Shame. Xstrat is selling out the Timmins mine. Where is this economy taking us. Your right Cannonballs regarding the "smell". I'm thinking skunk as we speak. We have the goods and Freewest has the goods. The US companies still think they can come in a drop a few pence and grab up our vast resources. Our governement sometimes appears to collude with the US government to let this happen (probably don't but what the heck they wasted how many health care dollars again??!!). I'm hoping the Freewest shareholders know this is going on (which with Donypee and Hoov there amoungs other talented and knowledgeable forum members I can't see them not knowing it) and that they will simply move to push Cliffs to the next level before moving over to the NOT side.

There are three things I would love to see here by the time this storybook ending comes to fruitation:

1. All Canadian companies running a gigantic Canadian mining community,

2. The American companies drooling over missed opportunities to ravish our countries resources again as they have in the past; and

3, All of those investors who have held their trust in NOT and other ROF companies become rich for all the right reasons (those being items 1 and 2 above).

I think I said enough on this.

Mustangman