"I'm wondering if management is thinking of releasing these assay results closer to the Prospectors conference in Toronto which is in early March. It will be hard to surpass the excitment NOT generated last year. But the Prospectors conference is a good opportunity for companies to promote themselves."

Here we go again... people attributing these arbitrary timelines to news releases. There is really no legitimate reason for holding news to release before a conference. The same suppositions were made last year to no fruition. Any material information still has to go through the proper channels and it's release will still be available for promoting purposes for any other disseminating occurrences that follow, whenever they follow. If you have 80m of 6% ni it doesn't matter if you introduce it tomorrow or the day before a convention, it will still be significant and material.