I'm just a layman but sometimes even we see things....

It seems strange to me that as we sit at $6.37 with an accepted deal in hand valued at <cough> $8.20 <cough>

we have approximately 15,000,000 shares shorted between ARU/AUREF

why would 'someone' short a stock in this scenario?

unless of course you knew you were receiving a windfall...like maybe a 15,000,000 share PP at say $4.75 to cover those shorts?

and can we find out WHEN those shares were shorted?

are they legitimate shorts or naked shorts?

could it have been back as far as when we were in talks with Kinross about a takeover between $8 and $10? or was it when management was selling their shares?

that's surely a scenario we the retail guy could only dream of:

shorting the stock at it's highest, and covering with a gift at the very bottom, then riding it up to the eventual take out price at it's highest again...a triple crown...again, only a dream for us retails

wow, wish I had that kind of 'luck'

Why would 'someone' not short ARU on the TSX for 15,000,000? Why 'hide' them in AUREF? Because people probably wouldn't pay that much attention to AUREF? It took us a while to notice it.

Pehaps the OSC can't do anything with an AUREF questions??? Would that be the SEC's jurisdiction?

Just things that make you go hmmmmm....

safeharbour