Do you think the buyout would be that much for a start-up company w/o much production or equipment? Although AURC has $4.5B in assets, an acquiring firm would still have costs associated with mining the ore. Now if the amount of minerals audited by the Ministry has been low-balled as suggested by S/R, then I could see a billion dollar offer.
I'd love it if that were the case, but I'm just trying to be a bit realistic here...