEwen believed, and allow it to funnel capital into the mine. But he was surrounded by doubters, among them his own family members. "There were two years where our annual meetings were like theatre. I could have sold tickets," he says. "That's when I went out to get the tallest, meanest-looking lawyers I could find."