Iced, cheer up ole chap! Its not meant to offend you, only a cliche you must have heard before and I am using the cheer up portion of it.

The Chance F is not connected to the main Tesoro Property and not all that important in terms of what happens with the Tesoro. There is a Chinese company that owns the property inbetween and interupts the adjoining.If work is done on it quickly, good, it will add value to SLI, but if there is only mapping and such, it doesn,t matter much right now. The Tesoro could be sold, and Chance F sold years later, it doesn,t matter for that reason.

IMO, the deep drills also doesn,t matter that much right now. We have to work on proving stuff up, from the surface down, that is the way to do it. Its a big property and I would rather see 20 wildcat holes instead of seeing a couple deep holes at this point. The more gold we find closer to the surface will be the most economical at first and will add value to any offer,quicker. You only want a couple deep holes later to prove up mine life if you wish. But, to prove something deep up now, that would take any company 25 years to even reach, is proposterous at this point in time, and should not be done now. The only time you would want those deep drills at this stage in the game, is if an offer came in. Then you might want to have some deep mine life as a wild card to throw on the table during negotiations. I don,t know what Lori,s plans are, this is just what I would do, and I have faith that Lori has a good and maybe different plan of her own. Even though my plan may seem the best, that may be only because we haven,t seen Lori,s plan for comparrison. I,ll tell you, I have faith in Lori and believe she has everything it takes to deliver max value to the shareholders.No body is perfect, but that doesn,t mean that they can,t change if they have the chance to. I have seen attributes revealed in Lori,s interviews that tells me she has the right good stuff. I know some may argue with me on that, thats ok, but I have to say it the way I see it when it comes to that part.Some other things she may have to work on, or even justify later, what ever it takes.

IMO

Sorry for rambling.

We had expected things sooner, but it takes time to gather up the ducks and keep them in their proper positions. But, as Rinky says, "the ducks are lining up".

PS; Rinky,I believe I heard the other day that someone is building another Titanic, will that SS St Elias hold all us believers?

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ps; iced, I have sent you a couple PM,s (private message)here, no response?