No, Bob, I am NOT afraid of getting "into TOS trouble" as I'm NOT "advertising" a site. The URL under my name in the post you referenced was a discussion of the variety of miner headgear, initiated by Alan Whirlwind. My reply made no sense without a reference to the image contained in the URL for anyone reading either Alan's post or my response, ergo the URL under my name.
Furthermore, I'm posting URL to a front page of a 4 page MAGAZINE ARTICLE, for no charge, and curently still in the public libraries across this land. Not only is it reprinted with permission of the now in suspension publication annotated, it's a pretty fair picture of me.<g>
There is no mention of a book for sale in that magazine article, and no price of any product mentioned either. Nor are there any nosey personal information collecting cookies, nor any tracking device to ascertain how many even go and click to look or print out pictures to put in their silverware drawers to scare away the silverfish. <ggg> [Maybe too graphic for individual GOLDFISH aquarium owners tho']
SI Admin Jeff and I have had several LONG private eMail discussions, most civil, courteous and most informative about the perameters of what URLS are okay to post and what ones aren't; I'm fairly certain posting the MAGAZINE ARTICLE URL to that FOUR PAGE FEATURE magazine article, when appropriate to the discussion--and replying to Doug A K's misunderstanding of the abundance and value of above ground gold and its value to the over all supply/demand picture of mined gold available for consumption/distribution---I'm within the recent, privately "explained at length" guidelines by Jeff.
Heck, even Goldfield Minerals Service's reports in their annual report the fluctuating amount of scrap gold available to the market as part of the SUPPLY EQUATION.
Furthermore THIS GPM thread has discussed at length the disgorging of the Korean and Thai above ground gold and how it affected the supply picture a mere 18 months ago. Got big headlines, worldwide, remember?
And then there was the recent posting of the newswire story by Alex under the federal "Fair Use, etc.," guidelines re: the 2 million oz of recycled electronic gold soon to come out of Kuala Lampur's newly commissioned, government blessed gold production facility--a certified GOLD RECYCLING OPERATION. That's the equivalent of one of the big five mining concerns increasing current raw gold ore production by 50+ percent. THAT is a staggering reality facing goldbugs.
So, please continue to point folks to all the related gold topics and companies engaged in raw ore business.
And Ken Benes will continue to point out to folks the horrendous "mobilization" supply of Central Bank gold supply.
And I'll keep yammering about both the above ground DISCARDED gold supply that is also horrendous, and the virtue of individual mining and prospecting supply still abundantly available and more active than most GPM'ers can even guess is feeding the supply side in large quantities inspite of the environmentalists and the Clinton administration.
Then maybe we will be all able to get a clear picture of just "how much gold is out there" sloshing around and understand the current POG climate instead of the hysteria generated by the conspiracy "gaddabout" Don Quixote's.
Thank you for your post.
Ole card carrying goldbug if there ever was one /49r |
