RE:Are Vulcan Minerals and Atlas Salt Facing A Bad Omen? And over the last year both of them have hit new highs.
They are speculative stocks. They are going to have massive price swings based on news, profit taking, and lack of news, as well as people playing the charts, shorting and profit taking.
Until either entity produces something, price swings like this aren't an omen, or indicative of anything other than the market trying to set baseline values.