Perhaps it's my imagination but it seems like the NOT slamming is beginning to ramp up is it not? At least that is my perception. Some say that NOT is doing nothing but taking perks and giving nothing back to it's investors, an easy perception to have over the shorter term. It was said that NOT would take 5 years or so to develop into a mine way back in 2007 by a number of posters. Well here we are about 4 years later with a Chinese partner of sorts, a major in the area and Gov't all over this thing about developing the north and particularly the ROF. Have we made any money yet? Well unless you were good at getting in and out....no. If you decided to hunker down since 07 then you are probably going to see that 5 yr estimate achieve some kind of credence in NOTs sp development before too much longer...depending on what you bought in at...timimg is everything. NOT's history has been a little dirty at various points but not much in business isn't. If you were into making a fast buck with NOT and are still waiting for it then you needed to have taken instruction on investing in the market as there has been much opportunity over the last few years to really make some money. Hanging onto NOT was obviously not the thing to do and one's set of trading rules should have made that abundantly clear. There certainly are no guarantees of success and predictions are just that...predictions, but out of all of the gambles that one could take on, it is pretty clear that the ROF is going to deliver on a large scale. Some would have you believe otherwise and cast doubt. There are still many variables such as how much of what for whom and when. The latter will be revealed as the situation evolves, but with NOT holding the land mass they do, something is likely coming to those who hold a piece of it. The Chinese certainly think so. As usual....we wait to see.