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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Platinum & Gold (GPGI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JACK R. SMITH JR. who wrote (5733)	4/13/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: JACK R. SMITH JR.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

Joe, Just my opinion here, and it appears that you are sucking wind on your production and your pounds. Yet and still, you have a real need to put down a fledgeling producer in GPGI. Sounds like sour grapes to me, and I am still not in receipt of your sample. What am I to think? You know what harsh things that I have said about GPGI lately, do you want my comments on your operation in an open forum? You say that you have all the answers on you web site, but Sir, I very seriously doubt that. You may have some ideas, and some may have merit, but I doubt you because you spend so much time with the percieved competition. If I had the process that you say you have, I would have no interest in GPGI, or IPMCF, or any other DD, yet you seem to spend lots of your precious time here and there and everywhere. Certainly, you must hear what I am saying here. I have given you the benefit of my ideas on how I would approach a situation that you say you are in, and I was joking about the more sinister aspects of those comments, but really, you have the answer or you do not. If you have it, then produce, and If you do not, then please go quietly into the sunset. You must understand that you are no different from any prospective producer of precious metals, even though you say you have a revolutionary process. Produce, or cease to exist. Simple as that. I have said this to GPGI, and I say it to you here. Proof is in the production, and If you are not producing great and economic quantities, then do not put down those who might be your potential competitors. Joe, I might have been impressed if you shipped me a few pounds of 90% precious metals, and I would have certainly treated you fairly. The fact is that I am receipt of nothing, and if anything arrives, I suspect the content will be minimal. Perhaps I will simply refuse shipment. Sad to not be in timely receipt of your dore, sir!! Yet, you seem to have no restraint in criticising and doubting other prospective competitors! Explain yourself here for all to see!! Jack

To: JACK R. SMITH JR. who wrote (5733)	4/14/1998 7:07:00 PM
From: Scott Wheeler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

Jack, I'm glad the drams have a lot of scruples! The following is forwarded by my mother (macedona@ma.ultranet.com), who is not an SI member and thus cannot contribute directly: "The only pre-metallic unit of value in Homeric Greece was cattle, the ox in particular. In the Iliad Talents of gold are mentioned. Achilles proposes as the first prize for a race a vessel of silver; for the second an ox, for the third a half Talent of gold. As the third prize might well be half the value of the second, this suggests that the Talent of gold and the ox would be of equal value. The Babylonians first converted the value of the oxen into bronze, creating the unit of weight, the "Talent". It was about 60 lbs of bronze shaped into the configuration of an ox hide, rectangular with projections for "legs". It could be divided with relative ease; however, it was difficult to transport due to its weight, so early civilizations (6th-7th cent. B.C.) developed a gold version of the Talent. It weighed only 9 grams (equivalent to the later Greek silver didrachm) but its value was equal to the 60 lb chunk of bronze. A writer on Talents at Alexandria about 100 A.D. says the Homeric Talent was the same weight as the later "daric", i.e., 130 grains (8.42 grams) of gold." Interesting, hmm?