we also need to note that the Ring of Fire can have many economic zones of chromite and other minerals.

If you get 4 chromite producers all maximizing their production you will push the price of chromite through the floor and no-one will make any $$.

Thus a winning strategy is to create an umbrella structure so that all the scattered companies can get together under one umbrella, so to speak. That will allow them to withstand any forcing moves to pick them off one at a time on the cheap. It seems quite apparent that Freewest and Noront seems to have found an elephant.

White Pine Resources also has a good property position and they may become a player once their exploration commences this spring (time?)