I would bet management was blindsided by this as much as the regular shareholder. Announcement from management to say what, we're in a shit storm. Everyone's individual decision to stay or go, the blue sky certainly got grey all of a sudden.

Correa and crew have definitely snuffed the life out of exploration upside. Although we still have 14- 18 m ozs. of gold in the ground the payoff just got a lot farther away.

Someone put a gun to Correa's head or is someone after a lot of mining shares in Ecuador.