That bad smell coming from Carriage Hills

The stench known as Taranis (aka Taranis Ore Ass Rex) located on Conifer Drive is up to their "pump and dump" tricks again. Whenever you see an over-the-counter penny stock traded in America with supposed mineral riches somewhere in distant Canada, you can bet your bottom dollar (as Taranis hopes you do) there is nothing in the ground at either site. Taranis is headquartered [sic, if you define a modem and a Walmart printer as HQ] in Estes Park (lucky us), not exactly a hotbed of mining expertise, but if a retired guy has been chased out of three other communities and wants to work his scam out of Carriage Hills, who are we to interfere?
The various exotic descriptives ("Thor", "Thunder Zone", "The Tusk") for the supposed exploration site are written for the layman or the teenage video game enthusiast, with some actual or made-up technical terminology (porphyry, epithermal) thrown in, all of which pretty much translates to "bullshit, bullshit, bullshit". The only thing you need to know when reading any of the Taranis "press releases" is that the site has been studied for sixteen years. In the days of the Colorado gold rush, if prospectors hadn't found something in 16 days, there was nothing to be found, so they moved on. The only thing Taranis is mining in this section of British Columbia is stupid investors' money, the only things they are exploring include different ways to describe the same pink elephant, and trotting out the same "expert" dressed up in different battery-operated equipment. It costs about $1000/month to rent a Bobcat - The fact that Taranis keeps flying over this site instead of actually digging somewhere shows you how the money they are making off the poor suckers is actually being spent. I feel bad that anyone who gets hooked on this boiler room scam will associate Estes Park with scams. Of course, anyone who lives in Estes Park and buys the line that they somehow find themselves in a paradise created by our beneficient overlords is a victim of a different type of shell game, n'est-ce pas, Kirbee?

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