RE:Alf - here's your solutionFirecracker, that would be a great deal for all involved, but I doubt the bone headed management of this company are smart enough to propose it. If you were the CEO of this company, I would buy the stock immediately. You understand the numbers and how to make them work for shareholders. Current management went into survival mode way to late after the price of zinc had already punched them in the face. They had no concept of the possibility that the price of zinc could decline. The stock buybacks were the height of foolishness, but failure to sell zinc on the forward market was the really big mistake.