The plot sickens! I don't suppose that this has anything to do with the recent price weakness in our new gold stock:

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 19, 2012) -Argonaut Gold Inc. (the "Company") (AR.TO) has received inquiries regarding recent insider trading reports filed by members of senior management. The Company has been advised that certain members of management have engaged in trading their shares for personal tax planning purposes prior to the end of the calendar year. The Company also understands that no member of senior management has any present intention to materially change his overall equity interest in the Company.

Tax planning or walking the plank to escape the sinking ship? Hopefully the former but I am way past being old enough to be highly suspicious of any insider selling particularly when the news is purportedly so wonderous and Christmasy.

Doc