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"Either Pay Debt or Acquisition or Pay Special Dividend. Even a toddler can sit on 1.7 Billion dollar cash claiming he done fabulous job of doing Nothing."

A little harsh sircorp and not entirely accurate but I totally agree with your basic argument. Botten has no right to feel smug right now, he needs to move on decisively as you say. After all right now with the bearish POO (yet again) and distressed minnows holding good resources and tenements in the PNG sweet spots this will be seen down the track as a golden opportunity for a relatively cashed up company to secure its future, and ours. Botten is a deal maker, lets see him earn his massive salary by either growing the company and the SP or else pay us a dividend