Legume, I was just looking at CLR. It did a scoping study and found that to build an open pit mine, it would cost about $1b, or about $800,000 for an underground mine. CLR's market cap is about $59m.
Is this around the general cost of building a mine? It makes AQA's multi-billion dollar project seem not too out of the realms of reality, if even the junior need to find $1b.