This is actually good news to expedite white knight arrivalhttps://www.reuters.com/article/brief-nevsun-shareholder-mg-says-positiv/brief-nevsun-shareholder-mg-says-positively-inclined-to-takeover-proposal-idUSL1N1SF0ZJ
As Grandich noted, the institutions that heavy owned NSU will decide its faith, not management that owns "squat" (as Grandich put it).
Now that NSU management sees a key shareholder is open to a deal (and the way they worded their comments was to imply Lundin and NSU need to come together and make a better deal offer work), NSU won't be afforded the luxury of just hoping Lundin goes away and now should "rush" to FCX and RIO to see if a better deal with them can be done.
Remember, in the end, FCX stands the best in all of this and is my personal favorite to end up with Timok (and possibly buy it and the LZ and allow Bisha to be spun off to NSU shareholders with other assets).
All I can say now is: