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There does not need to be an answer to the question - for a few reasons. Mainly that the lead posters here are on an agenda to have the readers here believe that Zanaga is on a par with the Rio and Fortesque projects, when the reality is this Congo project has been hawked for decades. If (as I hope they do) the Chinese jump in ahead, that is terrific all round. But try as hard as you want, I am not going to believe the project attractiveness is on a par with Sinamdou or Belinga - and I am happy we all agree to disagree.

Secondly, if keyboard warriors want to come and have a pop - lets go. You will fine I can be as respectful or disrespectful as anyone lurking here. The reality of that is your insecurity shines through by not being prepared to accept others take a negative against those who (seem to) spend an eternity on these types of boards endlessly posting and promoting whatever the stock is they are involved / excited / researching/ (maybe even) promoting ........

Zanaga has 675m shares issued - if they bring it into production, then an awful lot more are going to be issued. And if they are not, well no doubt we will all be very happy indeed if somehow they sell the project for $675m. Even $337.5m would be a pretty spectacular outcome.

Good luck - I hope we all make money with the share price going up from here. However the $ plus brigade really should know better ..........

XT - what i am factoring in here is that this project has been kicked about for a seriously long time. And/But it seems to have some quality about it - but then there are many projects like it all around Africa with same or better or worse quality - and they are not all coming to market. It is just that some here are trying a little tooooooo hard to make this sound like the next best thing hurtling towards them - and they better jump onboard quick. No free float, big strategic partner, 3 more sleeps until Santa comes, its as good as Simandou and Fortesque, its only a matter of time .....

Well, where I come from - Rio and Twiggy will already know all about Zanaga and they walked on by ..... I could go on - but I still like the project, so will stop here.

I knew sooner or later you would bite - and here we are ......

Good to see you trotting out your same same over there ....... Do you think anyone believes you ?!

"The revised date of the Investor Event will enable the Company to further progress certain ongoing workstreams relating to the strategic partner process and to therefore provide a more fulsome update to shareholders with respect to the wider strategy for the future development of the Zanga Iron Ore Project."

So there are going to be some that tell us this is the start of something truly amazing. And some will get sucked into that whirlwind of excitment. And there will be others that kinda sit back and reflect as to the actual words above - like 'wider strategy' which (to me) does not suggest they have a Strategic Partner signed on the dotted line YET (because if they did, they could not say today what they just said).

But anyways, is a message board for exchange of views - and we dont all need to share the same one ....

Classic response from the Tlou faithfuls - thinking they know what my interests, motivations, purpose is.

If mine is so bad to just want to preach about how bad Tlou and its management team have demonstrated (and that is UNDENIABLE - unless you are Brad), what then does this make you Winni? All you want to try do is be the ying to my obvious yang. You never offer anything, other than poke at me. And you like to tell me what I do, say, think - a person you dont know, have never met, probably never will (unless you attend a Tlou AGM) - what does this say about your snide, cheeky, classless poke the bear efforts ...... Go on then - amaze me with somethiing 'amazing' ...

Sorry - all you guys here have are back-stabbing, snide, attempted smart-alec comments OR posts spewing out endless ramblings and drivel of a guy that uses this site as his own social media for chatting to others.

And then would try make us believe he actually knows something about CBM or Botswana. Endless, just endless shoite

MM you are trying very hard to make people believe there are announcements or something special coming. Why bother - we all know there is a briefing ahead, and being a public company if there is anything market sensitive to disclose then they will make announcement.

My IQ is smart enough to have known Tlou was over-selling its story back in 2017 days. Unlike everybody else - so if that makes me stupid - guilty as charged.

What does it make you morons then ....... All you have a back-stabbing, snipe, attempted smart alec comments. End of !!

You didnt understand the maths then, so i doubt you would now. I truly cannot imagine someone who genuinely believes what he says and thinks and posts here is insightful and pertinent to justifying why Tlou has, pretty much, failed to deliver on all investment performance metrics.

You really are a gem ! Certainly your numbskull is as thick as one.

I could not find the articles you are referencing in the links posted. I would be very interested to read these - since as we all know, ability to efficiently export your raw or beneficiated product to next value chain location has significant bearing on overall profitability and financing terms.

One project I keep a passing eye on in Botswana talks about Namibia ports and rail linkages to central africa - in link below. These guys could do with someone like extrader or MM to get the word out there. Especially as they only have maybe 60m shares in issue. Their project cost to link to these rail upgrades would appear to be a fraction of say Simandou or Fortesque or probably even Zanaga.

https://tsodiloresources.com/s/News-Entry.asp.html#1351

1.6 bn on a fully diluted basis - you do know what that means Bradley, right?

Flogging a horse that hasn't moved in 5 years and calling people names - my you have learned lots over the course of your unfulfilled life.

I wonder who you would be angry at if you didn't have me here ...... Do your children keep coming round to see you or have they, like everyone else, given up .......

Oh yes, gas to power, gas to orapa, synergen met, data centre, computational facility, what else have i missed.

You create more gas from your endless Tony has not bankrupted the company - yet he has issued 1.5bn shares + taken on 12.5m convertible debt, flared some gas but has yet to manage effective dewatering of the best coals ever seen ......

You keep trying to justify how great Tony has been - it makes it too easy to rub your nose in their complete lack of achievements ...

