To: Gari Rolfe who wrote (3042 ) 4/8/1998 8:04:00 PM From: Donald F. DeKold Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4718
Gari, tell me if this is not easy for you to understand. I've talked to one of the geologists that knows a great deal about the Ojolali...by telephone. I trust his opinion, but am cautious enough to realize that geology is an inexact science, and the drill is the only truth detector. I must couch my language with words like I FEEL or I BELIEVE, because nobody on this planet really KNOWS for certain how much gold will be found. I've also had independent confirmation by private e-mail from other individuals who've read my posts that they've heard the same thing. You really ought to ask yourself why five banks put up $30,000,000 a little more than a year ago to underwrite Antares. Also, why did Coleville Resources involve themselves in such a knockdown drag out fight to hang on to as much of their interest as they did? When the underwriters met with Antares and Coleville to seek financing in early 1997, I'm certain a fairly large number of people representing the institutions heard the geologists and other representatives speak. There was also that infamous report of Barricks made available to this private elite that mentioned 12,000,000 ounces from Barricks own surface trenching and sampling. Anyway, I don't know the several individuals who've e-mailed me, and I've always suspected they might have been in group that heard the original presentations to the bankers. I have a suggestion, if you're game. We can do this, if you're disposed to such nonsense. Let's place a private wager between the two of us. I say time will prove that the Ojolali has closer to 50,000,000 than your paltry 2,000,000 in gold equivalents. We can set a five year time frame for this wager. Contact me by private e-mail, if you want to pursue this. And Gari, in case you didn't know, there is a private e-mail feature available on SI now. That means you don't have to reveal your identity until the time is up to collect/pay your wager. Don P.S. Gari, I've heard that a pessimist shares a commonality with an optimist. They both distort reality. However, the optimist feels better about his perception.