EstablishingPublic traded mining exploration companies back on the VSE was one of the best gigs in town. Don't have to do much work to maintain your claims, poke a few holes, find some half decent dirt and raise private placement below trading price, consolidation when outstanding shares get too high, and repeat. For a geologist its the life, and lots of hunting and fishing up near Stewart. Ed has to be getting up there in age. He wasn't young back in the 90's.