".The ROF can not afford to lose this company ,because if they should throw up their arms and leave ,no one will come back in .It will be another 100 years before any one will go north offering this kind of prosperity"

Doubt it....

Owing to NOT and friends low profile of late, many are forgetting about Baosteel who could swallow CLF in a bite. Also NOT has demonstrated that they are prepared to go it alone...though they don't really have to with Bao. NOT recently has the new investor as well with the reputation of being involved in winners.

Lots of gut feelings, opinions, assumptions and ifs. All very enteresting for the interim but none of it validated as yet. It is unfortunate that so much of what will happen will have been based on things we'll never know about. Our intentions are to invest and to make money for the most part. The intentions of the other parties involved are a little more complex.