>>Is it your sense that the buyers here are many in number, or alternatively that there are just a few very interested buyers? Perhaps there is no way to determine that sort of thing?<<

Hard to say. I track time and sales each day, but can't readily save the info. Seems like more larger trades, though- which is even more significant in that each trade represents more money at triple the price of a week ago. Volume has been heavy the last week- 2-4x the daily average of ~700k, including over 3m shares a few days ago, so this is not a fluke runup on small volume. Of course, some of this volume could be traders taking profits- but I get the sense from the boards that there are a number of large holders (>1m shares) quite willing to scarf up more shares at even these prices. There are a lot of holders in this for the long term. There are also people waiting on the sidelines for developments like the OTCBB listing and mill startup to remove some of the uncertainty.