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Placing jitters helped a few out to be able to buy. Simple fact is they raised last October to cover this year's drilling/field work. There's money from warrants if this goes high enough for them to convert and Verkhuba deal will give them plenty to kick on with. Alex knows how to get maximum value out of every quid spent.

Reads well. Licences rationalised. JORC imminent. Field season will be action packed (other VMS targets to be drilled, Verkhuba too). Interesting to see if BHP follow up with further investment. Real spread seems to be 3.2p-3.4p. At least they're offering buy quotes within the spread now.

Try out dummy quotes. They're happy to take them off you but won't offer a buy quote within the spread. Of course it's only 9 trades when no one is selling and they're putting off buyers.

These Malevolent Morons still at it! 3.177 print is a sell. Totally false spread. Mark it up already and do your damn job!!!!

I concur. NT to buy small amounts, premiums for even £5k. Eager to take them off above bid. Let it go, MMs, no one buys the false early AM shakeouts.

Ilwella/Flannery know a thing or two about deals in the commodity space. Will be important.

Think we get a small bump up given drilling showed thicker intersections. Key will be commentary around it like potential NPVs and any data room update. One offer in already seems to be the stalking horse. Could be a nice little beauty parade. Who's playing Cilla Black?

Can't fight a war without copper.

924k from 10th looks like a sell. But good to see it was absorbed without killing the price. Expect sideways/retrace until final results. Expect good forward guidance and bullish going concern statement (no need in short term for funding, confident of JVs/Verkhuba deal etc), then the JORC.

Https://astanatimes.com/2024/03/kazakhstan-us-strengthen-partnership-in-geological-exploration-with-ai-integration/

Found this link off X, Alex spoke at a State Department talk on Kazakhstan and critical minerals. https://www.state.gov/critical-minerals-and-mining-equipment-in-kazakhstan/

Whet the appetite. They did the PR round prior to drilling results in December

Missing out that they've received an offer already. I feel bad for you Earl, not since Elvis has anyone strained so hard to push a turd like you have with CMRS

I said this about the copper last August, it was never a REE to copper pivot. "Copper has always been the main asset. Seems he wanted to avoid a high risk binary play so had gold and then REE licences. In interviews last year he kept saying optionality. This year he's said good was ready to drill first. In other interviews and RNS he's mentioned involving VMS experts and on LinkedIn they've had another one come in for a field visit. This is the jewel in the crown, always has been, they've got a JORC estimate before any major drill so not a Greenfield like the gold was. Market looks at it like a crap shoot when it's had the most time and attention devoted to it."

Were you the tool calling this a lifestyle company? When the CEO took a pay cut, participated in every raise and lives in country? Which orifice were you speaking from when making those defamatory comments? Not sure what kind of idiot buys a share in one tranche instead of scaling in. Quite arrogant when even the best investors recommend cost averaging as you can never predict the bottom. But you obviously have psychic powers and don't take accountability for your mistakes.

From 10 January 2022 "East Star, the Kazakhstan-focused gold and copper explorer". Rare earth was in May. Hence from the "get go" gold and copper were the main focus as they acquired those licences pre RTO. Hope this helps.

It was copper from the get go. They picked up a rare earth asset for nothing and quickly moved on after it wasn't that promising.

No thanks. If you're in it, you're just collecting mugs to dump on.

It would be hard to get a stake here given how illiquid it is. On top of that, Alex, other co-founders and Ilwella own enough to repel any hostile bids. On top of that, a lot of the value here is in Alex's know how on the ground along with the data and team he's built. Crux say the data they've obtained would usually cost $20 million to put together from scratch

1. Verkhuba is just one prospect on the VMS licence. Talovskoye looks very promising, see rock chips results. They're drilling new targets provided by Mitre Geophysics. Look up Kate Hine.

2. BHP grant. They've pegged ground near CAML's Kounrad. If fieldwork shows prospectivity, BHP could provide follow on investment.

3. Getech JV. See RNS, they've said specifically they're going to build up data and attract investment for that. Low cost to EST to send a field team out and Getech to provide their AI analysis for a 5% stake in the JV.

Copper assets alone hugely promising and worth a lot more, even if you just price in Verkhuba alone.

Oh and there's gold licences that could get disposed of as well. More than 10km of strike with potentially economic grades. They have a JV with the state mining company on that.