Hello there & welcome to the board. No doubt your friends have a point, in any investing, things can go sideways in a hurry. If anyone has invested any money, that allows them not to sleep at night, then it's too much!

However, there has been thousands of hour of research, DD, conversation, posting, etc with this stock. AGM, meetings, and many B&B's.

My advice to you, is this weekend, go through the new website, and go through our Agoracom Link Library. If nothing else, go through this post, that I will provide a link to, done by Hogtown, because this post is absolutely priceless, IMO:

DD - Connections and Correlations to known Gold Mineralization

This is a series of illustrations showing the connections and correlation of assay samples and underground workings to known Gold mineralization.