Takeovers and Confidentiality Generally within the sector and you are a Junior, you have any interested party sign a confidentiality agreement and "Generally" within that agreement you have them sign a 2 year agreement to not make a hostile run on you. That does not mean they can't put forth an offer, they just can't make it hostile. These agreements are great from the standpoint that it allows you to continue your resource drilling, hopefully adding oz's to the scale, and hopefully upping your price. Management will need to evaluate the best time to pull the trigger, but the good news is this agreement should be in place for at least Oceanus and Gold corp. I would imagine that Newmont has also been doing DD and has signed an agreemnt too... Just my guess.