Hey, response time sometimes depends on when you catch me. I’m at my computer now. Sorry, I got very busy last week with the press release and getting some other stuff organized that I never got back to your other email.



I don’t know who’s messing with the stock, but you can clearly see somebody’s either playing around or just being dumb. There are a lot of holders out their that bought shares for three or four cents, so I would not be surprised to see them take something off the table. But putting up a million shares is not the way to do it. Manipulation or just inexperience? Who knows in that case. The end-of-day downticking is BS, though. The market knows we will have to raise money so that normally does hold back a stock.



We are done drilling for this season. The AW guys wanted to test some ideas and drilled enough holes to do so. Now is the time to get the results and think about next year’s program. I think in the spring the best idea is to run some EM to get good targets for next summer. The last hole 10 is the very exciting one for me. It won’t have high grade, but it proves the really big deposit style exits on the island, and it’s just a matter of finding the higher grade in each of the anomalies. Here’s what I think about it (it may be too geo, but it might help):



The presence of copper in hole ST22-10 (assays still pending) will confirm the bigger “Congo-style” sed-hosted copper concept, where that plumbing system has intersected large permeable horizons (former oil/gas reservoirs) and the fluids have precipitated copper. We don’t really have to wait for assays because we visually see chalcopyrite in the 68m intersection of the large EM anomaly representing what we thought represented a sed-hosted copper target (see August 23 NR). There will be copper in those assays. Not heaps for this hole (expect <1%, Cu overall), but the concept is proven and it is a matter of refining our targeting with more detailed