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[Rookster]

Morning Dave

 

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[bill from lachine]

Good morning to the crew.

 

[pepperj]

Morning Rook, Arc, Bill, RTR, Dave

Kind of fell down the Henry Morgan rabbit hole after reading the Capt. took 5-6 shares that of what a crew member got.
Greedy?

 

[Rookster]

Morning bill

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Good morning ARC, Jim, Bill, Rook and Roger.

 

[Blak bart]

im awake...im awake...I swear I am !!

 

[bill from lachine]

Morning Rook, Arc, Bill, RTR, Dave

Kind of fell down the Henry Morgan rabbit hole after reading the Capt. took 5-6 shares that of what a crew member got.
Greedy?

Jim, Pretty much the same set up as big business....the peons like me would get 3 or 4% bonuses come yearend and the VP's would get 25% based on the much fatter base pay. So the spreads were more like 20/25 to 1.

 

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[Blak bart]

Gemfields finds largest emerald ever at Zambia mine

The 7,525-carat gemstone was named Chipembele, which means “rhino” in the local dialect of Bemba.

www.mining.com

 

[bill from lachine]

Katie Melua-I will be there.

 

[pepperj]

Jim, Pretty much the same set up as big business....the peons like me would get 3 or 4% bonuses come yearend and the VP's would get 25% based on the much fatter base pay. So the spreads were more like 20/25 to 1.

It's no wonder you have a stamp collection now-on 10M in sales a year.

 

[pepperj]

Gemfields finds largest emerald ever at Zambia mine

The 7,525-carat gemstone was named Chipembele, which means “rhino” in the local dialect of Bemba.

www.mining.com

That's one huge emerald.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Off to work now... if you have a chance, please check out my latest 'finds' post.

October’s Finds – The Clean Up!

I detected three times on three different sites in October and unfortunately I didn’t find much. :dontknow: Some of my more interesting finds were a bone-handled fork (broken). I wish the fork had been more complete, but at least it's an early 3-tine design. It wasn't until the late 1600s and...

www.treasurenet.com

Hope everyone has a great day!

 

[Rookster]

Morning bart. How’s the weather down there today?

 

[billb]

Good Morning Tnet Crew..
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[RTR]

Gemfields finds largest emerald ever at Zambia mine

The 7,525-carat gemstone was named Chipembele, which means “rhino” in the local dialect of Bemba.

www.mining.com

Wow ,what a beauty !

 

[billb]

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[RTR]

Looking at 75 degrees here this afternoon

 

[releventchair]

Mornin all.

 

[billb]

Good Morning Tnet Crew..
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Incredible weather so far up here in November..we had a first frost last week where years ago it would happen in September