No question but the 'Big Boys' have a history of messing with share price once their 'hold' period expires. While we have no idea how many shares 'Sprott' moved out at the $4 level it must have been enough to seriously affect the share price.
If anyone can prove that 'Sprott' was aware of preliminary 43-101 results they could be hung out to dry for using insider information. Personally can't see them proving it.
Would not be in the least surprised to hear they've bought back at these lower levels either. Let us 'retail' investors take the lumps they hand out. Commenting on Noront and a $2 price is rubbing salt and I hope all exploration companies take note of this behaviour.
Time for Dick Nemis to come out swinging a big club in the way of positive DE2 assay results or visuals. The sooner Noront comes up with another rich deposit the better for us all.