The thousands of old Russian and Chinese rigs, many deteriorating with age, told you something big was going on here, and as you go over the hill and see another valley with more ditches full of oil and evermore old rigs....if the financial world recovered something big was going to happen here.

The financial world recovered and BNK one of our favorite stories was a ten bagger that we wrote up frequently and we have fond memories of. Also, while there we had time to see the huge land holdings of Tirex Resources  (TSX-V: TXX) , the Copper play that had 5 or 6 old prison camps/mining operations that suggested something was happening there as well, but TXX has had some bumps, but now looks like they have done some creative deals and are looking interesting again.