IrwinFast,

Being that you think these hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on travel are completely justified. Can you tell us how these expendatures have benifited the company? If it was the legitimate travel expensises of three individuals costing $1000 per day, every day, all year, plus the cost of their salaries (Putting this cost up somewhere around $600,000 for the company for these guys to be there), how has this benifited SLI or its shareholders?

As far as I can see we've recieved 38m of analyzed drill core in partial results. That's about $16,000 per meter, without even factoring in drilling costs, lab costs and other associated costs.

In my opinion these costs are completely unacceptable. What is the end result of these expendetures that make these costs so justifable to you?