RE:96 stock priceI do not know about 1996 but if you look at this : https://americanmanganeseinc.com/properties-2/artillery-peak/ you can see the progress they were making.
I first bought shares 02/14/2012 for 40 cents US.
On Sept 12, 2012 – BCSC reviews pre-feasibility and company amends report to 3 year trailing average price of EMM rending the EMM project uneconomical.
The stock crashed.
The price got down to a penny in 2015 because the EMM project was dead. I started buying at a penny as AMY still had all their assects they had before the project started and I thought that was at least worth a penny.
Now the project is back, we have method to recycle batteries and will soon have a mining company we will all get stock in.