I believe most of the McFaulds Lake area plays are still following on NOT's coattail. When NOT has weakness, they still follow. This trend will continue to one of these puppies drills and hits something of merit.

I also checked with a few much more in the know than myself on assays in lab. There is nothing illegal about a company leaving assay results in the hands of the lab until a certain amount of results are in. In fact many companies choose to go this route. They like to release results in batches. As long as a company hasn't been given results of any of these assays from various holes, absolutely nothing wrong with leaving them in labs hands.

Novak gave us big hint when he talked about #18. I will be suprised to see assays if #18 is  not included.

I don't believe for one second that the new EM surveys will hurt any of these plays. If the EM's looked promising in the 2003 survey, it couldn't possibly just get up and go away. The new survey can only improve on the old ones, as in better defining it. 

McFaulds Lake stocks aren't going away. These stocks will be in play for many, many months. My best advice to investors is to use these times of news vacuums and pick up your favourite stocks on the cheap. The only thing that will kill one of these stocks share price is if they drill and miss. These new EM surveys should lessen the risk of a company missing.  

Al