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Okay, EvenKeel, I'll go along with your thoughts - you've made a fair case and as you say time will tell. But time does have a significance for me too because I have lived more years than many others here and I hope to continue a comfortable and enjoyable lifestyle, as has HRH, ...but such also requires steady income.

A few years ago I found it quite amusing that O'Leary (Ryanair) suggested he was going to put Easyjet (then Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou controlled) out of business. Both airlines have had their " ups & downs" over the years but overall investment therein would have proved pretty good. I did not get in quick enough but In the fullness of time I did note that Mexixo had de-nationalized its railroads and most passenger services had come to an abrupt end....which basically meant that public may need to rely on long-distance buses to get around a very large country. On the basis that a single bus might move about 40-50 people something like 1000 miles in 24 hours, the boast of a new Mexican airline that it hoped to persuade bus passengers to use its planes instead seemed a reasonable argument...especially when a single plane might carry five times the number of passengers and perhaps complete 5 round trips during a similar 24/7 duration for a bus. About this same time the Mexican regime had intervened and stopped all services of the then " major" indigenous airline (Azteca). 3 years have passed and during that time the airline industry has experienced three unpleasant " shocks" , due to world events but in most cases appear to be now looking forward to prosperity once more. In my case those same three " shocks" created an opportunity to gain a 3 bagger improvement in each case. Yes, EvenKeel, I struck lucky but it rather points to careful research so as to avoid long waits and impatience and I do think Salinbas is still a long way away. Venus Minerals may have a long way to go as well and Panther (PALM) appear to have fallen somewhat.

Hi EvenKeel. My opinion...your response. But patience? That's something else...it's taken AAU a very long time to start bringing home the bacon....in my case probably around 7 years (I think). Just bear in mind the sad tale of Sirius (SXX). Tony Blair even crowed about it. It was going to be the real wonder of the age. Tell that to all the patient local Yorkies hoping for jobs and many folk on our own LSE boards here who, unlike me, seemed to be comfortable with maybe a decade oif waiting before the product , polyhalite, was available. I smelled a " large hamster" and got out in good time. I increased my shareholding here in AAU and, thanks to Kerim's diligence I didn't finish up in that other only too real fertilizer! Enjoy your Holiday.

Your subject heading , PaulD, will suffice and especially the US dollar reference to motivate me to a few words. I have not had much incentive lately to get into comments. ..So, not " getting at" anyone specifically but airing a few thoughts...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex-currencies/091416/what-would-it-take-us-dollar-collapse.asp

Then there is giold. Something like 2-3 years ago folk here were extolling gold and a potential climb in values. I took the opposite view on the basis it was a " hss been" and now something which is little more than a wish to buy jewellery as perhaps a future way out if one is really in deep trouble. I'm not seeing its price rocketting over the $2000 mark these days in spite of the words of wisdom we have heard regularly from " those in the know" . Then there is the current position with AAU/Ariana. We're all ''hooked" awaiting a divvi which could perhaps meet our dreams. Meanwhile the sp goes down and down and down. I remember suggesting early last year to ya'all that our share price was going to be a roller coaster perhaps for years until the Salibas " thing" happened. I also suggested that investing in Royalty companies was a better choice.. Maybe I got that bit wrong...all their shares are going down too. But then so are gold miners.....many (like HUM and CNR) considered good bets for recovery.. "Metals" aren't doing well either (WRES a good example of wealth very soon (lol).

John has consistantly raised concerns ever since it was suggested that we were going into a bigger partnership with a much smaller piece of the pie. I also hate myself for admitting you were spot-on, Paul D, but in all probability you were right in suggesting the six pence share price last year was a good time to sell.

So do not be surprised if we have a very long wait until any divvi actually reaches our banks and the old Ariana, as we knew it, has long been bought out by Ozaltin ...whats a few more lire for a firm that size to find - it might even run to Proccea as well?

Which just leaves Dr K. He's learnt much and done great things since being a student. Hopefully he is financially very comfortable and free to live where his family prefers and do what he enjoys. I feel he has already made good on his promises to many of us older investors here . But just maybe AAU is now metamorphosing and we shall not see the likes of 6p share value again. Similarly the awaited " divvi" may be far less than some may be expecting and by then the ex-dividend effect will have kicked in and the sp fallen even further.

No ....... Ladies & Gentlemen..... To day is not about where the price of gold, silver, the USD or the post-brexit quid is going. It's all about the DARK MONEY. (the unaccountable accumulation over the years by hierarchies .. from oil, railways, shipping lines, banking/finance, stripping natural resources and sometimes by colonization and conquering others). It can be for Charity or overthrow

Drip,drip and our sp continues downward. Deano pointed out that we hit a high last Summer over 6p so on that basis my stock value (and his) has fallen considerably since and maybe we should have sold then and now be considering buying into a potential coming divi.

