Happy New Year to all and to all at least a good if not great year of following our once little bear who has now grown up and is beginning to grrrr if not roar! I am rather proud to say that I am, in all probability, the very oldest of the old farts who frequent our little Hub. I am somewhat less proud in the profound knowledge that I am also undoubtedly the least knowledgeable member of this Hub when it comes to the mining industry. My Texas family is in the oil and gas "bidness" not gold and silver. However I have enjoyed all the great times I have had participating in this well-mannered and downright quirky stock forum.

To all Hub Leaders: Please surf on over to the Hub Leaders Froum and give a big shout out to George and his fellow Agoracom managers for providing us with the very best of the best message forums over here at the Agora. I have escaped from far worse message hells than this delightful one. Glad I landed here still relatively sane and solvent (more or less).

Anno prospero Nuevo ya'll, Happy new year, Doc and Vegas both wait anxiously to meet everyone and to get outrageously drunk as well.

Doc