To: Clappy who wrote (63382 ) 3/10/2001 1:52:39 PM From: IngotWeTrust Respond to of 116764 Hi, Clappy, don't mind if I do...the soapbox pulling bit...you should appreciate my "play on werds" there, seeings as how I talked about soaps in my most recent posting to this thread just a few clicks back from this'un. BTW, for the Record, I like you PEAKED better 'n my buddy, Richnorth's "piqued" prefered spellin'.... You see, ONE of my allllllllll time flav-or-RIGHT perfumes was a fragrance known as PIQUE....oh bout 25 years ago...my then smart-aleck spouse called it "PIG ue..." the thot'less jerk. ...t'was just one of the many faggots on the pyre that led me to slap him silly with a divorce settlement that went hugely in my favor a few years later<g....> PIG...ue my asp...<g> Okay, 'nuff of the anecdotes. Here's the scoop, Clappy, mah fren.... I've maintained on these cyber strands for lo' these many years, how my cost of recovering 24K gold from miasmatic amplitudes of discarded sources was less than $20 per oz. What I did NOT say was that most of THAT $20 cost was because of recovery costs by my refiner. Now that I've used this winter to become a student of the art of gold RECOVERY and REFINING, that cost is now a negative gold acquisiton cost, even with the chemicals, cupellation, crucibles, tongs, gloves, goggles, etc., factored in. AND I CANNOT BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THE THRILL OF SEEING THE GOLD WINK...and all of you who recover and refine your own gold know EXACTLY what stage of firing that represents, and known that that batch of cookin' is done. IF you'd like to see an image, I'll give you a peak at the last page of my book, in the colored illustrated section, where several of those little sweeties can be viewed in their... negative cost splendifferous glory!page.auctions.yahoo.com If it doesn't show up there, let me know, and I'll try to find some ISP server space to put that picture up on as I don't have it anywhere else at the moment. AREN'T THEY PURDY?????YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeehaw All the best... PS...can you believe the Q???? Closed on it's LOW, Friday... damn if I'm not gonna get me s'more down here...WOW... I never thought I'd see it below $55 again...is the world comin' to an end and someone forgot to ring the bell? All the best, Clappy... and keep in touch, my friend.gold_tutor ayup, that's smeeee....on SI, eBay, Yahoo, Stockhouse, Raging Bull AOL, and coming to another dozen sites near you in the days and months ahead<ggg>