rek,

I, too became a shareholder on August 15th (after reading Bob Moriarty's editorial that day).

As to your good question why no one else at this paid seminar crowd seemed to know anything about Novo, I can only guess that:

1) They are not readers of Bob's 321gold.com

2) Besides 321gold.com, Bob's recent interview in The Gold Report, and The Northern Miner article, there doesn't seem to be much if any info out there about Novo and what it is doing

3) Novo and Quinton, for whatever reason, have not gone out of their way to promote Novo (Novo did not have a booth at this conference in San Fran, for example)

4) Novo did have a booth at the Money & Mines conference in Australia back in October and perhaps if this paid seminar had been held in Australia (or Canada, for that matter) the audience would be more familiar with Novo

Regarding the lack of promotion, I can only guess that maybe Quinton does not feel ready yet to make a splash. Bob definitely feels otherwise and you probably remembered that Bob even wrote in his August 27th editorial: "I love Quinton like a brother but he's being a wuss" for still using the term paleoplacer to describe their deposit.

I wrote to Leo Karabelas back in September asking about the use of paleoplacer, too, and Leo wrote back saying: "Quinton still refers to these as paleoplacers sometimes so it does not cause people in the analyst community to wonder what this is. Basically, there is not yet a conventional term for this model."

I can only surmise that Quinton is waiting for more drill results to roll in before he makes the splash. Here's hoping that coming results from Beatons Creek and Marble Bar will be spectacular and make us all happy.