I don't know how fast it will happen. Based on past history (Diamond Fileds). The guys steering the ship at the major companies are very intelligent fellows but speed is not one of their virtues. Granted they are all in there visiting the site and doing DD on everything they can and maybe putting pffers accross but the door hasn't bee shut yet otherwise we'd have a deal?

Friedland and Co would love a piece of it to which is nice but he's not the type of guy that can help us get up to the next level. A major has the resources (Geo's, equipment, manpower, know how etc) to help expedite the roject along.

Your right about the juniors which were not a problem at VB because Diamond Fields had a 20klm sq area claimed then added a 1/2 million acres later on. So the majors didn't have to worry about juniors hitting another deposit.

So what are they going to do with all of these pesky juniors? Big question hey, have they been accumulating shares? Wouldn't look good if they signed up with NOT and then have a junior make another big discovery that could have been picked up for much lower$. So that must be in the back of the minds of all the CEO's out there, must be sweating out this possibility as did INCO when Cartaway hit Nickel north of VB after they did the deal with INCO. Of course it was a dud but these juniors are in Nickel country and there are a lot of VMS targets to be drilled.

Going to be a great 2008 for all of these stocks. Incidentaly my post regarding MJ got a bunch of votes so please stop posting about himand just ignore him. Why give him credability. Many other members here agree with me so please give it a rest.

Oz