ARU is a company maker and patience will be rewarded. Wes

FWIW, I originally argued this point as a tactic to lend support to management's apparent decision to build a mine, but today I'm totally in support of it. I feel very let down now that I see they never intended to do this. What utter lack of vision. What an affront to the people of Ecuador who made this whole thing possible.

As I've said, a company maker, and a chance to get in tight for the future development of Ecuadorean mining, regardless of how the politics play out. These people are our friends. You don't pick sides in disagreements between friends. Is this not the Canadian way?

And as I've said elsewhere: what political risk? That's just a scare bunny. I figure by this point I know Ecuador as well as anyone else in this play and I laugh derisively Mogambo style at thier so-called political risk. It's disingenous and dishonest in the extreme to wave it under our noses when we absolutely know better.

The way I see it, the only risk to us now is coming from management.

ebear