"If you go to google finance and type in NOT ticker symbol and look at the total history of the stock you will see that in 2007 and 2008 the stock bolted up to $7 or slightly below. I was not paying attention in those days but I imagine it was the initial announcement re the discovery."

Yes I was there at the time. I bought my shares at .68 or so and rode it right on up. This was in the time before the financial melt down and the stock market was still functioning in a way people understood. The move to $7 was a response to the Voisey's Bay type of rich find but quite quickly made it's way back down when subsequent holes didn't continue to reward. Then the markets began the dive from the fallout of the "big short" and NOT has been sucking mud ever since with subsequent damage from spooking people with FN issues and swamp land descriptions from those that "championed" NOT.