Glad I found SFMI thru a friend a couple of years ago and this board has really helped me not only stay long, but acquire over 1.5 million additional shares during this major bottom (hopefully!) in the SP. I've made quite a bit of money over the last few years trading the silver/gold via leveraged ETFs and options, but I have a stable of midcap and major mining stocks and related mining ETF's that I haven't made much on and I only owed a few jr. miner positions from stocks mentioned on King World. I'm not sure that without reading all the responsible posts from this board whether I would have taken such a large position in SFMI, but I hope it works out for all because it sure would be fun to have "group hug" at the mine someday!! Perhaps this year I too will go to the annual meeting and say hi to a few of you in person. My strong feeling is that if SFMI has the gold, we'll get paid one day and if the price action on gold & silver continue to regain strength, that payday will be sooner rather than later! Please keep up the great posts! Khaki