Sturges Karban, founder and CEO of Thorin Resources, the new owner of the Revenue-Virginius Mine, sits for a portrait at the mine’s Ouray warehouse in September. Thorin purchased the Revenue-Virginius at auction for $1.8 million, six years after bringing the nearby Camp Bird gold mine out of bankruptcy. Karban said his intention is to put both mines back into operation, but it remains to be seen when that might be happen and what it'll look like. Daniel Schmidt — Ouray County Plaindealer