..Wanderer5, i think the Asian markets will leed the Globe back to stability. I see the 43-101 as a well laid out mining plan as this low hanging fruit will allow us to eliminate a good chunk of the preferreds and allow our share price to be revalued. I guess once the ball mill gets upgraded and the gravity circiut on line we could see a good increase in mill capacity and help our bottom line. Looking around the globe ni producing companies are facing higher cost , strikes, csh flow problems, depleted inventories-reserves etc. I see Gary moving us forward with the worst behind us entering 2010 the yr of the Tiger. Traps7