RE:Loan agreementfirecracker, you bring up a very good point about the loan agreement. The agreement can vanish very quickly if the company gets in financial trouble. This is why it is so important to have cash on hand to be prepared for a weak zinc market. It is also why they company should not have been wasting cash to buy back stock, and they should have sold forward more zinc when the price was higher. They completely under estimated the potential for weakness in the zinc market.