As a shareholder like everyone else I want a great deal nowbut it is a buyers market, more so in minerals than oil, but there is not alot of money being thrown around the resouce sector. This probably means that the options were to make a crappy deal in the spring (and maybe even now) or stick to your guns, wait and get an okay deal.
Given those options I'll take the wait and get an okay deal. If I thought management was incompent or lazy I would not be waiting.