An open plea for serious contemplation:

By definition, most, if not all of us, are bulls on Kimber. I have seen written on this board expectations of share price gains for Kimber ranging from modest to extreme over time frames stretching from nearby to multiple years.

I've yet to read a post here that the stock is bound for zero. (You can, however, read such on the sophomoric Yahoo boards).

But, for all our optimism, based on facts and extrapolation of those current numbers, the Kimber stock continues to perform poorly. If it advances slightly, more often than not of late, it has been giving back that advance, with interest. Looking longer term, this is a stock that zoomed from this price neighborhood late last year to 1.80 a share. Now it's effectively made a roundtrip back to the stock price slums.

All the usual explanations could very well apply for current weakness -- summer doldrums for precious metals and mining stocks; tight money making life particularly tough on juniors; a rough economy causing investors to avoid speculative stocks. Yet some juniors are performing. Ours is not.

I leave it to the deeper thinkers than me to cogitate on this subject at their leisure and perhaps endeavor to enlighten me and others whether it's possible there is something amiss in our story that we have yet to realize/acknowledge. Could it be we're all wrong? If not, why not? Why, with gold and silver prices up, with this stock seemingly having established minable reserves, has it been cut in a third pricewise?

Do not misread this as panic or impatience and offer the customary bromides or handholding. Not needed. But a wise investor ponders his/her investments on a continuous basis, making sure the initial premise for the investment has not been rendered invalid by subsequent events. To think either oneself or an investment is invincible is dangerous hubris. The price in either case could be high.

Again, could we all be very wrong? And if so, how? If not, why not?