bliz, did you noticed the following - From the start of the Gold Rush in 1848 and up through the 1940s, the 120-mile-long California Mother Lode produced 13 million ounces of gold. Almost 8 million of those ounces came from the 10-mile district between Jackson and Plymouth, where the Sutter Gold Mine is located. But Sutter Gold Mine is not some throwback to the Forty-Niners and the great California Gold Rush. The mine first opened in 1989, using modern equipment. The main shaft is bored out to 20-feet high — big enough to drive a municipal bus more than 3,000 feet into the mine. just to make that incline at todays cost - would probably be more than 100mil? http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=55673753