Thanks Joe and to everyone looking around. In my past experience when it gets real quiet something usually happens. We all just need to be patient but maintain being alert. I support the posting of wide ranging news / info that could effect us, anything could be relevant, and I do not mind spending a few seconds to decide if a post is worth reading or to skip over it. I hope everyone can take it easy and not get on each other's nerves while we continue waiting.

The time pressure grows each day:

1. Most here figure that we have a deadline to hear something or Crystallex will have to try a different approach.

2. Hugo's control is waining due to the Venezuelan budget deficit, imploding oil revenue and his harsh nationalization plan.

3. The sewer / hospitial projects are almost complete.

4. The workers / miners / citizens are restless.

5. Other Latin American countries engaged in socialist endeavours have continued their mining projects.

6. Bondholders situation has added a new twist.

I am sill of the opinion that we have better odds of a good outcome occuring rather than bad, the results of which might not be as lucrative as once hoped for, but still a positive result nevertheless :)