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Is that all you can say D14m0nd? Perhaps instead you can walk us through the logic of the 2p placing you were predicting in late September for ZOE?

Or indeed, whilst you are here, would you care to speculate on whether we will need to raise funds via a share placing (a popular theme of yours in the past) in late 2109 or early 2020.... please explain you reasoning if you do feel that way so we can have that on record.

Hi Chopper, (that's some name you have there.... I assume you had a bike with a big wheel at the back when a lad !) as you can see i am on the board today having not been on for a while. Very busy work weeks the last 2 and was really busy on OTC listing on Tuesday last.....quite a day was that and the Tuesday to Wednesday open drop was another kick in the balls.

But, i am replying to you because after this 'trading opportunity' provided by the lack of initial uptake on OTC listing, it really is a great time to add. i did not think we would be down below 8 again and the coming news timeframe is pretty short. For that reason i think, as you say, we will be headed North real soon. GL BH

CBD’s popularity comes with often-exaggerated claims; some people look at it as a cure-all. That also could change with regulation. The FDA already issued warnings to companies making medical claims. As the feds begin to regulate CBD, some misinformation may vanish from marketing, which could lower sales, as the market sorts itself out, “weeding out” certain companies as others grow.

Good thing we are producing high grade certified organic seed low in THC and high in CBD and out CBD isolate products are backed up by full analysis of chemical constituents. The cowboys will soon be feeling the heat from the Feds.... mmmm

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...600,000 shares of his own to look after. so he is going to want them to grow in value. Our chairman Paul Mendell is working for free until the SP reached 14p so I think you will find a double figure share price here again soon.

The recent post-OTC correction has obviously made a lot of traders very happy and quite a bit richer! Well done. But though it is tempting to walk away rubbing your hands, the severity of the correction to just below 8 from 13p means that all eyes are focussed on the next run up now. It will not be long I suspect.... just needs a bit of news and it's hello 10-11p for starters.

Have fun, and don't miss the bus....oh, and I thing your dog has evacuated on the rockery... you may need a bag!!

Ah good morning OSG! A nice early post from you, after letting the dog out and having a fag and a cuppa in the yard..... I think I am going to unpick your post for a bit of Saturday fun and set this straight for those mystified... and there might be some... and in so doing address the often mentioned placement / cash running out theme covered here by some trolls ( jaimee, dickyboyholmz, burning D )

Firstly, I presume you have an ID in ADVFN... lol, coul it be you? Secondly, of course he has his shares and warrants still, they are his, so naturally they are not in treasury at ZOE. The BOD at ZOE cannot tell him not to excise them. It is his decision.

He has 23 million or so I believe. If he excises them all at 5p then we will drift up from the current 150 million shares to approx 175 million, representing approximately a 15% dilution of the company shareholding. But the company will receive £1.2 million for that and will thus be even less likely to need to place or raise capital in the manner most feared by flighty investors.

But it is not a free process for him. He will have to use a broker who will need paying and there will be tax implications for him. He would need a SP of 7p or more to make it really worth his while and I suspect he would much rather use the warrants in a double figure share price environment. The dilutive effect of the warrants is in one view significant but in another, once we have strong sales news from the multiple sales outlets ( online US, online UK, Schrader stores US, Mr Checkout US, distributor UK, more products UK, more deals US to be announced.....?) and as we approach first seed sales revenue ( we will have seeds ready for sale in January and early buyer or broker revenue could be announced earlier than many expect...) then the combined 'penny-dropping' moment for investors seeing what the future of ZOE looks like could lead to strong buying both here and in the as yet inactive OTC market and the warrant shares would be swallowed up in the frenzy to get on board cheaply.

I assume that is his intention and i expect that in the early part of Q1 2020 we will see these getting used. For now we await news from the US. Nick Tulloch is there and has implied that the company is busy. Busy talking to US investors, more US distributors, busy working on new products and sure very busy with the indoor facility seed production of a targeted 1.2 million seeds per 2,500 plant 'bay' per month and busy pumping out Chill smokes and Chews at maximum rate to feed a hungry distribution outlet network such as Mr Checkout.

Remember, Nick is a Finance Director turned CEO. He has and is guarding his cash pile to facilitate production of his highest revenue generating lines so that he does not run into the kind of problems HNR used to. He has cut costs and staff and has decided to focus on branded products and feminized hemp seed. High value products at the beginning and end of the CBD business model.

And he has 600,000 s

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Gallini, it's actually a very good post. Good, because in the past ABC has posted expletive laden, troll like gibberish but has here attempted a rational approach to it's trolling.... and failed. Thus showing it has not thought its post through.

