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Yes Dusty, Sam Garrett is good at spotting potential monsters. I believe Gervaise is also involved in some way there.

Only a small holding there at the moment but looking to build that up as funds allow.

It does, GGP did very well for me in the end too.

I have been invested there since May 2018.

Different resource, different drivers (they had Newcrest come in on a gradual earn in which really drove the SP up).

I'm no mining expert and I appreciate that was gold, which is more saxy than titanium to the market, but it was also really deep - mostly requiring expensive underground mine.

Assuming the rest of the drilling at Thomas is consistent grade and depth with what we've had so far this should be much easier to get out of the ground.

Important day today as we've finally hit £100m market cap intra day.

Now if we can sustain this SP & MCap for a number of sessions may start attracting some of the funds/IIs who are prohibited from investing below £100m MCap.

Good to see lots of positive talk in the Financial Statements. It's really now just over to the company and it's leadership to deliver the next steps on the route to defining and commercialising this unique asset.

Exciting H2 coming up!

Thanks Verulamium, that adds more context. Agree it removes the point of easy online trading!

Thanks NelsonTDog.

It's just unusual. I frequently get negotiated trades on shares in during heavy trading periods but can still transact online (just price is allocated after clicking go) this seemed different. Good to hear you get through to someone quickly and they waive the £49 phone trade fee.

Great to see a sustained rise here (albeit still way under my average) Does anyone have an interactive investor account and have trouble buying/selling this stock online?

I'm getting a message saying can only be traded over the phone? Anyone know why? Bit of a pain in the butt.

These are just the shares related to the 5m warrants they announced had been exercised last week.

Manlord was trying to post a load of summary/analysis earlier which partly showed up but now seems to have disappeared..... strange.

Thanks Ageos, updates soon then hopefully. I'd assumed the AC holes wouldn't take too long as (if I recall) they were only going down to about 50m in the weathered cap and AC are quicker than diamond drills. So multiple news items soon hopefully.

There's no rush of course, great story unfolding here and more than comfortable with the investment. Different mineral obviously but reminds me of the early days of GGP where the market took a long time to catch up (despite the evidence) and had started to when Newcrest got involved then it went mental in the months that followed.

So quiet here but understand there is not much to discuss while we wait. I see the usual aim slow drip of value while we are in a news drought. £65m market cap is crazy low for what Empire have, however I appreciate wider market may not take proper notice until we have an MRE.

I've looked through RNS's but can't find any estimate of how long the current drill campaign was expected to take. Does anyone have any recollection if it has been mentioned in the various interviews the company has done over the last couple of months? Only thing I seem to recall was mention of them hoping to get an MRE out around June.

Assume majors (who surely must be aware of prospects here by now) are also waiting for MRE since most of the other factors that make this a viable project appear to be in place......

Hexturncrab, as Cev says, no tax on dividends or capital gains tax for shares held in an ISA.

So in essence you'd be mad not to utilise your allowance unless you like paying tax.

Some of these AIM shares can sky rocket pretty quickly and if you have a relatively large holding will very quickly eat up your £3k per year CGT allowance. Admittedly it's a nice problem to have!

Just remember if you have a savings account ISA with a bank (or similar) reduce your £20k allowance by whatever you put in there as saving each year.

Investment case continues to build.

Question is why would a senior executive with a stellar mining CV join the board of an AIM minnow to be remunerated primarily in options?.....

So we've now got the board in place, next for Shaun is to reveal the plan and then start delivering value from the world's largest Titanium deposit.

Pepas is definitely interesting and has surprised me. The excitement reminds me of the early days of GGP, and that was a wild ride.

Expect similar grades for PEP15 but it’s PEP16 that is really going to define how this evolves. If grades in that hole are similar to what’s found already it’s really game on. It will also define where we go with the ‘drill, drill, drill’ they spoke about for 2025….

10% dilution at 10p would bring in around £2.5m and not harm the sp excessively. Add in the warrants and that’s almost £3.5m.

That should easily cover extended drilling at Pepas and start of work in Argentina.

Personally I’d prefer them to concentrate on one thing - as Brad said we’re small and don’t have much manpower - get pepas to resource and then look at our other projects

Thanks Rob, it's an interesting comparison for the Pitfield project, especially when we get the JORC report.

Thanks Rob.

Given we've got ex-Rio people working for EEE as well it's a pretty good assumption!

Was that Sovereign Metals? Looks like they took 15%, although that was for a Graphite project if I have the right one?

More fantastic news today on the Pitfield project.

Respect must be given to Shaun and the EEE team for the way this has been handled so far.

Market starting to grasp the enormity of it all, as the investment case is being derisked with each RNS.

Slight uncertainty will remain until process of extracting Titanium is proved up (esp from the sandstone) but the company don't appear to expect issues.

Expected Massive ore body, great stable mining jurisdiction, close to road and sea links.

Can't wait to see the grade and tonnage parameters in that exploration JORC when it arrives.

Big question - how long will the majors sit on the sidelines? Not sure which of them has the biggest expertise in Titanium.

Clearly a poster on here who does not seem to understand the difference between a Nomad and a NED.

Or they do and are just here to sow discontent/mis-information.

GCM is AIM listed and there is no legal requirement on it to have 2 NED, however it is considered best practice to follow the governance rule.

I don't want to propogate their thread so apologies for jumping on this one.

Reminds me a bit of the early days in GGP. When they first announced a potential new gold province investors struggled to grasp what it all meant, even, to a degree, after Newcrest came on board.

Look where that went!

Not saying for one minute the same will happen here as lots of proving up to do but when 'Globally significant' starts getting bounded around in RNS's certainly a good time to jump in and start building a position.

Yep Ronnie, market cap is not reflective currently of the potential (but when is it ever on AIM?!).

EEE also not a one trick pony. As well as Pitfield, there's Walton (under explored but prospects for multiple metals inc possibly Li) and Stavely (Copper/Gold/Silver prospect). But the real other potential is at Eclipse-Gindalbie, go back and have a look at the gold grades and shallow depths from the holes drilled at Homeward Bound target reported in March 2022, they are very good.