Baires: I have no idea, I just raised it as an example of what is going on out there, and using the information I have from other sources, speculating that Waterton needs to dispose of mines or operate them efficiently, environmentally and safely at a time of gross shortages of highly skilled personnel. Waterton is a financing company not a miner - seems a great opportunity for a professional mining company to get in early and help them make some money by using their capital to open up and/or operate mines that have gone bankrupt or are near depletion and which are useless to them and costly to maintain without the professional mining company. Is the shortage of skilled personnel in mining a big reason that financing is so hard to come by,and why the risks seem so high to financing companies and therefore the interest rates? Seems to me this is major. Ike