Long piece on CBC Newsworld talking about Ring of Fire and Cliff's announcement.

What is going on with this dog now? Getting old, but more dumping.

For what it's worth from SH:

"buy out talks behind closed doors,only a rumour but from a source that has been reliable in the past,no names given ,but the only suitor i can see is cliffs ,i don't think its Baosteel"

Curious why routine granting of options would convince you there is something going on? What's the logic?

"Some valid points and you may be right, but i don't think so. Yours is a level way to look at it but there is so much more to NOT than meets the eye. This is no ordinary stock and when it makes a move it is for a reason, particularly the move this one is making. It's the nuances in NOT's activities or lack of in the past which signal something else. We wait to see."

Who said something else isn't afoot? In fact the PR says something else very well may be afoot. You think we on this board are the only one's who can read? Yes this is an "ordinary stock", there is nothing special here. NOT has suffered from BORING the market to death recently, it will be years before any mine is developed, it lacked EXCITEMENT. I read the PR as providing that excitement. The very idea that we may have new promising targets on our hands, then all the speculation thereafter, is enough to move this stock, PARTICULARLY when we already have known resources, the downside risk is minimized. You are acting like we are at 3 bucks already when we started to move...

Why is everyone thinking NOT HAS to come out with a NR soon? We just had a PR, that showed 1) good results that expand existing resources 2) new TARGETS that could be promising on the NICKLE side. Everyone is interpretating the already released PR as indicative of a possible new hit, so that in and of itself is enough to raise a VERY UNDERVALUED company to a more respectable level. The last PR is all that was needed, it puts out HOPE and the market is responding. I'm not expecting any imminent PR now, nor do I think it is warranted by the uptick. We had news, news was good with some suggestion of more to come, plus we are ridiculously low to begin with, so we hardly need confirmation, it is what it is and people don't want to miss the train.