RE: Buying Sabina The XStrata deal is a pure silver play for SBB. For XStrata its more - silver plus zinc plus copper plus a small amount of gold. Producing miners are often weighted a market cap of 20% of the ore in the ground. But the producing miner had to dilute shares to pay for themine, and has a daily cost to extract the ore. SBB will not have to pay for any costs for the mine and will not have to pay to extract the ore. For "selling" this property to XStrata, SBB will get about 50 million ounces of silver at no cost. This is pure profit with no overhead. One way to value this property is to comapre it to a 20 year bond. What do they pay these days? 2.5% For argument sake, use 4%. If in 20 years from now, all the silver that is owed SBB and that is mined from XStrata's property will have a worth of $1.7 billion at todays prices for silver, then a long term 4% bond over a 20 year time frame is worth $770 million today (based on a final payout of $1.7 billion). And $770 million would give SBB a market cap of $4.80. But this does include SBBs cash in the bank or gold properties. This also does not take into consideration interest that could be accrued from the silver revenue or the unavoidable increase in the price of silver. Furtrher, this 4% interest rate used here is unrealistic as US 30 year bonds presently go for 3.125%. Bottom line, SBB is very vood value at current prices.