HIGH-GRADE NI-CU-PT-PD-ZN-CR-AU-V-TI DISCOVERIES IN THE "RING OF FIRE"

NI 43-101 Update (September 2012): 11.1 Mt @ 1.68% Ni, 0.87% Cu, 0.89 gpt Pt and 3.09 gpt Pd and 0.18 gpt Au (Proven & Probable Reserves) / 8.9 Mt @ 1.10% Ni, 1.14% Cu, 1.16 gpt Pt and 3.49 gpt Pd and 0.30 gpt Au (Inferred Resource)

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Message: Re: NOT INSIDER TRADES

Nov 05, 2007 06:25AM
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Nov 05, 2007 06:29AM

This is a repost to help with what this means in context.

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It all makes sense. It is as I suspected. He cashed in his options, and then sold 25% of those on the public market to pay himself. This is a much different animal then a simple reporter's statement that the director of a company sold 25% of his total shares. True in fact, but misleading.

Here are the relevant sales in chronolgical order:

Exercised his options. Bought for .75 each. This adds 200,000 shares to the 100,000 shares he owned originally. For a total of 300,000 shares.

sell - Novak, Neil Direct Ownerhsip Exercise of options Options Common Share .0 -200,000 - 100%
buy - Novak, Neil Direct Ownership Exercise of options Common Shares .75 200,000 >100%


Here he sells 100,000 of the 300,000 (33%) BUT THIS IS A PRIVATE TRANSACTION, not on the open market, so could be to a relative or some other entity. Notice that he sold for only .825. May be to cover his option payment and tax.
Now he has 200,000 left

sell - Novak, Neil Direct Ownership Disposition carried out privately - Common Shares .825 -100,000 -33%


Now he sells 50,000 of those converted options to take some money off the table. This is where he actually takes some cash. This amounts to 25% of the remaining 200,000 shares:

sell - Novak, Neil Direct Ownership Disposition in the public market - Common Shares 5.15 -50,000 -25%

So, what actually occurred, as I suspected, was that he converted his 200,000 options and sold, for personal gain, 50,000 of those options.

This is a very different picture to me, then a reporter's simple statement that a director sold 25% of his stake in his company.

No worries!


Nov 05, 2007 07:27AM
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