Thanks Bruce, excellent upfront information especially for anyone in the markets and new to this gold bull. . I'am gonna cut & paste your post and add it to my thread's header of the Gold Price Monitor News as just more references to help anyone "just in" gold :o) . I was hoping the Northern Miner [Canadian] newspaper was the one Erica Chatters tells folks that he long ago was a delivery boy in the circa 1915s where he walked 15 miles in 15 feet of new snow to grade school after 13 hours delivering this newspaper to mining camps, but no, it was another newspaper that probably was sold to the United Stated parent company of those tabloids papers that have pictures of Aliens in the Arizona precious metals desert dirts Area 51 locations. Signature: EC<:-} (plus) Haileybury School of Mines '78 U of T, Lakehead U. Geology, Mining Tech, Geo Eng. 125 years various companies, mining superintendant, mill operator, drill spotter, prospector, miner, geophysical operator, assayer. President & Chief Operating Engineer, Wildcat Res. Ltd. Formerly... editor in chief of the Canadian Mining Newsletter, and prior to that life was the grandfather of DougAK. :o) doug |