It, and it befits this fool, is talking pure nonsense. it knows little about CBD, it's isolation process and consequences thereof and I enjoyed reading the post because it is so foolish when applied to ZOE. Why? because this is the precise reason why ZOE is concentrating on seeds (the beginning of the journey) and finished, branded product containing CBD isolate (not full spectrum, the end of the process). Both these areas have great profit margins and thus we have shelved our plans to expand the outdoor acreage in 2020 to concentrate on seeds and seed genetics and branded finished products that make a fantastic margin per CBD content.

The theoretical outdoor yield of our current harvested crop is 30 x 40,000 or 1.2 million grams of CBD. This is enough to make 8-10 million Chill product units, which after manufacture, if they 'only' generate $3 per unit to ZOE (cost of production, packaging, distribution , margin etc... pessimistic) amounts to $24-30 million. Oh dear ABC... oh dear.

Cue sarcastic post from D14mond ..... if he uses the admin line again then no further proof of his lack of creativity will be required. GLA BH

I suspect Bertie, they may do more than Nibble. I also think that they will be happy to pay a lot more than the current SP given the combined Branded Product and Seed sales strategy, even just looking at 2020 and not further out.

I think they personally will see a share purchase under 20p as a good early buy.

I have asked for an update on sales activity and have been assured that information will be provided in the fairly near term. I have been speculating on the volume of Chill brand products ( hemp smokes, CBD smokes and chews ) that would have been necessary, at a minimum, to satisfy a 15 distribution centre Mr Checkout agreement and cannot see these centres wanting less than 10,000 units each to get started.

How much would we make per unit... $3-$4 ??

Can we provide 150,000 per month?

Plus other sales

Plus seeds coming soon

Plus historic revenue

I think those selling today are going to experience on of those horrible....'If only...' moments soon. Ah well. BH

So not 150-180 tons.....50,70,100?

Used material did not perform as expected chemically....pad structure and drainage not quite right?

So assume they want to progress to the ‘heap on top of the heap’ meaning they need an approved PEPR.

Hopefully the cement they did manage to acquire provides enough cash to make a new heap!

... and PW's share purchase of October 1 tend to imply that the existing leach pad material is not duff. That's how I would read it anyway....

this from May 3 RNS:

Sales Commence at Leigh Creek Copper Mine

Strategic Minerals plc (AIM: SML; USOTC: SMCDY), a producing mineral company actively developing projects prospective for battery materials, is pleased to announce that the Leigh Creek Copper Mine ("LCCM") operation has made its first sale of copper cement produced at the Mountain of Light processing facility.

Highlights:-

· Sale of the copper commenced with an initial shipment of 5 tonnes of copper cement (approximately 70% Cu).

· Production from the re-activated heap leach pads is continuing in line with management's expectations.

· Total production from the existing heap leach pads is forecast to be in the range of 150 tonnes to 180 tonnes of copper in cement.

· Offtake agreement in place with Adchem on attractive commercial terms for all expected production.



Commenting, John Peters, Managing Director, Strategic Minerals, said:

"This first sale of high grade copper concentrate, in the form of cement, firmly establishes LCCM as SML's second cash generating project. The initial sale, whilst relatively small, demonstrates the Board's commitment to test all aspects of the LCCM operation meticulously prior to launching a full scale re-start of operations.

"The current re-start activities have provided the management team with valuable insight into operational techniques at LCCM and will form the blueprint for the larger production activities at Paltridge North and Rosmann East. These are currently the focus of a feasibility study which is due for completion in the second half of 2019. Full operational production is scheduled for commencement late 2019 / early in 2020."

So if by the middle of October they had produced, say 100 tons cement, why not RNS that?

Maybe delay on sign off of PEPR and FS for next phase is the reason. Or maybe the existing material did not produce as well as expected. If it was the latter it will not have been for lack of copper content but could be due to the physical nature of the piles and their drainage. Or another chemical aspect of the historic pad material impeding the action of the sulphuric acid. Or, and I think the most likely, the cashflow squeeze has put the brakes on progress here and thus they have slowed everything down.

Not a problem if you are patient. VERY annoying if you are a long term holder. MASSIVE opportunity if you are new to the share or a trader and pulled out at a higher price.

I have emailed JP and he says they are waiting for PEPR sign off. Soon we hope.... I, personally, with no knowledge of the site or the direct chemistry of the ore, but reading the report think that SML will extract plenty of copper from this project. They may even be delaying full production in the hope of a stronger copper price next year once the Yanks and China get done with their trade spat.

we are entertaining ourselves here! I did enjoy sub's election post! I do not expect Nick to run for Parliament!

However, here's a question. Considering Mr Checkout is a distributor to wholesale and retail outlets, how many units of Chill product ( Hemp smokes, CBD smokes and CBD chews ) do you think would constitute a reasonable volume for MC to 'bother' with?

Bear in mind NT RNS'd a need to stock build Chill BEFORE the October 4 RNS. He knew he needed to be able to deliver a certain volume to the 15 distribution centres, in the then announced deal.

