To: TobagoJack who wrote (96258 ) 11/4/2012 5:47:11 PM From: Maurice Winn 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 219451 You can hire lots of Kiwi miners at low prices. They are fleeing the depredations of socialist "Nirvana" and kleptocratic "Utopia" where everything is free. They are heading to Oz in droves. Christchurch falling down also encouraged a lot more to leave "the shaky isles" for Oz. It's odd - I studied civil engineering which included said digging, drilling, trucking, pipes, not to mention minerals, geomorphology, and topics related to what you are doing, but achieved a fail in our compulsory electrical engineering paper. So I abandoned both for a couple of decades then switched to electrical engineering on steroids via Qualcomm, Globalstar and now Zenbu. Meanwhile, you abandoned electrical and switched to civil engineering. Now I have switched again, to milk processing, with signatures in progress as we speak, with Hong Kong cashed up expansionary New World Order, Recovered Sovereign, spreading its wings with megatons of money and Made in China marketing. One must choose wisely when young, and choose again sensibly when mature, and once more when older, switching quickly when times change, and again no doubt when aged. Meanwhile, the solar cycle continues and my 2008 prediction is on the money with the peak likely to be about 70. My prediction preceded the official experts who apparently had no idea. I note my gold sooth of nearly 2 years ago for 31 December 2012 is on the money, $1727, [as were my sooths for the previous three 31 December dates]. Recommendation - buy 10,000 hectares of too-dry land surrounding your prospects before 2020 because such warmer climate will be far preferable to the deeply accumulating snow in northern Europe and chilling Mongolia/northern China. I am interested in buying a share of it. Mqurice (Updated 2012/11/02) Click on image for larger version.
The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 73 in the Fall of 2013. The smoothed sunspot number (for 2012/02) is already nearly 67 due to the strong peak in late 2011 so the official maximum will be at least this high. We are currently well over three years into Cycle 24. The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906