Thanks for that input, explorationguy. If we were all AUMN shareholders and knew nothing about ECU, there would be more reason for skepticism, hands down. Their shareholders feel they have the goods and the cash to develop them. We feel that we have the goods, but ECU is hamstrung by lack of cash. Shoot, as an AUMN shareholder, I'd be thinking, "why in the world do we need a cash poor explorer - they will drain our cash from our own great prospects."

So, again, it leads me to the conclusion that AUMN must agree with us, that is, that ECU has the goods (maybe even better and more goods than has AUMN at this time) and with the addition of large amounts of cash, the ECU goods will yield significant rewards.