I posted, left the board for a while and all hell broke loose. I thought the sarcasm would be so obvious as to be apparent.

I can't imagine anyone walking away from billions of pounds of CU and millions of oz. of PMs so the " going out of business " was an obvious pun to show, the only reason could be, we have a deal. it's done or very close to it.

I'm just as jumpy as the rest of you, I have a large commitment here and it will be life altering for me and some other people. I've been thinking about management's recent activities, intenseley for the last week, and can only come to one conclusion. for all intents and purposes, it's over, nothing else makes sense. we have a deal......chunky