Not challenging you, but where did you hear about BG fouling it up with the Chileans and the Japanese?

Hah!- ask Tracy. I've previously presented detailed specifics of these ill fated episodes- including the names of the companies involved- but, unless you were a very fast reader- you wouldn't have known- since Tracy had the posts taken down, claiming they spilled "privileged and insider information". The Chilean effort was a very long drawn out affair- with cross continent travel and negotiations- as you would expect with any world class copper producer- which failed and collapsed in the end- while the Japanese affair took just one night of reported insults to chase the Japanese back to the home island. Or you could just ask our heart surgeon neighbor about his assessment of BG. 

But- hopefully this is now all water under the bridge and maybe- just maybe there is now a path open to a deal. We can only hope.