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From every angle ZIOC's BoD is in a class of their own. Could do justice to a FTSE100, and they are of a quality unheard of for AIM. We have Clinton Dines. He's the former president of BHP Billiton China. He stepped down when BHP strayed from the Confucian path of relationship building, as is the Chinese way. He happens to be a fluent Mandarin speak, by the way. Anyway...one of his current non-exec roles is with Fonterra, the giant NZ national dairy cooperative. They've run into some issues in China, and have sent in Mr Dines... When it comes to iron ore and Chinese dealings, we have a star on the board. And he's not alone either... '...A working group of the Board � that includes Independent Directors Simon Israel and Clinton Dines, who both have significant China experience and expertise � is providing guidance and oversight as the senior management team work to recover the investment.' http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1803/S00616/fonterra-announces-2018-interim-results.htm
Extruder - a track record is a 'record' and with one as good as ZIOC's I'm very confident it will be maintained.
Hi MM, You are referring to the BoD and their track record, which is historic, which is by definition 'looking back'. You've chosen to ignore the link provided to Carter tweets more recent than yours - and the issues that they raise LOOKING FORWARD. ATB
extruder - You seem to spend your time looking in the rear-view mirror. I chose to look forward. ZIOC board have impeccable credentials, and that is who I am invested in.
Hi MM, Colin Harris is obviously eminently qualified on technical , commercial and 'connections' grounds, as you've pointed out already. Those skillsets, whilst useful , don't address the challenge for ZIOP, which is to get a deal that also works politically and cosmetically. The Brett Carter RTZ post you refer mentions in passing its involvement in a bribes investigation in Guinea being led by the SFO, which may give RTZ pause for thought. Esp. given his later feed where the C-B opposition is (bravely ) asking the IMF to require audit of SNPC (C-B oilco) before any bail-out / debt restructure. Carter obviously has an agenda, so 'consider the source', but there's some more recent stuff about ENI, money-laundering , suppression of the opposition, ransacking of transparency NGO etc etc that helps explains the current 'political risk' side of things in C-B. https://screenshots.firefox.com/pojLDIVUXfZ7TSyJ/twitter.com GLEN, of course, isn't exactly squeaky clean itself (publiceye.ch), so the IMF will have a tricky balancing act between the various 'stakeholders'. Especially in the more recent 'holier than thou' environment (think #MeToo, guncontrol, facebook, Panama papers etc etc) But , as the saying goes, if you saw how they were made, you'd never eat a sausage.... ATB
The same can be said for these posts :)
says the one who has posted 'yawn' twice in his last 9 posts and just repeats the same moaning every post with nothing of any use to anyone to say.
For those interested in the potential Rio connection with Zanaga. Our very own Colin Harris was in charge of the Rio team proving up Simandou, before doing the same with Zanaga. He knows the iron ore game in West-Central Africa better than anyone. And he's on our team. Anyway....at the start of this month Rio 'wrote back' Simandou on their accounts- reducing the status of the ore from 'reserves' to the lesser 'resources'. As SteelGuru puts it (1): Considering current uncertainties in timing of development and potential variations to project scope under future project ownership, the project ore reserves have been written back to mineral resources. In other words Rio now have a less certain iron ore stream on their books. Which adds some weight to the tweet from Professor Brett Carter, a lecturer on West African politics and economics, on 8th March just gone that : #Congo SassouNguesso reportedly plans to sell share of Zanaga iron ore mine to @RioTinto, (2) Now if Rio wanted to pick up the phone to ZIOC, ZIOC have the perfect point man in Colin Harris. (While others are yawning, I'm joining the dots). (1) https://steelguru.com/mining/changes-to-rio-tinto-simandou-ore-reserves-and-mineral-resources/504162 (2) https://twitter.com/brett_l_carter
Always welcome to new news, but at this rate I'm surprised some of these posts are not considered duplicates considering the number of times the same stuff has been spouted. There is a difference between news and repeating the same stuff time and time again.
So many immature people on here, if your not interested in research and factual information on the company then don’t read it. Infact why are you even here?
nhel1te... great post once again, thanks for your regular informative contribution to the board. Invaluable as always for both LTH and newcomers looking to research.
*yawn*
First class board, in another league entirely from your average AIM company. Amongst them is Colin Harris. He proved up the giant Simandou resource for Rio before moving onto Zanaga. Joining the dots..... Colin Harris Mr. Colin John Harris is Non-Executive Director of Zanaga Iron Ore Co Ltd. Colin Harris has been working as an exploration geologist for over 40 years and has a wealth of experience in the generation, exploration and evaluation of projects covering a variety of commodities and deposit styles in over 25 countries mainly in Africa and Europe. He has worked for major international mining companies including Anglo American, Cominco and more recently Rio Tinto. During his 18 years at Rio Tinto Mr Harris managed multi-million dollar programmes which in the past 15 years included the evaluation of iron ore deposits in Greenland, Scandinavia, Mali, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone and more importantly between 1998 and 2008 heading up the team evaluating the world-class Simandou iron ore project in the Republic of Guinea. Mr Harris resigned from Rio Tinto in 2008 and joined the Zanaga team later in the year as Project Director. Mr Harris stepped down as Project Director of the Project after Xstrata exercised its First Call Option. Mr Harris is also a non-executive director of AIM and Oslo AXESS listed London Mining plc. https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-officers/ZIOC.L