Given we have not seen the entire C.A., we cannot state that SRGE did not have the right to identity Kinross as a partner.
Of course they didn't have the right to do that, no matter what the CA said. Kinross was NOT a partner. Signing a confidentiality agreement does not confer partnership status. As a number of people have pointed out, majors sign large numbers of CAs every year. Nothing comes of most of them.
How do you know? Did the SEC impart this information to you? If the SEC contacted Kinross and requested documents as you claim, and Kinross HQ could not reach Moscosa on the same day to obtain a copy, how could the SEC have received documents from Kinross?
SRGE has said that the SEC requested documents from THEM, and that they were delivered BEFORE the 26th. Evidently they did not please the SEC.
And Kinross would have known quite well that it signed no partnership agreement with SRGE, because Moscosa wouldn't have been the one signing it. The signatory would have been someone in upper management.
Note that Kinross are not afraid of the SEC. Read their filings and see how many times the SEC has contacted them and warned them over disclosure issues.
What? SEC comment letters are normal. They're especially common with mining companies and with companies in the oil and gas sector, because filing requirements are so complicated. Kinross's primary filing obligations are to SEDAR. From time to time, they may not have used the correct form in their SEC submissions.
The rest are irrelevant as I will believe the Company that they had/have evidence to believe that Kinross became a Partner at 12/26.
If so, then they could have straightened it out with the SEC and with the public. But that hasn't happened, has it?
Again, note that SRGE never claimed to have signed a JV Agreement with Kinross in their PR 12/26.
They quite unequivocally announced a "joint partnership" with Kinross on the 26th:
Southridge Announces a Joint Partnership with Kinross (NYSE: KGC), a Major NYSE Listing Mining Company for its Cinco Minas an...