RE:RE:Echo.....Greetings fellow POM investors#ch1nmuzak My understanding is that FINAL permits are yet to come subject to a remaining public forum period per this last week's PR in which POM said it's NorthMet draft permit had been released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Note an "approved permit" would allow POM to construct & operate NorthMet copper/nickel/precious metal mine (under the DNR's conditions). That's when the shares of which you speak will be granted subject to that final permitting, so no, not yet. And they will extinguish the commensurate value of debt. I imagine the conversation price of which you speak ($1.27?) would also have seemed somewhat high (ie: expensive) at the time when POM was half the price it is today (or less?). Personally, I don't have a problem with Management financing their project in this way given it (has) further reduced risk and eventual Mine permitting and construction. These are my views only. Thanks for reading.