JMO1. If DD did now want PE around, PE would not be around. You can't convince me of anything different.
2. Correct me if I am wrong, but it takes 90% of the votes to sell a company, and that includes taking it private (or so I think.) Does anyone really think that DD can get 90% of the votes? Do you really think that all those institutional investors are going to toe DD's line? I don't. But I am willing to be corrected on the 90% requirement.
3. All of this has absolutely nothing to do with what is in the ground at the mine, or how much it will sell for. And those two things are all that really counts.