Phockey, just a couple of comments.

We were told by Murry back around the first of July, that news would not probably come until sometime in Aug. I suspect he knew that sample results would take awhile, but nevertheless, he told us then what to expect in the line of news. I was talking to a freind today that talked to a Columbia gold explorer. He was told by them, that their lab was swamped with samples that had to be processed for many companies, and expect delays. The point I made awhile ago, that a Maritime Driller had to dispatch one of their drills to South America, should also speak of how busy the Exploration is down there. With increased exploration because of metal prices so high, most companies will be waiting longer for their assays. They will come, but it will most likely take longer than normal, because of what I said above.

On the margin accounts, I beleive you are correct that some investors of SLI may have had to settle up their margin calls because of the market downturn. We had a discussion on here awhile back about Margin Accounts, and suggested it might not be a good place to have your SLI shares if you were long on the stock. The main reason was because of the SLI shares being available to shorters. You have touched on another good reason why you shouldn,t have them in a margin account, because of margin calls. We have heard that a few on here took their shares out of margin accounts, so maybe that helped us the last few days also.

IMO