RE:Wondering.....Why would an acquirer buy now? This thing is being built, and that makes an acquirer the inheritor of whatever screwups are baked into the engineering, which is mostly complete.
You also have to have a think about who would actually be in a position to make an offer or interested in doing so. A small to intermediate producer would be taking on a big acquistion (175K oz per year), but since it's sub-200k/year a larger producer wouldn't find it wothwhile.
You also need to consider that MOZ's fearless leader is viewed as a company killer. As a buyer I'd want to know he hadn't done another Stornoway - operationally speaking.
To me that adds up to : DON'T. HOLD. YOUR. BREATH.
As to a share consolidation, what benefit do you think you'd get from such an action? It won't impact their TSX listing; and in the vast majority of cases, doing a coinsolidation has very little impact on share prices, basically killing the stock.