High River Gold Mines Ltd HRIVF

Treatment of profits (once debt free)

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In addition to allowing share price appreciation, this victory by minority shareholders ensures that Severstal cannot walk away with our profits.  They might be majority shareholders, but they can't just take our cash and leave us out in the cold.  The only way they can access HRG's cash is by declaring dividends.  Yes, that's right, they can't pull a fast one on us.  If they declare dividends then we must get a cut as well.  Each common share participates equally, no matter if held by a (fat cat) majority shareholder or a (kicked around and terribly abused) minority shareholder.

HRG will be a big time (free) cash machine (once the debt is paid down) - perfect timing as the gold price is expected to be over $1,000 over the next few years, once people become more fearful of inflation issues.  A lot of that cash will likely go into the development of Bissa and Prognoz.  However, our victory ensures that Severstal can't get their hands on that cash, without giving us a cut also (in the form of dividends).

If they had won, IMO, they would have gotten a company with $5 billion value potential (over the next 5 years) for virtually nothing.