But even so...are we then going to find that any gain from a good divvi is immediately countered by its ex-dividend value?
.....and this Ariana drip, drip going to continue with a few exploratory diversions and speculations for some years until the world economy upturns, the gold price truly rises spectacularly in quick time and our greatly- reduced ownership of the Great Salinbas hope finally materializes.? (Meanwhile our Dr K bought into a fair chunk of Panther metals). I can't help wondering if I " missed the boat" last Autumn. (or in my case missed the plane by selling out my Volaris !).

The answer is there ..it's all about time lapse. Over a year now since the changes were "rung" but the deal still ain't finalized and we shareholders haven't voted. Yes, a divvi might create interest....but when? This year, next year or whatever. Will Cyprus increase revenue quickly inward or worry investors while exploration and development kicks in. That 6p sp a few months ago could well have been the green light...as Ash says..there are other opportunities these days (though I haven't experiences anything other than ruefully thinking how how I dismissed (and bailed out of) Parys Mountain and all of AYM (Anglesey Mining) a few years ago in despair of them ever bringing in the bacon.

H3RO - It seems to me that John and yourself are basically saying the same thing in terms of the potential gain to investors in the short term. In the longer term it is highly probable that any initial drop in the SP after the " ex-div" cut-off has occurred will be counteracted by good results as AAU hopefully increases its production & income as it expands its mining interests. However from my personal perspective the SP has already exceeded my target when I originally speculated and I may not choose to wait for " jam tomorrow" ....so a reasonable dividend has much appeal right now. Happy New Year to All Y'all.

Thomas C : I was once invested in Mexico's Arian Silver . I misspelt the name once , got into Ariana, moved my investment here instead (most fortuitously)and stayed all the way from less than 1p to the present sp.

According to Forbes, Donald Trump has not given a dime to his reelection campaign, opting instead to fund the entire effort with his donors’ money. His business, meanwhile, has continued to charge the campaign for things like food, lodging and rent. The result is that $2.2 million of contributions from other people has turned into $2.2 million of revenue for Trump.

And that’s just counting the money flowing directly through the president’s campaign. His reelection apparatus also includes two joint fundraising committees, which work with the Republican Party to raise money for Trump. Since he took office, those entities—named Trump Victory and the Trump Make America Great Again Committee—have funneled another $2.3 million into the president’s private business, according to a review of Federal Election Commission records. Then there’s the Republican National Committee, which has spent an additional $2.4 million at Trump properties. Add it all up, and the president, working in concert with the party he leads, has helped push $6.9 million into his businesses since taking office.

Well, Paul, your "Heels Up Harris" , after her Attorney General experiences is just the right gal to get to the bottom of these sort of allegations and, unlike Biden , she has not indicated that she might not go after the Groper. Then there's the State of New York all ready to get him too.

I'll look forward to all that while I'm waiting for my divvi from Ariana. So will our Military too after he called them " suckers" . ' Nuff said for now...January 20 will be here soon enough.

Paul D - The scenario you have quoted (attributed to Jenna Ellis, Trump Campaign Attorney) is technically possible but it would mean proving there was serious fraud and that the decisions made by States based on counting the electors' votes were accordingly wrong. All our States have now confirmed and signed off on their results/decisions and the Electoral College voted earlier this week in favor of Joe Biden as President-Elect.

Accordingly any objections to individual State Returns ( i.e. on January 6, 2021) only carry weight if they're signed by at least one Member each of the Senate and House of Representatives. In such case, the Joint Session recesses and the two Houses separate and debate the question in their respective chambers for a maximum of two hours. Under Federal Law, each session cannot last more than two hours and no member of either House may speak for more than five minutes.

The two Houses then vote separately to accept or reject the objection . If both the Senate and the House agree, then that State's votes are tossed and the threshold to electoral victory would shrink. The House is still controlled by Democrats, albeit by a slimmer margin, so even if the GOP-controlled Senate were to reject a State, there's essentially no chance that the House would. Lawmakers can object to individual electoral votes and State returns as a whole.

Finally, Justin Levitt, a constitutional law expert and professor at Loyola Law School, said it's "simply not conceivable" that either Chamber would reject any of the electoral votes "because there is no reason to reject any of the votes" . He suggested that any objections on January 6 would be simply a chance for "political theater."

Hi Raredragon and I was concerned for you so it's good to see your post. I've been kinda busy moving home.....in fact I'm now about 2,300 miles closer to that Christmas parcel you are being sent. Don't forget to mark it "Return to Sender" and don't let that prat get to you. He clearly enjoys riling people up (just like his god-emperor we are getting rid of!). May AAU continue to makes us all Happy & Prosperous in 2021.

Melania O'Faherty of course - Not as good a fiddler as Donald Trump.though.... Dream on..... and yer David Cameron drowned poor Britannia in 2016 somewhere off the Isle of Man. He reckoned she was too "intent and not cordial".

(Begorra and Bejaysus...Oim gettin as daft as yew, Paul !)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6hmqAHE1gk

Melania of course

I gave it a pre-wash, Paul and quite a lot of dye ran out but it's been fine since.

