Below is the email I sent to IR, and their reply,

With the AUM/ECU merger, I became a Golden Minerals (Golden, AUM) shareholder. Since the merger announcement on June 24, the AUM share price has gone downhill from approximately $19 to a miserable price of $7.77 today, and with no end in sight.

So what has caused this greater than 50% decline, and how much discussion has gone on in the Golden boardroom on how to increase the price back to a level at least where it was when the merger was announced?

Was the merger a mistake? Is there less value in AUM now than before the merger? I don't think so to both. Does Golden pay attention to the amount of short selling going on, and if so, is it doing anything about it? Hmmm, it doesn't look like it.

I an really frustrated about the silence coming from the company. I know that it has only been a month since the merger, and one shouldn't expect miracles in a month. I was, however, impressed by your goals and seen in your recent presentations at the latest conferences that you attended. Why do you not issue a news release and tell the mining investment community what you are doing, and not just 50 or so people in a room? Then, shortly thereafter, wow that same community with drill results both from the Velardena and Chicago sites and the massive sulphides deep drilling program which must now be way overdue (this program was started about 3 months before any merger announcement. I know that that project has had problems - drill problems, drilling a mile underground to find what was already found before, etc, etc) These drill results, if they are up to expectations, would, I hope, get the shorters to cover, make investors sit up, and increase your market cap.