Q: what are your 2 favorite mid cap gold companies for risk and growth as of today.awhile back you gave me aris which i own as well as barrick and iamgold.dave

Q: I have done a little bit of work on Orla Mining. It came on my radar when I saw their heaps of paydirt at the Camino Rojo mine in Zacatecas, Mexico (You can see the operation from the highway that connects Saltillo with the city of Zacatecas). That mine seems to have very low operating costs and even a partial pitwall collapse last year did not seem to hurt ORLA too much. What I didn't know is that they bought the Musselwhite Gold mine north of Thunder Bay from Newmont. Apparently Newmont wasn't interested in Musselwhite (too small for them) so there was very little capital spent at that mine. Orla saw potential at Musselwhite, bought the mine and started to invest. The processing plant at Musselwhite was running way below name plate capacity due to a lack of mined ore Orla has located more ore and has been using the mill at a much higher capacity and low and behold they are making money. To me that demonstrated a smart management team. And since Orla is now a two mine miner (with one mine in Canada and the other in Mexico) I am considering a position in ORLA. But what is your opinion of Orla and if you were to do a deeper dive on Orla what would you be looking for/at?

Q: What is your opinion and valuation on this? Good time to buy it vs other mid caps because it may be temporarily discounted due to 2 large investors recently selling their positions or do you feel thats a vote of no confidence in their prospects going forward. Less likely to be taken over vs. Newmont and Agnico just raising funds for other purposes.