RE: Again I Say I think we need a measure of pragmatism though...we have 150M due in just over a month, management has shown they cannot turn EZ around. However, we have an extremely strong asset MWS. I completely agree, anything under 100M is an insult, but I would be willing to accept anything over 100M on the basis that it allows us to become a profitable gold junior. And I promise you that if we manage to sell EZ for over 100M, settle the 2012 debt with the proceeds/refinance the remaining amount, we will trade right around a dollar.
This should be simple for management. There is a new bid, and given the initial was 70M the counter bid from the Russian/SA group must be around 100M. Accept it, give Gold One 5 days to counter, if they counter higher than the Russian/SA allow them the chance to counter again etc. etc. When's all's said and down, we should have minimum 100M, and if Gold One counters once, substantially more. Settle the 2012 debt/refinance the remaining debt, move on. Tell AngloGold to shove their offer because we have no need to sell MWS for pennies on the dollar, so unless there willing to increase their bid substantially (I'm talking about 200M+), we keep MWS. I am more than willing to sell EZ at a fair discount if it means that we become a profitable gold junior in the long run.
If management cannot follow through on such a simple plan it will be because they are in AngloGold's pocket...but I do not see how they can get around the new bid. It is clearly from a legitimate source, the Waterpan Group previously owned 10% of EZ, and that was in 2007, when FIU was trading over $10.00.