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Gold/Mining/Energy : Crystallex (KRY) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ward Nicholson who wrote (4486)	1/26/1998 8:41:00 AM
From: tanoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

Hello Ward; Your opinions have been valued here Ward, you have come to speak with us not shout at us, or denegrate the people that are running KRY, there is a very big fundamental difference to how people can get a message accross, and it is obvious that you have entertained the gentlemanly route, one of which I have respect for. I have to agree with you as well, I'am looking to buy on what I believe we will see weakness later to-day, as I'am sure that there will be some who will take profits from last weeks gains.It is the nature of the beast to trade, and KRY has been a great trader, when the volume has always been up. This is going to be a very interesting week, especialy for those prepared, as we are going to see some great situations to skim some points. Now people don't think that I have bailed out on KRY, again "it is the nature of the beast, to trade", over the long term KRY is most likely heading higher, but along the way, when there is volitility there is profit, and that is what we are all here for. With regards,Frank

To: Ward Nicholson who wrote (4486)	1/26/1998 11:48:00 AM
From: Fulvio Castelli	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

A word of advice Ward. I normally wouldn't bother with somebody on the 'other side of the fence' but I like your style. If you do intend to short KRY again, wait until the close on Thursday. FWIW. Fulvio.

To: Ward Nicholson who wrote (4486)	1/26/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: Valuepro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

Ward, With over 3.5 hours to go in todays action, KRY has already traded nearly 500,000 shares between Amex and Toronto. I could be wrong, but it does not look to me like "volume is drying." Also, I agree with Fulvio as to the timing of your renewed interest in shorting KRY. The market will be completely out of breath on this wait if the ruling does not come down this week. VP

To: Ward Nicholson who wrote (4486)	1/26/1998 1:38:00 PM
From: Valuepro	Respond to of 10836

Ward, Good call! KRY was up early in the day to US$4 1/8. I put in a bid at 4 1/16 which got filled, and now it's down to 4. Good volume, though! VP

To: Ward Nicholson who wrote (4486)	1/26/1998 3:52:00 PM
From: Walter Kalin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10836

Ward. It looks like you may be right wrt KRY, FOM. I suggest KRY holders do some dd by calling up other cos. in Ven. They may be surprised as to what they hear. Oh let me guess, court ruling Tues. or next Tues or... Thumbs up to you Ward on another good call. Check out stockhouse for this post by Stayrich:(If this is at all accurate it is no surprise no me.) To start with I am VERY long and a very big believer in KRY. I've owned Crystallex for years and have lurked on this thread for some time. As a result of this thread I bought 20,000 shares of Foran at about $1.20 a while back as a bit of a flyer as it was obviously going to be somewhat promoted by mesa1 who is a bit of a fan favourite here (well deserved by this deal alone I might add). I left it at that until mesa1 vehemently suggested we do our own due dilligence. SOOO....after doing some D.D. I thought that I should share some of what I learned with this forum. First of all after being quite impressed with mesa1 on this thread I feel compelled to tell everyone that he doesn't check out quite like the person he comes across as on this forum. I believe he's been involved in KRY (primarily as a broker) since being introduced to Crystallex by Stihlwell ( Patchell, Pearson, Tomanik) in 1991 or 1992 and he still remains very well informed on Crystallex. However, besides being involved in a string of very poor/questionable deals (Ghana gold, New Sage,Keystone....ouch) over the years, more disturbing are his very serious troubles with the Vancouver Stock Exchange and more so with the Superintendents Office. It sounds as if Mr. VanSanten (mesa1) is currently banned from the brokerage business and is fighting a hefty fine (largest in V.S.E. history?) along with a couple of former client lawsuits. Sorry Rob but you have asked us on many occassions to check out you anf Foran. Foran didn't seem to check out any better. It has been run over the years (very non-eventfully) by a bit of a rougue lawyer by the name of Bernie Zinkhoffer who is better known around Vancouver for shorting deals than building public companies. The President is a fellow bases in Calgary named McKeekin who is an independent oil & gas consultant and what sounds like a glorified office manager for another oil & gas/construction company. Then you have a couple of consulting geologists -- Peter Dassler whose claim to fame is First Choice Indistries ( 7 cents ) and Stephen Masson who it appears has a pretty reasonable background ( and I would hope so for 1.6 million shares ) although no experience in small cap junior exploration companies such as Foran. The glue for this company (Kissenyew property, Masson, Dassler mesa1) seems to be Greg Pearson---who has evidently split with his Stihlwell partners and is no longer employed by Crystallex. He apparently hasn't endeared himself to Oppenhiemer etc. either by sliding Foran onto the Crystallex wave at this juncture in the deal and intimating that Crystallex management and or insiders are in some way part of it. They apparently are NOT! So what they have is this management team, some good exploration properties in the middle of Canada with very little or no work done on them, and some wild rumours of Billion dollar acquisitions for 10 or 12 million.........as mesa1 says ............hmmm. Personally I have sold my 20,000 shares, however on the strength of their well paid promotional team (Pearson, Mesa1, Frank/Grandich, Binning etc.) the stock could go higher on pure promotion & storytelling (primarily to KRY shareholders) but the easy money has already been made. Any comparisons to KRY--past or present--are pure and absolute B.S. Foran is a grass roots exploration company in what at this time is a tight V.S.E. shell (until these Private Placements, warrants & property acquisitions start coming free trading).....I urge all to do some due dilligence.