Good insights. All of which logically is a plus for NOT (all other things equal) assuming we prove up an economic resource. Why ? A double whammy of Sudbury adding huge Ni supply at a labor cost that is uncompetitive long term, (especially for any mining activity at McFaulds) is reduced or eliminated. More likely, they will settle somewhere as Ni prices strengthen. Part of what can potentially be motivating a producer such as Vale is the reality of 200,000 underemployed tort lawyers in the US scrambling for the most obscure opportunities to launch costly price fixing suits against resource producers. If you have not noticed in the last fifty years, an American tendency is to see resource producers as a bunch of bandits living off the avails of American capital and technology. That makes North American operations for many resources particularly vulnerable to attack when they are curtailed, so take the opportunity while other business imperatives for closure are most evident. More importantly, that is another reason we should like the Cr resource so much, an outfit like CLF for example may well be able to contract most it into offshore markets. That will be the perfect situation for RoF development. Of course this is all pure speculation, but I can't see Vale being anti-worker or anti-union. Hopefully for the folks in Sud, things will get back to normal fairly quickly. For NOT investors, its all positive.