Early exercise of our purchase option represents yet another milestone in our determined effort to begin unlocking the value of Minnesota's well-known base and precious metals deposits along the eastern Iron Range.

Redeploying these valuable taconite plant assets affords a rare opportunity to sharply reduce project development costs while creating new employment opportunities in an area still recovering from the traumatic LTV plant closure.

This project is among the very few worldwide that is poised to rapidly come on-line to help meet burgeoning global demand for base and precious metals that we all need and use every day.

They have to know that what they have can be lost. That's important, for them to know they are not entitled to it. We had to earn everything .

This final drilling campaign will complete the data requirements necessary for inclusion in our final Definitive Feasibility Study.

I can't believe one month later there's lead paint, ... I think it's part of a scheme. I realize we're in the Capitol Hill area. They're trying to build condos.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

It's going to be a win-win situation for both parties.

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.