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Gold/Mining/Energy : Winspear Resources - Eric Charters Only! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jack hampton who wrote (75)	4/3/1999 4:45:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99

Stan is dead. But his dreams live on. I moved on from that area about 1985 when the gettin' was good. But I never forget old gold camps. They will never die, like old soldiers. Gerldton-Beardmore was Canada's fifth largest gold camp. When others had faded it kept making money as contrary to opinion the ore in saddle reef areas is actually cheap to mine. McLeod Mosher made Lac a lot of money. Leitch made Karl Springer a fortune and it became one of Canada's premier holding companies after a while. The Magnet closed early but it was far from mined out. I will bet there is at least one mine that could be restarted in just about every gold camp in Canada even at today's prices. The trouble is perception not reality. But I deal with perception every day and as Lenny Bruce used to say sometime when you figure you have given em your best lines it is just like a G-D staring contest. It is at times like these that I appreciate the talents of David Walsh. EC<:-}

To: jack hampton who wrote (75)	4/3/1999 5:34:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99

Also sad but True. I used to drive by the rocks of the LSSZ every month. In 1979 I lived in Red Lake and drove to Kenora where I used to dream about starting the next big gold mine on the Islands of Lake of the Woods. No Shoal Lake back then. Occasionally I would drive past that shear zone and I recall looking idly in the books about Lake Superior Mining. But I could see no big headframes there. I was crazy about the Lake Superior Islands, the Puskasaw Peninsula and Michipicoten Island. The only ones I truly foresaw were the Puskasaw, Mishibishu, Eskay Creek, the Brookbank and Geraldton "finds". Eskay took a bit of thinking but the rest of it was in the books and a matter of time. I don't know where the next big one will be. I think it is sad that companies like Teck end up with the Pogo. But if it had been a prospector then it would not be found until he dropped it. EC<:-}