Noront is spending a lot of money and now drilling deep. The advantage to FNC is that the Geologists are gaining the kind of knowledge of deposit types and feeders etc. that are critical to successfully finding mineralization.

In fact Noront's last releases should, but probably won't, increase confidence that FNC has a good chance of having some economic mineralization. They've proven these deposits occur over wide area so Probe, FNC, FWR, SPQ, BMK etc. all could have what it takes to make a mine. No one company has a lock on things although size of claims held becomes important.