you can tell how tough times have gotten when it is seen as encouraging when the price of nickel has gone to 4.8992 ( was around 6.00 a few days ago) coupled with the very small drop in LME tons. everyone is looking for the silver lining, maybe if all the press and internet reports focused a little more on the positives as opposed to the absolute worse case senarios we would find a way to climb out of the mess a little sooner.....i too am encouraged by what i am seeing as far as LBE is concerned, lets get that site operating guys..