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Bottom left … I think I recognize Chuck Shumer’s IQ. 🙂

https://vimeo.com/292192821

Senate Insider: Kavanaugh Votes Secured

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-27/senate-insider-kavanaugh-votes-secured

It looks like a fascinating place to visit and hope you live far, far away from it.

Thanks for the bit of sarcasm. If there was ever a more patient group of investors it would be us goldbugs.

A lot of us are at the age now that the short term is all we got. The guys at Kitco and elsewhere don’t know what they don’t know, and there are no longer any reliable indicators for pm’s.

Looks like we’re up a little with the dollar today – go figure.

Last week I took a trip south into ‘lower’ Puna for the first time since the May eruption.  Follow me on the map.  From Pahoa village south on Hwy 130, past Leilani Estates where the eruption occurred.  There are volcano “stretch marks”… cracks in the ground and across the highway where it crosses the rift summit that swelled with magma before the eruption finally broke out in Leilani.  These cracks are stable now and have not moved, but they continue to vent steam from groundwater.  There are patch-plates on the roadway over the cracks, and the forest on either side is venting steam.

We continued south to the village of Kalapana… hidden behind the legend on this map, and turned left up the coast, passing thru Opihikao and finally to MacKenzie State Park where the road now ends.  The park was just reOpened, now that the nearby lava flow has cooled.  (Pink area on map)  Hawaiians describe two types of lava:  “Pahoehoe” is the smooth flowing, very liquid lava that hardens to a black satin, smooth sheen.  When lava flows far enough and outgasses, it cools a bit into smaller chunks that continue to roll along as it crystalizes and cools into clinkers and cinder-like chunks.  This rough, clinker lava is called “A’a” lava.  This is what one usually finds after a long flow downhill finally reaches the ocean.  It is a red-hot moving wall of clinker rocks that just keeps shoving forward.

So I parked the car and took a 10 minute hike along the shoreline cliffs of the park.  This very rocky cliff coastline is now collecting black sand beaches from the eruptive lava entering the ocean nearby.  And here it is… where A’a meets the sea.  This is about a 30 foot high ridge of fresh lava.

mm3 is on a roll tonight!  Sorry I’ve been MIA.  I’ve been…

Beachin’ it !
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/671945/

And one of the greatest guitarist solos ever…

If only commish would give me apprentice points…

Sounds like you know what it costs to build a mine. Agreed, the company deserves what they get after the brains, hard work and layout. Hopefully the mine was operating for many years and owners were well rewarded.  The “back yard” was just a figure of speech. A lot of other words I could use. Nationalism is bad. I’m just on the outside looking in. Reporting what I see. Not choosing sides. It’s not my fault that the system crashed, and what WAS isn’t what is anymore. I was always against globalization because Long term it’s not practical. Nothing lasts forever and nothing stays the same. My guess is FCX or Freeport, was screwed by the people that manipulate metals prices. Maybe FCX wasn’t profitable enough to pay decent wages and royalties?