Maroon - if you wait for a signal from the "Investing World or Mining Industry" you may miss the boat my friend. The objective here as an explorer was certainly to sell to an end user, however, seeing what has happened in the last year may change management's objectives. Who Knows? I doubt ISM will ever mine this thing, but we may do a JV? Again, who knows?

Have you researched the past institutional coverage of ISM at all? If the 43-101 comes out detailing a substantial economically mineable lode/load of nickel with additional PGE's, I would suspect the institutions would sit up and notice, not that they have not already. I would not wait to establish my position in ISM after the institutional world has IMHO.

Not sure what you mean with "I believe, you would then agree, that all that is " Known " is reflected in the stock price after the complete 43-101 is made public ? I don't think enough is known at this point to determine what the stock price will be after the release of the 43-101, but I also don't know if after the release of the 43-101 if all the "known" will be priced in either. We may be sitting on an asset that may be worth a zillion dollars, but if there are no willing buyers its still worth zilch. Hopefully thats where clarus can help.

Don't know why you wonder if nickel oxidizes, but it most certainly does.......

FP