We hold these truths to be self-evident - that our resource sector seems to be coming out of the deepest trough in which we've ever seen it, that exploration and development should attract increasing capital over the coming years, that speculation opportunities will abound ..... this will mean old people coming back to the juniors, and new people getting attracted as well ... so what can we say to somebody like Peach, coming as she does from tech-stock speculation ... we want her first experiences to be pleasant and lucrative ... we all use little metrics, valuation techniques and red-flag recognition hints, without thinking too deeply about them because they were ingrained long ago through bitter experience .... but in summer, with lots of time to think about it, we should be able to think out and type in the points we each find the most helpful ... eh?