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Working abroad may sound exciting and almost exotic, but as many of you know, it can be a total nightmare filled with hostility, sickness, and worst of all, false promises and cost overruns.
Nevertheless, Canadian companies continue to look offshore for their futures and fortunes but more often than not, they come home with their hopes shattered and few answers for their investors as to why things didn’t turn out as planned.
There’s no question that venturing offshore has a mystique about it that drives miners to new frontiers, but I just
wish many of those adventurers would give Canada a second look before investing their time and, moreover, their stakeholders’ money in foreign projects.
I know that some of the properties being explored or developed offshore hold outstanding prospects for Canadians in terms
of minerals, but on the downside, what about where they’re located and even worse, what about the odds of coming home with
a buck or two?
Even some major companies with seemingly unlimited financial and topnotch managerial resources are looking pretty sheepish lately as they admit to the fact that a million dollars worth of gold is going to cost a million-and-one dollars to produce.