Esperanza has issued this news release:

http://www.epzresources.com/release.php?R_ID=244

Essentially, they saw more value in staying on as a partner than in the $20M plus 1.5% net smelter royalty buyout package.

Not sure that this means much, but it is positive in the sense that somebody sees the project as being valuable enough to stay pat in the face of the offer.