I reckon the shorts will start to cover very soon. That would be the news to register a milestone.
No guarantee that Lopez replacement wont be any good and all the mess will probably take some time to sort out. In the mean time, most mining did not stop in the Philippines anyway. She was more noise than reality. Stocks like red5 and ogc have not even budged on the news and they have mines in the Philippines.
I tried to post a graph showing the valuation and NPV comparisons for miners. Software issues.
WSA was by far the cheapest.
WSA Price at posting:
$2.06 Sentiment: Buy Disclosure: Held