heh, ctown got his own thread made about him now lol. His point in The myth of mining is very true from that point of view.

If i spend 10k on picks and 4 hours mining, and i get say 15k worth of usable mets (off the wall numbers, not accurate) Technicly yes you will have made out without loseing any overall money.

However you could have used that 4h to do something more productive, and bring in 200k instead. Use that money to get your mets, and your left with a ton left over.

Same amount of time on each scenerio, but one yeilds a lot better results.