I've never found the banks very helpful unless they were helping themselves.They give 2 per cent interest and loan your money out for 10 or more where's the incentive?.Small wonder people are looking for better investment opportunities.It's a shame we collectively can't flex some muscle and remind these corporations who's money there operating with!.Just imagine if we all had shares in a gold mine and as luck would have it we knew where all the easy veins of gold were. Then one day a couple of the more knowleagable investors came up with a plan did some math on the profitability of mining these veins based on availble information and the numbers made sense! Now imagine all these investors collectively came together to one web site and considered thier options as a group. I imagine the united front of these investors dollars and a single minded approach to develope and mine, easy target gold could show profits from day one, and why not the locals useing traditional methods have worked the area successfully for years. Now I imagine low interest loans to locals to buy haul trucks to move blast rock would be a welcome development to the economy that would beneifit real people not just investors. A win win situation for all that would come with public and goverment support which could help speed up other projects. I believe we all want to do the right thing but corporate leadership is disconnected from investors and seldom on the same page. Huge corporation expense like travel and offices etc just canniblize themselves and us P.S . Still long on SLI