Hey Rinky,

I also think a bit of patience is still required in terms of the stock price. In terms of drilling, we have been told in the EIS, promptly. IMO, we shouldnt still need patience on start up of drilling. Lori said;

The 2011 drilling program at the Tesoro Gold Project will commence as soon as possible.

also;

"We are delighted with the approval of our EIS. The completion of this EIS is in line with St. Elias'

aggressive exploration program at Tesoro.

I expected the drilling announcement last week, but maybe this week may be better. If Geithner gets his commitment for more printed money, which I beleive he will, gold may go for a little run this week along with stocks.

Getting back to the sp; I have some concerns.

Not the stock price at the present, but how it got there. We are aware of small short positions in the order of 100k or so, that come and go.We see these every 2 weeks on the short report. I have found out through research that it appears a naked short position can be detected on a stock and the amount. There are ways to do everything, and like BOW say,s "math doesn,t lie".There are a couple solutions to rid the naked short position, there are ways around everything. Enough said on that matter, the important thing is, it can be dealt with over time.

As I mentioned Thursday or Friday, there was some unusual trading detected at days end on Thursday. There were several cross trades done as rbc being the recipient and several other brokerages being the contributer. Its not so bad when its just a cross trade at par value, but this one was clearly orchestrated to push the sp up. This is very distinctive of a manipulator and should trip a trading alert . IMO, there is someone else playing with the stock besides the shorters that is controlling our sp. There could be many reasons for this from accumulation methods to an individual working the sp up and down.

The bottom line, it appears to be played with. Its no way we should be sitting at this sp with what appears to be a decent find and a high percentage of long term investors.I,m guessing that someone is using these techniques to accumulate.Then I would ask myself who and why would they use these methods that can so easily be detected? I have my own opinions to these these questions, as someone else may have theirs.

I wonder if Lori feels pressured by the sp action of late? I wonder if she sees the clear manipulation.?I wonder if she is being proactive on this? This is undoubtedly costing her money and must be affecting her own expectations.It has to be putting some pressure back on her. Will this cause her to ramp up the Tesoro drilling?

I think so, its part of her commitment to her shareholders.And I think she knows, its better to hold onto her longtime shareholders by delivering and keeping this company strong. Now, is not the time to be slack, we held our sp for 6 months on little news.

IMO