Consolidation in Mining Industry ..is inevitable. It's likely much cheaper to buy an existing permitted operation than start one from scratch (especially in the 3rd world). Will HBM be prey or predator? Who knows, and I sure am not going to take anonymous poster rumours on the BBs as any indication as to what is happening with HBM!
I think we can be about 90% confident that prior ot the end of 2006 that HBM will not exist in its current form ...whether it 1)merges, 2)does a TO and gets bigger or 3)gets taken out .... I guess we just sit back and wait and see.