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Gold/Mining/Energy : Silver prices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Claude Cormier who wrote (2432)	1/20/2000 12:20:00 PM
From: Richard Mazzarella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8010

Claude, thanks again for the information. Did you see that news bit about germanium minimizing the tarnishing of silver? I think that if results are as reported, the demand for silver could go crazy. What do you think?

To: Claude Cormier who wrote (2432)	1/20/2000 1:37:00 PM
From: goldsheet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8010

Yes. Of course, there are other plays like SIL, CDE, HL and SSC... I follow them but don't like them as much. HL is only 25% silver. CDE is OK, but still only 55-60% silver. Agree with your concern that HL and CDE are not the best ways to play silver. I did a little calculation based on 1999 AU/AG production at current prices, and both were over 50% revenues from silver (HL>CDE): Price Hecla Value Percent CDE Value Percent ----------- ------------------- -------------------- AU 289.400 0.097 28.2 41.4% 0.157 45.4 48.4% AG 5.200 7.667 39.9 58.6% 9.304 48.4 51.6% ----------- ------------------- -------------------- Total $us68.1 $us93.8 GOLDSHEET Silver Page goldsheet.simplenet.com

To: Claude Cormier who wrote (2432)	1/20/2000 1:56:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8010

CDE is OK, but still only 55-60% silver. Did they ever get all that litigation cleared up? They had shareholder suits about the mine they had to write off and the government environmental suit...

To: Claude Cormier who wrote (2432)	1/20/2000 9:42:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8010

<<CDE is OK, but still only 55-60% silver.>> I thought with recent acquitions & shut downs, they were closer to 70%, BWDIK? & according to last thing from the HL I thought they were now around 30-35%. It should be noted SSC picked up some rather nice older properties in Colorado of late, making thier future a bit less dependent on Pirquitas, though I agree, their situation could be FAR better. Shouldn't it also be mentioned the amount of silver in some (under conventional wisdom)understood to be "gold plays" - HM & ECO? HM best Nevada gold property also has a fair amount of silver same as ECO.