Is Simon Ridgway bringing Emerick Resources (ERC.v) out the broom cupboard?

Simon Ridg....hold on! Shome mishtake shurely ossifer!

The Gold Group stable (aka "The Ridgway Companies") have had a pretty decent last six months, as this chart shows. Radius (RDU.v) is up tons, Fortuna (FVI.to) over a double, new kid in town Iron Creek (IRN.v) has started well and even Focus Ventures (FCV.v), beaten up when its Nueva California drill program caught a whole bunch of newsletter writers overhyping,  has made a recovery from lows and is active with the drill machine again.

All except Emerick Resources (ERC.v) that is, the Ridgway Yukon area vehicle that found very little via chasing up soil samples at its projects in 2009. Yup it's up a bit, but the volumes have been pitiful with zero market interest about the ticker. But is that about to change? Checking over at insider activity this morning, we note....

Emerick Resources Corp. (ERC)						As of December 7th, 2010
Filing Date	Transaction Date	Insider Name	Ownership Type	Securities	Nature of transaction	# or value acquired or disposed of	Unit Price
Dec 07/10	Dec 02/10	Keyser, Harmen J.	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	00 - Opening Balance-Initial SEDI Report
Dec 07/10	Dec 02/10	Cass, David Maurice	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	00 - Opening Balance-Initial SEDI Report

...insiders taking up a position in ERC (with the name "Cass" particularly intruiging). I don't own ERC and I'm not planning on changing that in the near future, but I will be keeping an eye out on the newsflow to see if the company starts the resurrection shuffle. This one got pumped by Casey back in 2009 and although it's the type of promo that house tends to "forget" they ever did, it does show that the communications channels are already set for the shepherds. DYODD, dude.

Simon says.....

...I don't like Emerick (ERC.v) any more:

Emerick Resources Corp. (ERC)						As of December 21st, 2009
Filing Date	Transaction Date	Insider Name	Ownership Type	Securities	Nature of transaction	# or value acquired or disposed of	Unit Price
Dec 21/09	Dec 17/09	Ridgway, Simon T.P.	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-88,000	$0.260
Dec 21/09	Dec 17/09	Ridgway, Simon T.P.	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-2,000	$0.255
Dec 21/09	Dec 17/09	Ridgway, Simon T.P.	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-19,000	$0.260
Dec 21/09	Dec 17/09	Ridgway, Simon T.P.	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-30,000	$0.270
Dec 21/09	Dec 17/09	Ridgway, Simon T.P.	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-45,000	$0.270
Dec 21/09	Dec 17/09	Ridgway, Simon T.P.	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-9,000	$0.275
Dec 21/09	Dec 17/09	Ridgway, Simon T.P.	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-50,000	$0.300
Dec 21/09	Dec 17/09	Ridgway, Simon T.P.	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	54 - Exercise of warrants	243,750	$0.200
Dec 21/09	Dec 17/09	Ridgway, Simon T.P.	Direct Ownership	Warrants	54 - Exercise of warrants	-243,750

It's not surprising after it's total bomb in the Yukon drilling program in November...and the way the $300k financing round was cancelled last week. Funny how this one got pumped by the Casey crew a couple of weeks back, innit? Favours for favours and all that....ho hum.....

Total OT: Focus Ventures (FCV.v) finished weak yesterday, didn't it Louis?

UPDATE: For the doubtermailers, ERC.v was mentioned by the Casey Investment Alert number 362 dated December 4th, only one of two stocks in the alert. And no, I'm not a subber (more value in spending on ice-cream).