Hi Solabeamer,

Much of what you say is true, but the real fact that exists today is that few gold investors have any confidence that the gold in the ground that juniors report are ever going to get to the production stage. In the end, gold is worthless if it never gets to a production phase. The only way that confidence level will improve, IMO, is if one or both of the following occur:

1. Gold price substantially exceed $1,000 per ounce. Then we can look for tide to rise all boats relative to the better juniors - they will all be rated higher for each ounce of gold in the ground.

2. VIT achieves its milestones and achieves its objectives: Completion of its prefeasibility study at Durban Gulch by year-end; VIT is successful in completing its engineering studies to build an adit to start its next drilling phase at its Cove Helen Zone and it gets its permits approved for the adit and additional drilling in a timely manner; and VIT achieves successful drilling results from Santa Fe or any other properties that it reports over the next few months.