Brian, the only person that needs to answer to Brian is Brian himself. You're the one who pulled the trigger with your buy. Don't pose questions or place any level of responsibility on anyone but yourself.
You provide valid questions. Unfortunately, there may not be any one person on this message board who can provide you with the answers. Sounds like its time to get on the phones and internet and begin doing some D&D to get answers for yourself.
Hey if you really worried about a few million shares coming on the market to allow the company finance the mining of the 1.5 BILLION in reserves, sell - I'm a taker! Whats the current market cap around 1.5 million for the potential of 1.5 billion in assets... Please - thats a enormous difference in market cap...