Welcome to our Goldnev Discussion Group, Raysin! You provided an excellent posting for a newcomer. You are obviously up-to-speed with the company's activities. Your observations regarding both oil shale and coal samples has been a topic of interest and speculation for several of us posters, and Marc Dame himself, over the past several months. Lets hope that interest spills over BIG TIME to the not-currently invested community at large. As you say, this is sadly not a good time for good news and that is a shame. Can't worry about that so better to press on with the good news and see where it leads us.