Borrowing some numbers from a wise fellow shareholder - if the ovoid comes in at 5g/t, using $160 per oz. and 115 million shares it would come out at around $54 per share. This is just the ovoid, and conservative numbers. I'm sure calculations and bargaining would be interesting and complicated, but looking at it simply that would compute to over $6.2 billion. Who could afford us? It may take a partnership of us and a big player or two other big mining companies.

Barrick filed a lawsuit in Jan. 2010 against Gold Corp and New Gold. A couple related articles are at the following links. I'm no expert on big business but I suspect neither of them may not feel like going into business with Barrick at this time, or in the near future.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/barrick-files-lawsuit-over-chile-mine-deal/article1430582/

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1714396820100217

I'm very optimistic on the future of SLI, and a partnership may be a wonderful thing long term. If the gold is there, share price will rise with positive results. When you start punching numbers into a calculator it gets exciting and hard to comprehend, sort of like light years!

I like the rich by Christmas time frame, but I won't be surprised if a buy out or major agreement takes longer than that.