Yeah - I told you it arrived from Isle of Wight just seven days after ordering. I got dark blue with Ariana logo and lettering "Ariana Resources".

Okay, Paul, but I referred to (and quoted a definition of) World Governance whereas you have now come back with the then Labour Government's 1964 Manifesto specifically looking to World (Global?) Government which is not the same thing. Accordingly it would seem only fair to now quote Littlehampton Academy on this alternative subject...

"World government, by contrast, refers to the idea of centralised authority operating through a single, supranational body. Strictly speaking, such a government would involve the establishment of a monopoly of the use of force worldwide, as well as the surrendering of sovereignty by individual states. However, the most versions of world government are based on the idea of world federalism, in which the central authority is vested with supreme authority in relation to certain functions, while state governments continue to have jurisdiction in relation to other functions. While global governance aims to containing the pressures generated by anarchy, world government would banish anarchy altogether by establishing and enforcing an international rule of law, sometimes seen as world law. Although the League of Nations and the United Nations were often presented as early prototypes of world government, neither has come close to realising this goal."

If you want to go round and round the mulberry bush ...so be it. ...but for myself I'm very happy that Trump is not just "going out" but probably going to be in serious legal trouble when he can no longer invoke Presidential protections , which should kick in next January. Accordingly your "Emperor Trumptious" most definitely needs to Beware the Ides of March! Et tu, Dude?

The pupils of Littlehampton Academy , a school for ages 11-18 in West Sussex UK), have suggested that :

"Global Governance, broadly, refers to the various ways in which social life is co-ordinated, of which government is merely one. Global governance refers to the various processes through which decision-making and co-operation at a global level is facilitated, operating through multilateral systems of regulation. At the heart of the emerging system of global governance is the UN and its various bodies, together with the institutions of global economic governance, notably the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF. Rather than imposing their will on individual states, the processes provide the framework for the development of intergovernmental relationships, reflecting a growing acceptance of global interdependence. Global governance does not only involve intergovernmental bodies, but also the participation of non-governmental actors such as NGOs, national corporations, global capital markets, citizens’ movements and so on".

Okay, Paul...but give us all a clue...what do you expect to unfold? At least most "end-of-the-world" predictions put a date on the event.

If our former Secretary of State (Tillerson) can so brand Trump, I don't feel bad about similarly branding your man Pieczenik who has claimed that Osama Bin Laden had died of Marfan syndrome in 2001 shortly after the September 11 attacks, and that the attacks on the United States on 9/11 were part of a false flag operation by entities within the American government. He also slammed President Barack Obama by calling him an "obsessional pathological liar.”

Yes, I accept that there is much dislike of the USA across the world, Joe Biden is determined to address that....but the thing is that the applications to immigrate here haven't slowed down any.....even under Trump!

You just watch Bo-Jo climb down over his Internal Market Bill. Imho he was a wannabe Trump anyway....or maybe now he doesn't.

Anyway...more to the point... Care to predict Ariana's sp by Autumn 2021?

Thanks for that, John, and what is being said in Nevada (and maybe Arizona too) is that "On November the Third we flushed a Turd ! "

It seems, DEANO, that your "Emperor" has now lost his clothes and all your rhetoric, including your current mention of moronic Steve Piezcenik), brands you as a real big girl's blouse notwithstanding your twerking FlashHeart "hero" together with your sick jibes about octogenarians and even some of our fellow contributors on this site. So.... since you like to direct folks to websites from time time....I will reciprocate especially for you with Jimmy Kimmel, in keeping with current events.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ECkVCEKtU

Do bear in mind also that the previous US Administration did not reckon much to Brexit and even suggested that the UK might find itself at the end of the queue if it went down that path and subsequently felt it was entitled to a "Special Relationship" in re-negotiating trade deals with Washington. Don't be surprised if Joe Biden soon heads for Berlin. I also think you were wrong to dismiss the influence of Ursula von der Leyen and Sir Keith Starmer (both of whom I suggested would be rising stars in the political world. I'll even include Rishi Sunak too.)

Paul - You are loquacious and do contribute some very good views on this board about Turkey and both mining and financial matters. I can accept that you may well have different politIcal thinking (or even background) to myself but I really cannot understand why you want to diminish your stature by indulging in prevarication or even provocation....unless of course you get "kicks" from trolling. Do not, however, expect me to regularly respond to your whims. After all, today's news is rather a special and splendid occasion for many of us on this side of the pond. Let's hope that the stock exchanges around the world will now settle down somewhat, gold will continue to rise and Ariana shares will indeed look much better by Christmas.

Just 7 days from Order to Delivery ( I.O.W. to Nevada.) Now that is impressive!

Hi John and nice to see you with a post on here again. I was somewhat concerned for you. The same is true for Raredragon who has also been absent after quite a regular flow. I am not sparring with Deano - clearly he does not support a divdend and I do.