and of course we have a great asset as per this post on the other board:

How much do you realy know about the Owyhee mountains?
How about War Eagle Mountian? Have you ever been there? Know anyone that has? I have been on the mountain, have spent 100's of hours out there colecting minerals and gems, Iknow several people that have mine cliams on the mountain and have seen gold and silver in person. SFMI, might be getting off to a slow start but that is not uncommon. Come on out to Idaho and I will be happy to take you on a trip to the mountain so that you will have intellegent information to talk about instead of making up wise cracks.
Knowing the ionformation that I do about the area from personnal experience I believe that SFMI has a very good chance to make a go of it, I have been wathching their progress in person and see the work going on. What do you base your information on?