My read on the situation ... the JV was signed, but is not closed, it is dependent on, among other things, financing being obtained by Scorpio. This may be a done deal, but until it is closed, I think investors will take a wait and see. Here's the 8K filed yesterday, has some interesting stuff in there about superior offers for Mineral Ridge, and Scorpio's right to match:
<< Surprising it didn't go up today with the news. >>
Didn't seem like there was a lot of news here. This is basically the press release that they made last summer. You'd think that with gold at $1100/ounce people would be falling over themselves to get a project with known reserves into production ASAP.
Still, it's better than announcing that the deal fell apart.