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Ariana share price is up and to-day is our President's Day ....so have this one on me and enjoy! Regards, DJ

https://www.youtube.com/embed/WgOHOHKBEqE?feature=player_detailpage

One day someone else is going to post as well as me! Meantime we are into 2019 and my hopes of an improving sp appear to be going in the right direction. The sky could well be the limit!

Well spotted, Troajan. but our sp is down nevertheless and I suggested why in my previous post (last Tuesday). Nothing has changed that and President's Day (next Monday) means US exchanges shut so I guess we'll mark time a little. Meanwhile the cack will be flying around Westminster and Washington probably for the rest of this month. I think we'll still get to 2p for Easter though. Have a super weekend anyway!

What we have just seen is a burst of enthusiasm on this discussion board resulting from this most recent RNS. VanVan's assessment too (as per his post on ADVFN) is equally right to the point.

However LSE's own current news headlines, imho, puts the spotlight on our share price movement with "(Sharecast News) - London stocks recovered from a mid-session lurch on Tuesday as Theresa May's statement to parliament and a speech by Bank of England governor Mark Carney combined to undermine market sentiment that had been buoyed by positive signals from across the Atlantic.

So we've seen good news from Ariana combined with a rise in "The Market "sentiment overall.....only to be later dampened. It's Trump & May in the sidelines = Brexit,the Wall and China trade. We'll get to 2p by Easter!

jl5006 - "Varadkar - stop sending us your Irish cheddar - we have the real thing." I try to support Britain but very few products are offered in my local small-town supermarkets. Colman's mustard, HP sauce and Newcastle Brown are in evidence but no real Cheddar. Lotsa Canadian & Irish but no English. Very occasionally I can buy Welsh cheddar but it's about 50% dearer than Irish.

ClaretandBlue - Fair comments and I think you would enjoy Route 66 scenery and history through our SouthWest (think Disney's "Cars" (first film) and you can also "google " Oatman AZ) .

Pickups around here have kinda replaced the horse but there is a sort of bloody-minded faction that use them to bully their way around. Bodies raised high in the air, big bull bars, wider tracks and lotsa spotlights. Pain in the bum for me in a sports car 'cos those lights focus straight into my mirrors. Also they hog the outer lane and although it is legal here to "undertake" (I think that's your term to cut inside) one can never quite trust the other driver not to cut in on ya.
Then there are some genuine extended twin rear wheel pickups with a "fifth wheel" capability to haul 39 feet long camping trailers too.

Meanwhile Ariana continues to rise and I'm beginning to hope our SP might just hit 2p before my forecast of Easter for that.

John - I suggested it was a worthy successor because there is a certain iconic virtue here with an MX5 size,shape and practicability compared, say, with a TR7 or some mid-engined thing. Over here we had further choice of other "Farina" or "Touring" special coupés too, like Fiats, Lancia and even Peugeots which were lhd only . Most are now piles of rust but some have amazingly survived in our southwest arid climate and are worth megabucks and way beyond my means...even if AAU gets to 20p a share!

A Camaro just ain't for me ...I crack my head each time I get in or out and play peekaboo through its tiny windows. The bloody thing is straight out of "Transformers" ...I'd be waiting for it to evolve into something nasty while I was in the Mall shopping! (lmao). No Sir, I'll stick with my trusted Pony car.

Nice to see Ariana on the rise again today.

MX5, ClaretandBlue ? Nice little car (known as a Miata over here) and a worthy successor to Elans, MGBs and Fiat (or Alfa) Spyders of yore. Dunno if you are being offered Chrysler's new Fiat 124 Spider in the UK, which is produced in the Mazda factory in Japan and is basically a MX5 derivative......

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a15102059/2017-fiat-124-spider-abarth-vs-2016-mazda-mx-5-miata-club-comparison-test/

But the bottom line is that my fellow Americans are now very much into pickup trucks and SUVs, so much so that both Ford & GMC are seriously downsizing car production in USA but Mustangs, Camaros,Corvettes live on together with a lesser number of Dodge Chargers (whose owners presumably have fond memories of the "real" Charger, General Lee, from the "Dukes of Hazzard" tv series.

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Not so much "speculation", john, as my kinda reaction to rumors, hype (which I particularly don't like 'cos it encourages people to think they could make easy money....and then they lose their savings) and sometimes folks just trying to show off that they know a bit more than the rest of us. So I come back with a tongue-in-cheek or perhaps a contentious
or even fractious response. It's my version of drawing a red line or advising caution.

Anyway there have indeed been comments elsewhere about Dr Sener's interest in Panther Metals and whether this might have some detraction from his attention to Ariana. I suppose hitherto I have not really thought about him other than his geologist background and expertise and this info readily available on Bloomberg was quite enlightening - especially his earnings.

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=28541636&privcapId=23077460

Admittedly his appointment to Panther is as a Non-Executive Director. Any further views, guys (and gals)?

