Totally agree. The veins found so far were found mostly by following surface shows. No telling what could be found by modern methods. I'd especially like to see what's at the intersections of some of those veins.

As far as a buyback, I'm not sure it has anything to do with a buyout. It's something PQ has said he would do all along. The fact that he's doing it now means that they sure aren't strapped for cash. It will raise the share price, since those shares would disappear, which would help in any buyout. But I'm not sure any buyout is in the works- at leastone that would be completed any time soon. I don't remember seeing any buyouts for even double the current price of a stock, much less the 10-20x multiples being talked about. I think PQ will wait until the sp is much higher and enough drilling and exploration has been done to give them a better idea of just how big this is.