excellent summary. thank you.
"Pages 38-39:
Confidential agreement #1 Feb 21, 2006 (before major discovery)
Confidential Agreement #2 Oct 19, 2007 (stock was at $8.75) and within 10 days spiked to over $10.00 on higher than usual volume.
Monday Nov 5th 2007 : access to data Room (previous Friday Closing price $10.11)
Apriol 18, 2008 : Mining Mandate Suspension Shares drop to a low of $3.05 next day.
May 6, 2008 Managment of ARU are in support on Kinross to explore a possible transaction Stock is at $4.07 and two days later is $4.77 on two 1 million+ share trading days.
June 11, 2008 Possible joint venture discussed - no agreement
June 25, 2008 Kinross asks for exclusive period to negotiate a deal. 2 large volume trading days occur with price rising 10% to from $4.97 to $5.58 ........accumulation???
June 30th Patrick Anderson grant exclusiveity
July 7-11 Kinross team visits deposit
July 16-19 Transaction negotiated including the 15 million underwriting. They knew we had a graet deposit at that point and win or lose the takeover wanted a big slice of it.
July 19th ARU makes Kinross sign an agreement to support a rival bib an vote those NEW shares to the rival bid if it is deemed to be superior.
July 23rd Both companies met with officials in Ecudor
July 24th Deal announced.
It seems to me that Kinross had way more information than the average shareholder and possibly more than the directors!! They want my shares, then pay me at least a 50% premium to your first confidentially agreement of about $15.00 CASH.
DONT TENDER>>>>>>>BRING ON THE RIVAL BID MONDAY MORNING..."