"Everybody gets excited when BobFriedland is pumping some stock, whether it makes sense or not, " says Ryan Bennett, principal at Resource Capital Funds, a Denver private equity group, who just returned from Mongolia.
That was in 1994, when Friedland was best known by critics as "Toxic Bob, " after another of his ventures, Galactic Resources, tried to develop a gold mine near Summitville, Colorado using heap leaching, an extraction process that dips ore in cyanide to extract gold.
That was in 1994, when Friedland was best known by critics as "Toxic Bob, " after another of his ventures, Galactic Resources, tried to develop a gold mine near Summitville, Colo. using heap leaching, an extraction process that dips ore in cyanide to extract gold.