Hoots,
you are correct about the pause in trading rule, however a pause is generally because of a technicality in a report, but when it goes from pause to trading halt is uncommon.
It is clear that AMG never called the trading halt as there would have been a request for trading halt not a pause,which appears they never asked for.
As you know only too well, one rule for the big guys and one for the minnow. Check Rio, said nothing about Patterson’s, then after 14,000m of drilling say, “oh might have something,sorry about that folks. What about the punters that sold during the 14,000m of drilling. ???. Oh we have separate rule for them.
Looks like same deal here. Seems NCM want silence. ( silence is golden).