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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Earlie who wrote (68134)	11/24/2009 6:05:40 PM
From: E. Charters	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78405

I don't believe it. All that fault and it's under low grade farmland. You know how to tell if its surplus uneconomic farmland? If the crops and the farm machinery burns, its surplus. Besides if someone, god forbid, did that, the farmer's insurance would cover it. Someone would be doing them a favour. The buyout of the land would be cheap then. Perhaps they would even be for it. Gold mining is more important, I think even Greenpeace would agree. It is high time those polluting ecologically destructive farmers were brought to task for pushing out all the native species and shooting so called pest animals. They were there first. Ever see a gold miner shoot a crow, a hawk or a groundhog? Poison a defenseless rat or mouse? Poison a water course with cattle manure, or put insecticide in your food? No. And you won't either. Miners are ecologically correct. They believe in living with nature and letting live. Holes in the ground? Well they could be bat caves, or if open pit, fish nurseries afterward. Waste dumps and tailings ponds? Tree parks. Carbon credit sequestraton areas. The gold we pry out of the rocks itself? Makes more reliable computers for medical research centers. Now, I am not applying for Sainthood on the behalf of miners. I saw one drop a chewing gum wrapper on the street other day. Made my blood boil. All that valuable tinfoil and he was just chucking it. The nerve. Some people act like there was nothing at stake in the world today. Everybody knows we are on the brink of some kind of crisis and total disaster on a constant basis. We can't ever let up. You shouldn't say there was an old mine there. Do you know that? Were you there at the time? Ever see the gold? No. Well then you don't know. Better to say you found a shaft and don't know what they got out, but it seems prehistoric. Perhaps Spanish. But you did find 20 ounces per ton in a grab sample. I don't think the Barrick mine nearby is significant. They could be working on something totally different. Besides if this were so good, Barrick would have got it already. I don't think the fact the the geologist love it is something you should be noising around. Geologists work for every mining company. They all like rocks. They are even thankful they have jobs these days. Besides I have never heard of them finding a mine that a prospector hadn't staked first. All they seem to know is how to go to places where somebody already found a mine. They seem bone lazy to me. Perhaps we had better ask the guy who was there first, like maybe some local car jockey who was on vacation collecting cactus and just happened to find the old hole in the ground and something shiny nearby. Luck beats geoscience any day. As Napoleon said, you can always beat a skillful general, but never a lucky one. You did not say how hard the gold is to get out of the rock. It should be darn hard for a good mine. Look at Mesquite and Angostura, Brewery Creek and Pebble. No sure fire way to get all the gold out that is obvious, and they either got into production or are going strong as promotions 15 years later. And no political troubles? Well that's bad. It can't be a big mine if someone doesn't want to shut it down. Don't you have any protesting environmental groups? Always seems to add 25% to the share price. Has to be big if it is an ecological disaster in the making. When they tell you it's small ask them how many holes they have drilled in it. Do you know it won't get bigger the more you drill? Well do you? Well how does he? Simple, you told him. You had your X-Ray Future Mine Goggles on at that moment. In fact you have no idea how big it can get. Or how small. That is why they call it exploration. It's all in how you tell the story. If they say it's small, just look blank at them and say, "Maybe. We don't know how small it's going to get yet." "If we drill it like Barrick did then it may get smaller and smaller with each drill hole until the shaft disappears." Never, never talk about the mine next door. Even if they ask you if there are any big mines next door. Big mines next door are irrelevant. Besides the average person, if they are thinking like that, assumes Barrick would have staked the whole state or bought everyone out if there were any more mines in that state. They have what are called big company X-Ray eyes. And the broker who wants a mine next door obviously never owned one and tried to sell it. As he would then of course get the answer, "Why doesn't the mine next door buy it?" Sheesh! You talk to idiots all day and you become one. EC<:-}