Price of Gold ...Regarding the price of Gold... Wilwal is absolutely right. The lower the price of gold goes, the more valuable Merrex's low cost mines are. Currently I have 2 thirds of my money in larger cap miners and 1 third in Merrex. If gold were to tank more to $1,000 by the end of the year and Merrex gets bought out. In that situation I would quickly take my large profits in Merrex and buy up the large cap miners such as Yamana at dirt cheap prices with leverage in a margin account. So Merrex is like a hedge against a spot gold price drop, because it ironically makes their quality mining sites that much more valuable. Vice Versa, if the large cap miners spike hard and MXI stays the same, I'll quickly sell my portion of large cap miners to buy more MXI. I am tempted to go ALL IN Merrex right now however :)