You stated the following:

"It is likely that NOT would have waited as long as they could on this N.R. until they solved the problem and could issue it as an addendum to a more tasty announcement..... but ...... the shareholders just wouldn't let it sit and NOT had to release early so that they would avoid and accusations of improprieties. As a result, some investors lost a lot of money due to their fear and stupidity for not having sufficiently DD'd this stock and the demands of impatient shareholders."

To that I say the following:

First, the headline of the news was that it was an update

Second, the news of DE2 is now eight weeks old.....are you suggesting they have nothing in the pipe other than waiting for these drill results.....so now you turn this around like it is the fault of impatient shareholders....I don't buy that for one second

The distrubing thing about the release was not in what it said....it's what it didn't say....that was no update.....I would have expected something like the following:

Update: now drilled x number of holes at De2....visuals include blah blah blah....drilling another anomoly....showing promise....perhaps visuals....sent to lab....blah blah.....staked x more claims...new drill arriving.....new JV with partner x.....Airborne surveys showing the following....blah blah...management is very encouraged...and about the samples we are waiting for....quality control issues....being resolved....doesn't involve past samples.....will update shortly.....drilling continues....expected date of NI43-101

Now that would have been an update...the question for me is why they did not provide a real update and concentraded solely on the lab problem....

Whatever the reason, I'm sure that all of us as long time shareholders will benefit in the end....that is if we hold till then....too bad for the retail investors that were shaken off today...oh well, if they scare off that easily, it was just a matter of time before they got shaken...afterall, the game is really just beginning