good evening my new friend: Power is produced locally, and many times erratically. There are rainy seasons, and there are rainy seasons, just as there are hurricane seasons, and there are hurrcane seasons in Bermuda. Some mild, some are indescribable.

I haven't the slighest idea what the basic problems may be, or even 'IF' there 'ARE' any, but I have helped to start three new mining operations. None went as smoothly as the book says that they should have. There is always a bit of fixing here or there , an adjustment, a tweak there or two.

Setting up a mill, combined with a mining operation, is like baking a cake over a campfire of soft wood in a snow storm..

I have complete faith in Jim - if nothing else, just to get it going and back to the land of heaters & blankets at night, and unlimited coold beer, even 'if' of an 'inferior' quality.

But you can be sure that he will not leave, until he is satisfied with it, which means satisfied share holders.

Maybe someday I might let him ride my lovely mule, if he behaves

Don Jose de La Mancha.