zoo- if luck is what it took, so be it and congrats......I thought I was lucky to buy a few shares at 31 and thought that was great, ha ha little did any of us know. wish I had some more money too.

testosteron- thanks for the post. and yes feedback and information flow from Chad has been great. he is there anytime I want an answer or update on things but I do admit I check in infrequently, less then I would like so I can leave him alone and do his thing. he gets 100's of emails a day and is always working on something. we are still in the building stage but there has been good progress. the base is there and it is huge.

short term time frame people would understandably be more impatient.

and hey I am not expert, geologist etc. working on the level of a 3rd grader here, ha ha. Was just seeing if people even want to talk about things, learn, take guesses on what may happen. maybe if that adit seems plausible the drilling will go MUCH faster and cheaper and really heat things up on the flagship, cove.

I think Raul/Marcus and Chad ideology is to be understated and they are expecting BIG things from many of the properties, they allude to it just won't pin numbers on it. most in the industry take moose pasture and make it sound like the grass is coated by gold. Their could quite easily be 2 million at cove and if pooling and areas underneath the pit itself, I hear, 2 mil more( from analysts I talk to that cover the stock and when I was in the field at the properties too). No promises by anyone of course just postulation. when one thinks they believe there are many other similar targets of equal size at cove, one has to stand back and go WOW, I will wait to see this one out. I don't think Chad, Raul, Marcus are here to crawl at a snails pace for 5-10 years and we will accelerate at some point and a JV with kinross or loan from them on big springs is a possibility. Summit has been drilled a lot in the past and there is shallow gold? if they can get their paperwork in order, find some money and drills to get moving on it. hilltop is huge, something like 55 sq mi? but that has been a disappointment so far and then we have Mill which is so close to Cortez hills and has showed huge promise in three areas. black and July,hmmmm sounds interesting but we just need $$ for all this, so bringing in cash flow without dilution is the key and tom lee can handle supervising many drills perhaps 20-35 he says. that would be nice, will have to see that in a few years.

Kostas( Gus)- hey man, how ya doing, glad you are still holding, maybe you are "forced" to be patient like some of us as the loss is so huge on paper, why bother to sell. great meeting you in Toronto. this stock just has to be parked and watched longer term. I still see greatness somewhere down the road. hope you still got to Greece some how or plan to have some fun.

Hey Ron, thanks for chiming in. glad you are on board. its always interesting to meet and find out how everyone found this little gem. as for Bemabeemer ( bob, Robert, metalcomplex2005, etc) yes he certainly is around, I talk to him every couple of weeks more frequently if things are happening. was able to introduce him to Chad over lunch and go to dinner with Raul and bring him along at the AGM. it was great. he is still 100% VIT, just real patient, not worried, like me, except he is MUCH more geologically inclined, ha ha. I am compiling a good info CD to send to him with the big springs tech report and other cool PDF VIT and gold stuff, so he can pour hours into reading it over and over. i will convey his feedback when he is done