Excellent News indeed! Nice to hear, especially after such a difficult year. Look forward to hearing much more good news coming from your camp. Although we both deal with nickel, I think thats where the similarities end. LBE is a mining company, ISM will most likely never mine a bit of nickel other then the drill core they send to the labs as they are purely an exploration company. ISM will most likely never put up a mill as they have no need for one. I believe you were correct in noting that McWatters was originally headed to being an open pit mine, however, due to the cash flow crunch, they decided to grab the high grade stuff first because they desperately needed the funds. The low grade stuff would have been economical at that time as nickel prices were skyrocketing but management wanted the high grade stuff first for cash flow purposes. However, its all about survival - and you guys survived.

Now it's nice to see a neighbour of ours making progress. I hope it continues. Good stuff! Good Luck!

FP