Thanks. I found the number in the 10-Q for Mar. 31, 2015 as:Convertible notes payable, 3,495,581. the number for Dec. 31, 2014 was 3,041,332. So for simplicity, Mar had 3.5 million which was up from 3.0 million in the previous Dec.
Given that it takes ~35 million shares at these prices to pay off 1 million dollars of debt, there is required on the order of 122 million shares to be sold to retire the $3.5 million convertible debt from Mar 31. (But notice that the convertible debt increased from Dec. to Mar. by ~$500,000.
Since Mar. 31, the Average Daily volume of shares traded is about 3.5 million. The average share price over that time is $0.09. The average dropped to the $0.03 price starting in MAY!. Even if ~1.7 million shares of the average daily volume @0.03 = $50,000 went to pay off the $3.5 million debt, it would take ~70 trading days to complete the payoff.
I hope that you are right but I think this will proceed into July-Aug and that is if Bates does not increase the convertible debt more!