ARU at its next AGM should consider implementing a stock option plan for its employees.

Instead of giving all the stock options they will be "giving" out at the next meeting to the five or ten board members, officers, or other "insiders" they should consider a plan where they can give some of these options to the employees who over the last three of four years have cleared the drill pads, carried the drills, drilled the holes, cleared the roads, built the drill camp, etc.

There are many forms of compensation that a company can do for their employees and stock ownership is one. Two of the major plans in the US that go way back and were very successful for employees were the original Sears and Walmart plans ( the younger here might not remember how successful they were in the early days).

I know ARU could divert 100,000 to 200,000 options from their officers and directors ( who never exercise them until they sell them anyway) to the Ecuadorian employees . Most stock options given annual by a company are about 2 to 7% of the total stock outstanding which would be about 2 million to 8 million shares !!

None of the above has anything to do with the new releases but is something I think a responsible company should consider anyway.

Just my opinion......

hawnkoa....friend of former politician ebear and no friend of potato salad