I am sure the other sales avenue continue to grow but it is the MC route that offers volume give what we know so far.

You may also want to speculate on how fast you think ZOE can produce Chill smokes and chews, because with a partner like Mr Checkout and with even modest sales uptake from their vast client base, the limiting factor for us as a new, growing entity, may at this stage be how fast can we make the product.

ATB BH

RNS 2nd August.

Meant to add below but rushed...

Very true. As well as our recreational (Chill) and Health & Beauty (Zoetic) products we have a special medical CBD angle too via the CBD produced from indoor plants that are grown in a controlled environment. Although they are being grown principally for seed, the CBD from them will have a purity that CBD from outdoor sources will struggle to meet.

To be clear, by this I am referring to specific metal contaminants in the soil as well as pesticides and herbicides used in 'normal' agriculture which will be extracted along with the CBD during the processes used to 'drag' those molecules from the plant matter.

The purest, cleanest CBD will be a very special commodity. I do hope the SKIN tests with CBD on their Wound pHase and STOER pads prove very successful. This will be another feather in the exciting looking ZOE cap.

It is Sunday night and those that follow ZOE will be wondering what the month of November will bring? I know I am....

It is too early for seed sales but notification of a successful harvest of first indoor crop grown through to seed could be given and further information on the seed development process.

The deal with Mr Checkout was RNS'd a month ago tomorrow so updated information may be forthcoming along with other product and sales development news. Nick Tulloch has promised better information in the future and I expect him to keep to this.

We have not heard about plans for the outdoor crop we have harvested and will have dried and I expect we will soon.

Other deals will have been sought and so news regarding this will be a further stimulus to the share price.

But obviously what is exciting people is the prospect of US investors interested in ZOE having the easy ability to buy shares (no new shares, just the ones already in issue plus warrants that could be sold) via the much awaited listing on the OTC market in the US. Regulatory approval is all we are waiting for apparently. when will that happen? Nobody knows...

As they say at Monument Tube station... 'Please Mind the Gap!'

In this case it coup be ....'Please Mind the Gap UP !'

ATB BH

Bertie, I personally will be very happy with a x15 rise if that is 'all' we can manage!!!

I note that a 'new' poster with a lot of time on his hands has on another loooong thread been questioning whether the recent rise is 'all' or 'just' about expectation around the impact of the upcoming OTC listing.

Whilst it may certainly be a factor, I think that 'investor' (he holds but he doesn't.... the Don Quixote of shares) is forgetting that the SP of 3.5p from which ZOE has recently recovered was stupidly low. The company, and it's shareholders, suffered a catastrophic loss of sentiment in September for obvious reasons. The new CEO's behaviour, communications and forward plans show clearly what can be achieved if we sell Chill and Zoetic products in volume and if the seed genetics arm of the business bears fruit in the new year.

CEO Nick Tulloch has promised to keep the market updated more regularly and to give as much factual, numerical information as he can. He want to keep investors in the loop as he knows this will build confidence. Anyone who comes on the board quoting the £36,000 Zoetic revenue figure from the first period to end of September is either very stupid or a troll. The news that we are now distributing Chill products at volume via wholesale distributor Mr Checkout is a game changer. The companies websites have also only recently gone live for online payments and the product range is expending. To base future sales on past ones is idiotic. Nothing less.

We should have a very, very interesting run to year end reporting of 31st march 2020 and I honestly don't know what the SP might be at that time. Good news from Mr Checkout plus other positive sales growth plus strong seed sales plus US investor engagement via OTC may well create a perfect ****tail to send the SP to levels that will surprise quite a few. I do personally hope so as I hold a bunch of but also because it has been a torrid time being in HNR and we certainly deserve a break.

GLA BH

Piface... as Chesh says, have a read of RNSs from March 19 for history but key RNSs are in September and the latest October 4 of course.

The key is how much will American investors value this at on the combination of seeds sales and products under the new Brands? Chill will lead the way with Mr Checkout but there a whole load of me Soetic premium products coming to join those that already exist and as people find how good they are then these lines will grow too.

The premium to the company from product sales makes a gram of CBD worth anywhere from say 25 to 60 dollars as
Product sold and the outdoor crop already harvested equated to a potential 1.2 million grams CBD.

You do the math. The Yanks will. BH

High fives to you Chesh!

I fancy a 12 o’clock RNS.

Would only be sporting. Don’t get spooked into selling. That would be ghoulish!

This is getting primed for the mother of all bounces on good news.....

Assuming news is good....

I am hoping that the BOD have gone quiet just because they have decided to stick to a ‘only do news when there is proper news’ policy.

Fingers crossed!

No. Or yes. Probably no. Or maybe yes. But probably not. Or.....

It may be a secret scam to scare the bejesus out of holders....

It is quite organised looking and reminds me of something.... ok VERY organised looking