Good to see some great posts today you guys/gals. I liked the couple points on why there should not be a problem with the permit.Most every problem that we could have had with the permits, seem logically ruled out. So, this must be the permit. I am kinda leaning towards that there must be much more than the permit. I say this because you usually dont see companies halt their stocks trading on permits and we have all been expecting the permit for months. It could be just the permit whereas in our case it caused a lot of nervousness.

But, what if its an offer? Dont forget that those 2 small mines on the Tesoro, one 100m deep, the other 60m+, could represent as many as 10 shallow drill holes. You dont have to be very bright to look at all the correlations Hog/company has shown you to understand how rich this property is. If we see it, guaranteed a possible suitor would.

Is it possible that a suitor was/is waiting for permit confirmation before making their move? If a suitor was gonna make a move on us, would they try now before our market cap got too big? Would they throw in a lowball offer? Would they test the water just to see how strong our shareholder base is, or would they be as shrewd to informally make an offer to Lori? Just what would they do and how do they think? What would you do in a suitors position if you were interested in SLI? These are some questions I ask myself and wish I knew the definite answers.

Instincts tell me that a potential buyer is lurking in the shadows, but instincts doesn,t tell me when they will make their first move, if it hasn,t already been made.