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re: a guessing competition - with one winner I've been travelling for a while, so a couple of quick points on the way past:

- the last trade noted in London was 100,000 at 0.14 equivalent, but the Aussie market is down to 0.115 on the customary negligible volume. Bearing in mind the Egyptian's recent claim that GIP's tantalum related deposits were potentially worth billions, I wonder if anyone knows of a bigger discrepancy between market cap. and likely revenues in the Oz market? Better still, can anyone find another company which is likely to be number two or even one in its field in the not too distant future, with a market cap less than GIP's (under $20 million)?

- scarva's Egyptian announcements are interesting. There are a lot of errors, but the guts of it is that the Egyptians are making friends with their near neighbours and have bigger plans than just GIP's previously advertised operations. Whether GIP gets even more of the action in the plans for increased expansion, handouts and co-processing with neighbours remains to be seen, but the Egyptians are very keen to make a lot of molehills out of mountains (pun intended). Whatever the outcome, they seem to be repeating their previous comments about the tantalum operations kicking into action after July next year and that SGW will not be the dominant player. It's almost as if they know something we don't about the major upcoming world bank etc meetings, Oz administrator debt issues etc. We watch with interest ... all half dozen or us that are left here.;-)