RE:Stock manipulation I see no indication of manipulation. Today is the 3rd consecutive day of less than a million in trading volume. That comes on the coat tails of 27 consecutives days of trading over a million per day, including the >19 million trading of 11 days ago. Manipulation is normally accompanied by volume, not lack of volume.
Nobody is happy about this 4 week period of "drifting", but it seems to me that the company is tending to their mining business for the moment, and allowing shareholders to do what they want.
Those who believe the potential of the "growth" scenario probably continue to hold; those who want to day trade and a constant "pump" may decide to sell.
Today's net sells were once again dominated by TD, same as last friday's. TD is home to a lot of accounts, but not generally the major players.
These mining stocks are often volatile, and anyone who can't accept volatility can drive themselves batty, maybe even manic depressive.
Luckily, these markets are also "democratic", in that we can also press the button A or button B (buy or sell).