About 700 juniors, are in peril with scarce cash and no flow through available. The pool of flow through has shrunk enormously, but it might improve near the end of the year. This also means money is scarce to option out properties.

We might be in a 5 year base metals bear market - unless China perks up?

I had hoped that FNC would hold its Argex shares until Argex matures and they are worth $10 or so.

The recent recovery of titanium by Lakefield Labs means there will be a good future for Magpie - some day. New method of titanium metals recovery might also use Quebec electricity to refine if instead of playing in the commodity TiO2 market.