FORTY-THREE days and counting

FREEWEST now has experienced the Fourth [ 4th ] bid since the Oct 6th inception of this CHROME FARM Auction. Like all good auctions it starts out with a lot of jostling as the first bids come in. The Friedland experience is fresh in all participants minds, and the bidders mostly likely would care to avoid such a repeat. The Sellers, the FREEWEST Stockholders on the other hand are savoring a return to the racetrack atmosphere surrounding the final days of that time.

FORTY-THREE [ 43 ] days and counting. The market will have its say, opening this morning at 88 cents, high of 89, taking into account this latest bid. The CHROME FARM is clearly the prize, and so far, as in the opening stages of any great auction, the prices are just starting to arc upwards. I think when this is over,
Sotheby's or Christy's will be envious they didnt get a piece of this.

The bidding seems to have drawn the typical Bay Street cast, as well as representatives from Main St., Wall Street, and we shall see, is there someone in the back from The CITY ? Lots of would be bidders, but with a minimum of FORTH-THREE [43 ] days to run, I seriously doubt that there are many savvy sellers yet. Lots of back room side action, but no one wants to sell too early which may cause some more movement in the shares. The game is on !

INFORMED & AWARE

are the terms I would apply to the most recent Poll Respondents.

Basically their choice for NEXT BIDDER in the "RING" would be Xstrata.

Of the respondents 74% were either NOT OPPOSED or undecided to holding a MAJOR's shares

In descending order of likliehood, the responders felt that KWG, then SPIDER, then NORONT, to get the NEXT BID.

As to stockholders, about 3/4 of the responders owned FREEWEST & NORONT.

Lots of unverified information flying around today about the "BIG THING", but as
informed and aware as savvy "RING" speculators and investors, the stock that seems to have been playing "Dark Horse" to FREEWEST has been PROBE MINES [PRB.v].

The chart shows Probe's movment and volume quite clearly, and the black dotted line is FREEWEST, and it is CLEAR that Probe is a perfect mimic or proxy for FREEWEST's movements. As a technical analyst, I cant say I know what to exactly make of it, except that for over two weeks, starting from about November 13th.

Even before Nov 13, PROBE has been giving off vibes that "something" is going on with it, and has been on radar probably since it started talking about doing RR in the Northern Ontario.

If you go to Probe's site you see at this link:

http://www.probemines.com/s/McFauld.asp

you get a view of Probe's property position and what is most striking is Probe's JV property with NOT between the FREEWEST Properties of BLACK LABEL, BLACK THOR and BIG DADDY Chrome properties. Reading the descriptions, we find PROBE fully involved in the "RING". That only partially explains the mimic or shadowing of FREEWEST's price. Much as I'd like to know more, I know someone out there knows. They are voting with their dollars. Actually not knowing helps me a lot more, forcing me to
concentrate more on the nuances and squiggles of each measure of each stock.

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