Here is the next part of our dialogue.
My Comment to Marla:
Thanks Marla, yes I agree with what you say but don’t you think it would be very positive for shareholders for the Ecuadorian government to make a public comment specific to Aurelian as it did with Corriente and Iamgold?
Answer
We feel your pain, trust me. We need to be careful with the timing and what we say until things are finalized. As soon as we can comment on it in detail, we will. In both Corriente’s and IAMGOLD’s cases they had their reasons that they had to come out and comment on concessions Corriente’s status has been uncertain for the past year since a stop-work order was issued on their Mirador project and, to their credit, they have recently made very good steps in improving their situation; IAMGOLD had to press release their news because they were giving up concessions and that was being widely reported in Ecuador and certainly material to the company.
