Hey- thanks for the kind words- deserved or not. I really appreciate the extremely knowledgable and sane discussions here. I've been here before. In fact, nearly one of the originals- way back in the maybe not so sane "Dragonball" days in 2009. But sometimes, when very busy, it is easiest to be mostly in one place.

It has been a very long journey, and I know it's been said before- but I believe we really are close to the journey's end. Fits and starts- a path to BC and a path to NPSP. But it seems that not only are we now on the right path, but we are approaching the summit. We "knew what we had" in the ground at BC- but it has not as yet proven feasable to monitize what is there. Similarly, it seems quite likely that HM holds vast reserves. The difference is that we are now much farther along. ZTEM surveys were completed in both areas- but at HM this builds upon a huge body of supporting and interlocking data, that, when the 2 and 3-D ZTEM analysis is completed and integrated with that preceding data, will allow JB's 40 years of "intimate knowledge" and expertise to be brought to bear, creating a detailed picture like little before. This will be laid out in exquisite detail in the revised SRK report, paving the way for an accurate and very likely spectacularly successful drilling campaign. Moreover, there are not the same impediments as in AK- political, environmental or meteorological. And, importantly, the potential for deals, with the Naseba connection, as well as locally active entities, seems closer at hand. This is still the key. We clearly are dependent on success in this funding arena. And we all hope- and I expect- that when that SRK report is completed, funding will follow. It all hinges on this. But I believe this time the odds are with us.