"Will we see 2p+ next week?" No, Sirious, probably not until Easter ...I told everyone that a while ago and hopefully 3p by early next year. I also said our SP, after falling last Monday will climb up again by today. It has. I'm the expert (not Sinclair) even if john calls me a cynic! ROTFLMAO and all you folks have a fantastic weekend. Sorry about the "brass monkey weather" your side of the pond. 72F here today and our northern snowbirds are in the casino swimming pools.

What goes up will come down. I know this 'cos I'm an expert.

Yes, john, but it looks like our SP has again been smacked by Brexit and US/China trade uncertainties. Hopefully it will get better by Friday. I could see the lights of our local open-pit mines last night which means 24 hrs production and Sunday working. That's got to be a good omen for precious metals.

Just for the record - OXO is the collective name for nationwide Mexican convenience stores, kinda similar to "Spar"or SevenEleven. Welcome havens if you need bottled water or your last meal is causing pressure! Yeeehaw!

Silver rising too, john,which is also very relevant now to Ariana's production. I've just transferred some of my sterling across the pond into dollars for the first time since last May. Keep it rising! Enjoy the Weekend everyone.

Your views and comments much appreciated, VanVan & john and also those of bigglesb on ADVFN. I don't do twitter.

Just taken missus out for dinner (casino) and my winnings covered that and a little more. When I got home I saw our SP has fallen slightly so in good faith and in line with your reasoning I've topped up with 130k of shares. My gamble, of course........and so to bed (02.38 here on a rather windy but clear moonlight night and 51F)

dcgc - Last summer, I advocated dividends or scrip issues for investors as a means of restoring confidence and perhaps improving the sp but the consensus on here (and ADVFN) opposed me on the basis that company cash would be better put to either paying off debts or further mine development.

The RNS refer to a "Court Scheme" to pursue this buy back. That gets into a far more professional terminology that would appear to be consistent with a FD who seemingly was not previously aware of how much money was in the cash tin. As johnpwh has just posted...." an RNS 1 minute before close of play?".

When the fist of these buy back RNS appeared, we had speculation on their reasoning, I guess because we were not informed of the intended purpose of the 4 million or so shares. It's still "open season" on that.

Finally - what exactly is sought under a "Court Scheme" anyway? It can be used in cases of takeovers. I think we need to see more detail. Right now I am getting whiffs of a dead hamster and we'll soon see how the Market reacts. I sincerely hope our sp hasn't peaked out yet again.

Noel - Good point about the effect on our share price ....we'll know in about 13 hours or so. I sincerely hope dcgc has interpreted things right.....but ???

John - Yes, I actually set last Christmas for my decision whether to "stay in" and accordingly I just managed to buy more shares before they increased in value by New Year ....so close in fact that I wasn't able to acquire all my target figure even though my broker had been funded. So I still have around £3k unspent and ready for any appreciable drop in price.

However I confess I am rather unnerved by this latest development. Is it just ignorance or incompetence or something more sinister rooted in this Company? I admit I am inclined to pessimism and distrust. To date we had our hopes dashed when AAU caused a dilution immediately before the first gold was poured. Then the directors got virtually what amounted to a hand out, which drew some adverse comments on several chat boards. Then criticism of their choice of "agents" with the Beaufort Securities thing. All these were kinda excused by posters here (and elsewhere) by suggestions that this Company was technically brilliant but somewhat naive in PR and administration. My own big concern was whether this was indeed the case or whether we might be getting into the all-too-frequent AIM scenario of a potentially scheming BoD helping itself to the creamtrough at the expense of the private investor.

All of which seemed reason enough for me last Spring to set myself a target date to decide whether I would stay in or get out (Gawd - sounds like Brexit ....ooops,... sorry in4cedros)

Consequently these last three RNS are worrying me again. Firstly they got their numbers incorrect and then it's almost like a kid went into a candy store, ordered up a clearly priced chocolate bar and then found he hadn't enough money with him. Bloody unbelievable, innit? How professional is that? ....unless, of course, the mind is distracted by the route to that trough and everything blooms in springtime - including perhaps an AGM.

Oh how the rampers will hate me. Earlier trading saw plenty of "sells"- imho opportunist profit taking. Mid day trading was about equal sells/buys but later trading was all "sells" perhaps (pessimistically) forewarned? Remember, folks, this is AIM ! Beware the Ides of March?

I sold quite a chunk of my Ariana to buy into Sirius last Summer but then I got cold feet because of the size of their project and the years it might take to come to fruition. In my estimation too many things might go wrong in such a time period. So I sold my holding and have since increased my stake here in AAU because I have confidence I will most probably be a good bit richer by early 2021. I can sleep much sounder with an sp undulating between 1.5p to 2.5p than one running from 20p to nearly 40p and all on one helluva lot of borrowed money. But that's IMHO.