"Very well," Ted replied. "Don't know how much you know about this business so stop me if you've heard it. We couldn't buy the land in our own names, so I used contacts to se up a company in Sierra Leone and they have negotiated on our behalf. Everything has gone well. Bribes went to the right people and the real estate has changed hands. More importantly it was nodded through, no survey or anything. Once the infrastructure is in place we can - - whoa! what a surprise! - discover the - um - goods, and start to exploit it. There are other goodies too, but it's the pitchblende that will be the cherry."