'I came into this stock as a short thinking $5.00 a share.'
You got to be kidding ... nah, shorts are smarter than that - this thing of which you speak has over four hundred millions shares fully diluted, so five bucks a share would be a market cap of over us$2,000,000,000.00
Good luck on that, lol ..... a lot of companies have large exploration properties, by the way ... and it means roughly dick, until they find something economic