RE: RE: The irony One would have to be very inexperienced in investing in junior exploration companies to assume the Brent one shoe fits all charting approach to the forward life cycle of any going concern can be applied to all juniors.
The Brent chart is better suited to those companies that spark little interest at the best of times not headed toward imminent movements on a large scale and those of little real going concern going forward. MAT on the other hand does not fit into the Brent charting mode in the least. It could be said of MAT if you try to make comparisons at all to the Brent model that the speculative rise of discovery through feasibility clear through the development phase all run parallel to one another avoiding a protracted lull or orphan period as they refer to it.
Mat has too much going on to be painted with the same brush that Brent uses and applies to insignificant juniors.
As I've recently said, next month we see the pilot facility arrangement with SGS come about meaning not only separation process results on a large scale that will be forthcoming , but assays from the 2012 drill plan returned within a week of being sent in to more than compliment the 2012 drilling campaign on the MAT/Zeus property.
This in itself alone is going to have a noticeable effect on the sp throughout 2012 and beyond as each aspect of the process unfolds individually.
An updated resource estimate, feasibility study and what is next to certain, the jv with Toyota Tshuto by June will see the sp do anything but sit dormant before and after the big announcement and beyond.