I'll agree that Noront has the lead but race not over by a long shot. It makes it interesting to investors because there are a number of players with claims close enough to Noront's DE 1 that they could find a similar or larger deposit.

Noront and BMK have a lot of their shares held by, for want of a better word 'big boys' and they are in a position to jerk the share price one way or the other. FNC and Probe have a lot fewer shares out at this time so perhaps the same games can't be played, easily, with their share price.

So if there are games to be played I look for it to be done with BMK, Noront and maybe way down the scale even with SPQ.  So for a faster profit going in and out of these with the right timing could pay off nicely.

Noront has the cash for staying power and sufficient targets to keep excitement going for all of 2009 but if they don't find DE 2 witin a few months there share price is going to be under a lot of pressure as that market capitalization will look pretty rich without a bigger ore body.