Hi Sculpin

I have no background in mining as I am a telecom engineer. The only useful thing about that in the context of this board is that I can still remember some of my vector calculas (I guess my tuition was worth it..lol). When I first started doing my DD I focussed on some of the theory behind the quantec studies (some of which was developed in the 1960's). My confidence was boosted when I found that some of that was a spin off from the theory developed by the Schlumberger brothers. In the work that I do, I find that technology is finally catching up to the math and theory that was derived more than a century ago (in the case of the wireless communications some of the math was developed in the late 1700's).

I am always interested in new applications of "old" theories and math, if the applications succeed, they tend to be major "game changers". As an example I remember reading an article 8 years ago on how light reflected of butterfly wings and at that time how it had the potential to be applied to new LCD displays. This is being applied today to some of the new smart phone displays.

The DD posted by people such as yourself has been the primary source of any mining knowledge I have picked up since Q4 2010.

I will be the first to admit this is rather unorthodox. While I have a diversified business background (small tech start up trying to raise VC money to working in regulated industries). In general I have not seen where I had to anything extra to contirbute due to my lack of technical knowledge, or detailed understanding of how the stock market works for junior companies. I have learned a lot about myself and how it is important for me to fight my knee jerk impulses and stick to the original plan.

toot

Hi All

I have only posted one time before (last fall if my memory is correct). I did all of my own DD before I bought in, and I started to monitoring Agoracom after I bought in. I have an incredible amount of respect for the hub leaders. Fundamentally I still believe my original reasons for buying have not changed, although I have a lot of concerns how things are being run. For example I did a reverse look up on Claudas number and it is a cell phone number with Telus Mobility. Please feel free to cross check my work (sometimes it is better to be wrong) http://www.whorang.us/reverse-phone/6047865805.html.

By the way, I have not sold a single share and I will not. If something weird happens and there is somekind of hostile takeover then I will by shares in whoever takes over as I still believe in the original story.

Thank you all

Hi All

I am a "newbie" to this forum stuff but I have been reading this form for a few months now. I bought my shares based on my own DD (I did not know about this forum until after I bought my shares). The hub leaders have only verified that buying the shares was probably one of the smarter things I have done in a long time. Thanks to the co-worker who steered me to SLI in the first place.

Before I bought the shares there were two fundamental issues that I had to resolve. They were (1) Bre-Ex and (2) what is the theory behind the Quantec surveys (I had to dust off some of my old engineering math books for that one..LOL.... the brain cells don't quite function like they used to).

The existence of the 43-101 statement and the regulatory requirements behind the need to create such a report mitigated the "Bre-ex" factor for me (also my wife, she was the one I had to really convince).

I spend about three months researching the science behind the Quantec survey and I found that its origins can be traced back to the Schlumberger brothers (spelling?). We all know what impact that had on the oil industry. I also found that the theory behind two dimensional measurements was developed in the 1960's, technolgy is finally catching up with the theory (just a note, some the of core theory behind communications was developped in the late 1700's, it just took us a couple of hundred years to catch up with the theory). In my mind the science behind the Quantec survey has a long history and it has been tested in the field. That was good enough for me.

I bought my shares when they were $2.50, and yes I had some explaining to do to the wife. However I have done a lot of reading on the stock market and one thing that sticks out is "know why you bought the stock, if the story has not changed, who cares what others say, their negative speaking will only distract you". In my mind the story has not changed and the final chapter will be written when the test results come in. While it did not give me warm fuzzies watching the share prices drop, I always remembered three things: (1) the 43-101 report is good, (2) the science is good, and (3) there is enough money in the SLI bank to prove out the studies. Therefore we do not need additional investors to write the book, to bad for them, they are not clueing in. The shorters ticked me, but I know with the money in the bank, we will be able to let reality prove them wrong, they have no control of the bank account, the science, the 43-101 report or what is in the ground.

Anyway, thanks for the time, the fantastic hub leaders, and my co-worker for telling me about SLI. By the way, I went to Murray's last meeting in Stony Plain. The only think I can say is I got permission from the "finance department" to buy more shares (yahoo!!!!). This will be the story that we look back on in a few years with great memories.

Hopefully I will have something positive to contribute as time goes on.

Toothpaste