I'm all for a buyout, too- at the right price. Since PQ et al. control enough shares to decide what happens, you know they aren't going to sell cheap and we can't be the victim of a hostile takeover. But in order to sell high, they have to do the things I mentioned before that, in addition to increasing the share price, will also get the attention of a major. Simply put, they have to demonstrate that WEM has the goods and that those goods can be removed economically. It won't take many results to confirm the historical riches of WEM, and if the grades are high enough the economics become very obvious.