Gold Page #3

7.

STANTON:

Mr. Wells, I’m Lloyd Stanton. My

colleague Henry Andrews.

Wells puts on a smile and shakes hands.

WELLS:

Good to meet you.

STANTON:

Come on back.

INT. COLEMAN & MEAD CAPITAL GROUP - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY

Stanton and Andrews take seats at one end of the conference

table. Wells stands uncomfortably alone at the other end.

STANTON:

What can we do for you?

WELLS:

Aren’t we waiting for Clive?

STANTON:

Mr. Coleman is tied up in a meeting.

WELLS:

No offense boys, but I was supposed to

be meeting with Clive.

STANTON:

None taken. But, if you were

supposed to be meeting with Clive

you’d be meeting with Clive.

That stung. Wells takes just a moment to recover. Sits. Slaps

a smile on his face and slides documents across the table.

WELLS:

We’re developing some very exciting

properties that are spot-on for your

investor profile: low buy-in with a

sizable upside and the beautiful part

is they’re all only twelve to eighteen

months to cash positive.

Stanton and Andrews listen impassively, scanning the documents.

ANDREWS:

Manitoba?

WELLS:

We picked up an option on a skipped

claim at auction.

8.

ANDREWS:

It’s a ninety day option.

WELLS:

Yes, the window is narrow, but there’s

an excellent shale formation that...

STANTON:

...Natural Gas? Environmental

impact’s gonna be a b*tch. I don’t

like the liability. What’s next?

He dismissively flips the page, leaving Wells to quickly

shift gears.

WELLS:

Eastern Utah. We’re sitting on a nice

land-lease opportunity. The

overburden is borax rich so there’s an

immediate revenue source, but the real

prize is in the granite under-shelf.

Our studies point to rich chromium and

nickel deposits.

ANDREWS:

There’s a pretty long chain of title

on this claim. No payouts. What

makes you think you’re gonna be

luckier than all these others?

WELLS:

All under capitalized. Never got past

development, none of them.

STANTON:

Under capitalized? I’m not sure under

capitalized does your situation

justice.

Wells swallows down another helping of pride and pushes on.

WELLS:

We’ve hit a down turn, yes, true

enough, but...

STANTON:

...Mr. Wells, Washoe has a practical

value hovering just above zero. Your

debt load is untenable and you come to

us with raw land, no infrastructure,

no fungible assets. You can’t possibly

expect us to underwrite this.

9.

WELLS:

I’m talking about a small offering

here. If you’ll just look at the geo

you’ll see what I see, which is money.

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