waxweazle, you wrote,

"Doesn't mean no holes have been poked here, shouldn't be too hard to drill a hole, see the visuals, and subsequently let this hole disappear because it better fits Noront's strategic intentions."

Last spring a friend of mine was telling me about a field geologist friend of his, who I know. Apparently they were drilling and came across some mineralization. When the CEO/BOD learned of it, the project was stopped. Now because this is a friend of a friend I chose not to pry. With your comment and some of the things I see happening within the ROF there is no doubt we retailers are the last to know. If I were to speculate on my friends, friends Company, I would suggest some insiders needed to buy or issue themselves some more shares/options before this material information was to be released. It sucks but it is the way some things just are.