RE: why is this company so cheap?"Potential revenues notwithstanding, a lot of investor interest starts and stops with 500M shares outstanding"
I'd have to strongly agree with that comment. When I first looked at this company I was scared off by this. However I continued to watch and eventually bought in. It wasn't an easy decision though.
This company has all kinds of wonderful numbers as far as resource size, mine life, cost of mining, growth, future cash flow and the like, but all that is offset by the bad news share float.
I'm kind of hoping that down the road that when the company has good revenue flow that they look at some kind of some kind of significant share buyback program to trim things down a bit. That probably won't happen though.