To: jackjc who wrote (3964 ) 12/31/2005 7:10:10 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78408 You mentioned these points before, and i'd forgotten ... yes, some sour grapes there no doubt, carried to a degree that leaves common sense way behind .... Bailey sounds hard to deal with, wants too much maybe, or is unreasonably inflexible on structure of a deal, something like that eh ... Dolores has been pretty much ready for mining for so many years, still mfl is left sitting ... a lot of us used to see bay, fgx, and mfl as all sister comparables, the first two proceeded and mfl has not, you have to wonder why People were making so much of problems with the ejido at Mulatos, plus access to water, i never thought either of these would slow things down for long, just from an overall look at the situation, folks needed the work and there weren't many objectors among the ejiditarios, and while there wasn't a great surplus of water around, there was enough for a mine if used intelligently ... can't recall now if these were among Bailey's objections, but others brought them up during the time Alamos was in limbo there Grayd just seemed like such a sure thing to me, back there in the .teens, two years or so ago it had made .46, figured for fairly certain it would do that again .... haven't made a serious study of anything lately, so don't have that degree of feeling about any others .... although, ggc is starting to look pretty good ... it's not still in a sleepytime trough, which is how i like them for entry, but it's reminding me of the oldtime ways ... like aur.to in the years before Louvicourt, they used to do the same, mine away in a pretty smart fashion and spend the bucks on exploration in a prudent manner that proved successful There is so much to catch up on here, i haven't been around for months, got a kid and a fulltime job now ... not so much discretionary cash lately either, everything is pretty planned out for the near term, that's part of it ... still like to play at it though ... what would your top few picks be at this point, jack? ... one of my old favourites that i still watch is X-Cal xcl.to, some of its potential could be arguably reduced due to the new arrangement, still i'd be very surprised if it didn't double or better within the next year, at least from my acb of .20ish