in not so many words:

Hey, thanks for all those options and cheap stock I was able to accumulate early thanks to the largesse of retail. When times were good and promising, I used the old proverbial hook that we needed those options to keep, retain and employ the best management as the war chest coffers were needed for exploration instead of salaries.

So I'm sitting on a large slug of stock, and when a payday comes around, I've got to grab the brass ring. I'm getting a bit long in the tooth and I need to cash out. A significant strike of merit only comes around perhaps only once in a miner's lifetime, and I'm getting too old for the travel, winter drilling and sleeping on cots when I visit the base camps. My old bones need, no, require the temperate climes of the bahamas.

I know there are many things that occured during the process that you were not privy too, but thats allright, it worked out good (for me at least) in the end. Chump change and beer money for you-a significant payday and comfortable retirement for me. That's how it works. But don't feel bad, no one else really wanted the deposits either or they would have steped up to the plate.

So again retail, thanks. I couldn't have done it without you.