RE:RE:RE:RE:I was wrong....Robert Friedland of then Ivanhoe Mines in Mongolia, now Turquoise Hill, used to own 10% of the shares in the company. Everybody said when the stock dropped from $28 to $20 Robert would no way sell. In actual fact he did with a lot of it in the $8 range. No need to elaborate how that effected the share price. Last I heard he still owns roughly 3%. Never assume anything when it comes to sweet offers made to high ranking execs. If a stink bid was made by a multi national for the majority of TLT shares to then take it private and make Roger the head of it's PDT division, I sure wouldn't bet against Roger accepting it. I've seen it happen too many times in the past where small cap management and BOD's look after number one to doubt that it could happen. I don't believe TLT even has an existing shareholders rights manifesto in place so what does that tell you?