RE:RE:GOOD FAITH!Larry "good faith" is a legal term, used in many contracts. It requires the parties to do or not do certain things, What were they doing during " a long negotiating period": obviously negotiating, to get the basics (ie. terms and price in place.) "Due diligence" would probably invovle investigating if the gold really is there, by examining documents of the history of Treaty Creek. This might take a week or maybe two. Once that is done the parties can sign a binding contract. Not rocket science and done many times before. Up early tommorow Larry!