board. We are all supposedly intelligent people living for the most part in a democratic country where we enjoy freedom of speech. Okay you disagreed with Cos but this does not give you the right to attack him, you can put forward your own ideas and it can be debated but no personal attacks.

If Cos decides to stay out of the forum we will have lost another poster whose knowledge and information was always insightful.

My own personal take on what is happening with the US is that it has an impact on the future of NOT and every other major and junior miner. Tight money means less $ for exploration (drilling) and also less $$ being offerred by majors for takeouts of juniors. Will it come back, of course it will but not before we see some major fallouts. We may even see some more consolidation of major mining companies and that will not bode well for juniors.

If Cos does stay out I for one will miss his views, I don't know the man except for reading his posts, but I do know that he contributed greatly to this board and to the NOT community.

GLTA

Joe