Here is my problem.
I started my own company in 1988; it was fairly high tech and it had a huge 'pull' market from the consumer - from retail 'high end' outlets to clubs, like Staples.
I had 2 partners and we funded it from the ground up. We had follow up products but our main product sold from 4K to 5K units per month. We were completely operational with 36 employees from marketing, sales, down to the folks who folded cardboard boxes.
When Wal Mart ordered 14K of my product for delivery in 2 weeks, the show was over. We didn't have the cash flow, and couldn't mortgage enough property to make that happen. We sold the business in 1993.
My point is, I know how to run a business.
Rich had no right to go build a mill near a mineral rich looking big rock, when he had never run a mill. 3 years ago he made claims about the Don Ramon mill that he had no right to make. He had no right to drum up German interest 3 separate times, and make claims to the market, to investors, and to Glencore. He simply didn't know what he was doing.
I've read the La Currita "43-101" report front to back. AMRS (pre-Tara) was going to spend money on that mill to get it up and running in his JV model. At least it had some drillings to show where ore was. Now it's in the neighborhood of a potential PZG/CDE bonanza.
Rich could have cut his teeth (with an investment) running a mill that had been run before; instead, he had to build a brand new mill. And now it doesn't run either.
My problem is Rich goes from one bad decision to another - I had experience in design, manufacturing, and accounting when I ran my business. Rich looks like a complete Rube in mining. And, his word is no good; not that he doesn't believe it. It just keeps changing and the cult keeps following.
Tara has been dead money in a Junior Miner bonanza atmosphere worldwide, and I resent it.
Rant over.
Have a nice day.