Is interesting how the same news can be reported by others. Here is what the Guinea Minister of Mines & Geology had to say at Indaba yday. So i wonder was he quoting the senior analyst at CRU Group or was the senior analyst the news wires.... For sure, the Minister is going to big up production volumes at his Indaba audience - anyone in their right mind thinking an African country can go from zero to Hero ie 120m tonnes of ore in 2 years has an agenda. And the agenda likely isnt good. If Zanaga is a good / real / proper project, best we keep things real.

What do you think MM ??

Guinea expects the giant Simandou iron-ore project, which is expected to begin production by December, to achieve maximum output by its second year of operation. The government projects the two mines at the world’s largest untapped iron-ore deposit will produce 30-million tons each in the first year, Mines and Geology Minister Bouna Sylla told Bloomberg TV in an interview. Output is then expected to double to 60 million tons at each cite the following year, he said on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town.

For a mine “to arrive at 60 million tons, that will take roughly two years because you have the ramp-up time,” Sylla said.

The Simandou project is divided into four blocks, with blocks 1 and 2 controlled by Winning Consortium Simandou, backed by Chinese companies including China Baowu Steel Group. Rio Tinto and Aluminum Corp of China, known as Chinalco, own blocks 3 and 4. In addition to its iron-ore deposits, Guinea is also the world’s biggest exporter of bauxite, a raw material used to make aluminum.

Again, and at risk of sounding like a broken record - Tlou have always been good at looking at uses for their gas reserves / resources. The problem is using them to create money, rather than always spending money &/or talking a good game.

For that, we have Tony, Clueless and team and Brad. The rubber has to hit the road sometime - and in Tlou's case, that has proved rather elusive for a long time .... And now they are talking about a Data Centre or suchlike out in the bush at their Lesedi camp - do any of you know WTF that actually is? And how far from anywhere that is ......

Winni - Tlou were neither slow nor measured back in 2017-2019. They were as aggressive as anyone at putting out great sounding news as we all remember, and further ramped by idiots like Tidd and MM and Buzz (the greatest tawt of them all).

That Tlou is now slow and measured is simply because they have had to learn harsh lessons - but cant say so publicly.

For what it is worth, I reckon TG has pretty much given up trying to influence the speed of things here - he knows he cannot change the system.

As for Botala - they also have precious little money in the bank so their presentation is fancy - yes. But it is also very aspirational and is unlikely they will achieve any timeline other than something in next 1 or 2 months. But they are trying - presenting at Indaba is something Tlou or Sekaname never did. Having the 121 outfit promote them is a plus for Botala - they can reach places Botala guys only dream about.

But then, if their project was sufficiently great they would not need the likes of 121, so ......

Oh right, silly me - dedicated means some to this and some to that ..... How could I have been so stupid not to understand.

You are absolutely right - surely the price will rise on this amazing gem piece of news. And if it doesn't (yet again), dont worry, its all part of Tony's grand plan.......

They could be in business any day now - oh really? Is that what the first 3 lines of the quarterly actually meant ...... How absolutely dumb of all of us not to spot that. You really are a truly amazing clairvoyant ...... You powers truly have no limits !!

This tonnage is saying the ore is all DSO overseas - ore that has been dug up, loaded and immediately shipped. Ie no beneficiation on site - so talking about 62% or 67% grade and price is redundant. And to go from zero to 60m tonnes in year 1 and double that to 120m years 2 exported - not many things work this well in Africa in my experience.

We have seen the latest string to the Tlou bow / strategy - gas to power generation for BPC and a computational Facility (whatever that is). Fair enough - not quite the taking over the world ambition we heard about back in 2017 when things (we all hoped and expected) were about to get going.

Now lets look at the newest entry to Gas in Botswana - Botala Energy (the old Strata-X). Here is link to their presentation at Mining Indaba in Cape Town this week. I leave it to you to decide who has the more ambitious management team in place.

https://bte2.live.irmau.com/pdf/3407be6d-18c1-44c5-8a24-03c6b3963201/121-Conference-Presentation.pdf

I give them top marks for trying for sure. How this works at a Facility out in the bush at Lesedi will be interesting to see - assuming it comes to anything. Where does it say "4 is dedicated to it? It doesn't - you read their blurb and fantasise in your own parallel universe something else entirely.

PS the clue is in the announcement - the planned Facility can be done in parallel with supply of electricity to BPC......

As for your other gibberish blaming substation delays etc all on covid - er again No. Just a yet again example of bad planning and bad execution and bad messaging by a management team that seems to have learned nothing about the real problems of boots on the ground in Botswana. Still they are managing to draw half or quarter salaries all the while nudging the smallest, most expensive ever CBM pilot POC to some sort of outcome.

An outcome that is far from being assured - if you read and understand the comments headlining the recent quarterly report. Must admit, I am intrigued by their comment that this computational Facility POC has been completed within a power generation POC that itself has not been completed - I wonder if this is their best yet effort at smoke and mirrors ...

Of course, others will see it differently - Tlou and Tony are about to take over the gas market in southern africa. I wonder when this rhetoric will start up again .....

Like really Winni - what is it you think i am trying to claim credit for here ?!

I do deserve credit for trying to tell you and your muppet friends 5 years ago Tlou was not the 'sure fire, next best thing since sliced bread' that you all thought it was about to become - surely to goodness you are not going to criticise me for being consistent for so long ....

Does it really stick in your throat so badly that I have been consistently correct for so long here .... Jeez man, grow a pair.