Yawn, i don't think it's "suspicious" at all... Just something to fill the "news void" as everyone awaits the pre-feasibility study and news on Kemetco's work on EMD/LMD, etc. etc.
We shareholders were getting spoiled around here the past 9 months or so with almost weekly or semi-weekly news releases on drilling results and interviews by various folks with CEO Larry.
It's been kind of a "dry spell" since the great pilot plant news in late September and several interviews in the immediate aftermath of that.
Yeah, i agree that the "mere drawing-board" nature of that Ames co. plan to use manganese for magnets is largely irrelevant for the company at this point, but once in a while Connie at IR (and perhaps Larry or someone above her) likes to throw out some general news pertaining to the various actual and possible uses of Mn.
I wouldn't read too much into it....