E-Power Resources Inc (CSE:EPR, FSE:8RO)

A large fund told me in August that they could not buy our stock. Not that they did not want to. That they were not allowed. Their rule is simple. No mineral resource estimate, no investment. It does not matter how good the drilling looks. They were not the only one. There are serious investors who have followed Nisk and Lion for two years, who know the geology better than most of our shareholders, and who could not put a dollar in. The project had not reached the point where their own process would let them evaluate it. That is what an estimate actually is. Not a marketing document. An access document. It takes a pile of drill results, which only a geologist can read, and turns them into something an independent qualified person will sign and a fund's investment committee will accept. Tonnes, grade, confidence category, cut-off. The same shape as every other project they look at. So now they can run their own numbers instead of taking mine. Some of them will do that work and pass. That is fine. What I could not do was keep asking people to back a story when their own rules would not let them read it. The tonnage came in lower than we wanted. The door still opened.