You said: What they couldn't tell me, was on what authority this was done. My reading of the K offer and the CBCA made it seem clear that there would be an Offeror's Notice by registered mail and 20 days to dissent. I feel blindsided by the lack of warning that there was a process other than the one described in these documents.

Orange Flash, Kinross having successfully recvd over 90% of ARU from those that Tendered to their Offer, proceeded and obtained legal Authority to force conversion of the balance o/s. As such K is presumably in the process of gathering the ARU shs from the Dealers.

Your shs, it appears, are being held by your Brokerage firm in "Street Name" meaning any Broker's name is on the Certs, u therefore won't recv the "Registered" letter.

Had your shs been held by you or your Brokerage firm in Registered form - meaning your shs are registered with the Transfer Agent in your name, then you would have recvd the Registered letter.

If it's your wish to go fwd and proceed with a Court Case as a Dissenting Shareholder, your Broker has to know.

Ph your Broker tomorrow and advise them of your intention. They'll Fax you the form letter you are to complete to formally Declare yourself as a Dissenting Shareholder.

You don't have to have your ARU shs in your hand to do so. Your shs were taken from you legally. That doesn't mean you can't file as a Dissenting shareholder. Your Acct's Security Position is proof u were an ARU Shareholder and Kinross shs replaced them under the Offer.

Think carefully of the financial and personal involvement of hiring a Lawyer and Court Costs before u go fwd as a Dissenting Shareholder all by yourself.

We had a "legal team" formed that looked into the pros and cons of a Case against Kinross. They reported that the Geologist they hired, couldn't find anything additional in the holes that were reported.

IMO a Judge is very likely to say the offer is considered Fair considering over 90% of the Shareholders Tendered their shs. Had we been able to hold K to under 90%, then the results would be entirely different and all those that withheld their ARU shs would be Declaring ourselves as Dissenting Shareholders. Unfortunately we didn't succeed in our effort to do so.

When I say filing alone, as one individual vs many as a group, that's not to say Fearless isn't going to Dissent as he says he is going to do so but is he going to join you? Is anyone going to join with you?

If u do organize a Group, will it be large enough? Are u all resident of the same Province? Can u file as one, or will each one have to file individually in the Province in which they reside?

Fearless has well over 300,000 shs or so I think that's the figure I read, I'm rather presuming he has the finances at his disposal to do anything he desires. Have you?

Personally I wouldn't consider Filing a Dissent - on my own - unless I owned about 100,000 shs. As a Group any of us, no matter what amt we owned, could have shared the costs and joined together and presented the reasons for our opinion in an attempt to get a better return on our investment than that which we received.

Don't let what I say disillusion you. You have to live with your decisions same as picking a Spouse or, more important, LOL purchasing a stock - u win some u lose some but it only affects you.

GL in your endeavours whatever u decide to do.