I can confirm the Embry- Norge tete-a-tete after his speech and will  relate why I think it was a genuine response rather than a canned response later, given the context of the situation.

Earlier in his speech, he mentioned that gold companies need to go further underground and mine in friendly jurisdictions, which is exactly the VIT story.

This was a contrast to the day before when I stepped up to the mike to ask about Victoria in front of a panel of Grandich, Coffin, Kaiser ,Taylor, Letourneau and 1000s in the audience and I got no response. The panel also had no response to 9-10 other stock queries. What does that tell you? There are pros and then there are others who are only slightly above us here in terms of knowledge about gold co's, yet are held up as gurus.