The biggest thing that PQ could give away to greatly improve the chances of financing and any terms would be his (and his family's) positions in the company. That includes position in both senses of the word- his and the family's jobs and at least a part of his position in terms of amount of shares. Too many of those shares were awarded as part of ridiculous compensation packages (and remember, they double dip with both companies with shares coming from SFMI to pay for both salaries). In fact, those overly "generous" pay packages are a large part of the reason the share price is so low- which in turn increases the number of shares he gets to pay his salary. As far as the jobs he and his family hold, there is no question that they could hire better and more experienced people from the mining industry for much less than PQ and family are getting (remember, add up both SFMI and GHDC salaries). RS if I remember correctly was getting about a third of what PQ makes, and took it in shares. That is the trick, though, to find someone who will work for shares in order to conserve cash.

You can imagine that anyone considering financing SFMI would be much more likely to do so if SFMI had competent, experienced management and an improved share structure.