With odds of only one in 3,000 discoveries leading to mine development, and only 10 percent of the world's gold deposits containing enough gold to mine, exploration can be tedious and expensive. For every one successful gold mining venture; there are at least 8 that failed. Greedy company owners led innocent investors to lose hundreds of millions every year believing in the gold rush
Another say this- Brent Cook: Mining is a tough business-a very tough business. So many things can go wrong even if the company did everything right. On the exploration side, probably 95% of the junior companies whose share prices start moving up the discovery curve finish down at the bottom of that chart. Very few actually end up with something of any real economic significance.
Seems to me until you reach the point of doing a fesability study to find out if it is worth mining there's not much but speculation, hopes, and dreams to go on.
