This is good Phockey.IMO, for us to even get included in that list at this time speaks something. At least for now we know one fund has to buy and this should show up around April 23. If we knew the required weighting we could make a guess on how many shares they would have to take up. As you mention, there may also be more funds compelled to buy also, this would be even better in regards to our sp. I seem to think that this came at a perfect time for these funds, with our ongoing drilling and mountains of results that could come at anytime.

The thing I don,t like, if a few of these guys get into our stock big enough, they may be able to influence it up or down, whereas they have the ability to short or go long. I have seen in the last couple of months, companies come out with good results only to get a senseless hammering. We didn,t escape it ourselves, but thankfully our shareholders were mostly retail and we were able to put up some resistance and hold the fort. If some big guys get in, and they are forced to redemption, if something goes wrong in the general market or what ever, this doesn,t help on maintaining a sp. We were/are our strongest as a widely spread out and individual share base, thats what maintained our strong sp right up to the point of the attack. Whoever hit us had a very hard time trying to get the sp down because they couldn,t find the shares to keep selling. They most likely had to naked short a few shares to get the ball rolling, then stepped it down by selling these shares back and forth to them selves to continue the down ward push as they scared other investors and triggered stop losses. Whoever was short have all but covered now, as is apparent in the recent short numbers of 440 shares. They most likely have accumulated a sizable position since then also.

Lori needs to get news out to us guys to maintain the shareholder base we have, the longer she waits, the more chances for more entities to enter the picture and can play with our sp. The shareholder type we have now are more apt to hold to the end unlike some funds, that get a quick double, sell, and buy, and try repeating the process. If our amount of safe shares are diminished to a point of lets say 50%, then a hostile offeror may be able to manipulate the sp enough to get the 66% required for a takeout. We have stayed here and supported this stock to get the maximum value along with Lori, but the longer this takes, the more chance for this to be jeopardized. We are fighting powerful forces in this market to maintain our present shareholder base and its becoming increasingly hard to keep the interest, with the lack of news. I have faith in Lori, whereas she knows better than any of us, just how strong we are, she can get the shareholder list every 2 weeks and monitor it closely for any major shifts that may signify we are getting weaker, at that time, if she feels compelled, she can release some news, to maintain that interest. Whereas Lori has not released any significant news, I am thinking that she knows we are holding our strength, as a matter of fact, she said at the Calgary presentation, that we ARE a strong company, and that is excellent.

If we still have about 60-70% of the shares in safe hands and maintain that, we are laughing and a hostile offer would be a joke. We all know here what we may have in 1 property let alone the other very prospective other Peruvian properties. I have a lot more to talk about in the lines of our valuation and the other prospects, but will so later on.

IMO