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That’s bec the ticks still don’t work! It’s really annoying! Just had to buy my mum the Daily Mail - felt like throwing it in the bin!

I don’t pretend to know what’s going on bec it’s all so much bigger than me but I’m just going to do what I’ve always done with this share

Gosh we would have always wondered ‘where Bellers had gone’ - if you can get out of that you can def be our chief spy!

OR - I know both you and JR see things differently at the moment and you are both LTH’s of Sirius and I have appreciated both your posts over the years. I I think you both should be able to say what you feel on here and it’s been a good balance - I do get, as I’m sure many others do, how you've been feeling. I respect both of your views and it’s obvious you both what the best for this company. I sincerely hope that things work out so you can feel confident in getting back in with the half you sold and we can all look back on this period and think how did we ever survive it! We all have to make up our own minds, and I do, and not be influenced and whatever happens I can honestly say I have enjoyed JR’s positivity whether it’s right or wrong just as much as I have been able to relate to you. It’s sort of got me through these weeks together with the filter button! Hope everyone has a good weekend and thank you to all those others that have kept up with info! PS sorry I’ve used ‘both’ so much in this post but I’m too tired to think of a better way to put it!

If it’s the one I read on Monday - It’s on Sirius Minerals Investor Group not the Serious one. It’s under a post ‘Are you still digging or is the shop shut’. A comment from a guy who is leaving today. It was one of those threads that I read but thought it was a bit odd he was posting that if he worked there. But I guess if he’s leaving today he doesn’t care - which is what he said. I’m sure the way things are at the moment if it was a serious problem we would have heard about it.

Imo if you have truly written off your investment you would sell esp if you’ve a large holding. It’s hard to write off an investment when so much of what you originally believed in is still in place. Plus I think if anyone investing in a young mining company thought about how much cash was going to be needed no one would ever invest - bearing in mind the additional problems of Brexit and Trump/China that have arisen at this crucial time for Sirius. In my mind there is no doubt the mine will be built and local jobs saved and local area will prosper. The big question is what will happen to SH’s. Whatever anyone says the LTH’s in Sirius who always believed in the project and put their money where their mouth was (and I don’t count me in that) plus all those who live locally have invested in this company, been to local mtgs etc deserve and should still be part of this going forward - however long it has to take for them to get their money back and then make money. There are many first time inexperienced investors - people have put far more in than they should have done, risking their pensions - a mistake that they won’t repeat I’m sure, but for some it’s already too late so hopefully there will be enough time for them. But then Sirius is a unique, almost one-off investment opportunity which is why it’s attracted all the inexperienced pi’s - it has always been about the local area and giving back to the local economy. I don’t care how ‘unbusiness like’ I sound (and who cares bec this is just through my eyes) but i think it is something that if at all possible will be more than considered. We’ve already seen the media reports and it’s been reported nationally - it’s a big story. I think in discussions that are going on now CF and BOD will most definitely be very aware of the genuine investors who were prepared to help in the small way that they could in the early days. If I’m wrong or if the situation isn’t as I think it is then of course all that I’ve written means nothing. Business is non-caring, ruthless and thinks little of emotions but let’s hope in this company that has already proved so many wrong that they can do it again and stick two fingers up at so many on here and in the press that have doubted them

Government guarantee would be to support a company that is going to provide hope and employment to an area that is in great need of it - it’s a much bigger picture than bailing out shareholders

Must admit I was listening to LBC in the car this afternoon and caught the end of a phone in which was about North and lack of investment compared to South - perhaps even taking the control for investment etc from London. It does seem to be getting a lot of media attention at the moment especially in the South and of course the whole debate is much bigger than Sirius but Sirius is no doubt in these Brexit times is a fine example of how North could prosper. I was half expecting someone to ring in about Sirius - in fact was tempted to ring myself but phone in ended. Fingers crossed - I think it’s a hot topic at the moment which is attracting a lot of attention nationally.

I’m in a very crowded waiting room at the moment and thought I’d catch up on the board - took a sip of coffee as I laughed and you can guess what happened - I’m sure nobody in here would ever guess I was reading a share chat board!

magical_trevor - you should add imo to your last post - because who knows you just might be wrong

I saw it in the newspaper - I was very tempted in my summary to leave out headline, word troubled and note of caution - and add a few positive adjectives of my own! Good job I didn’t!

Just in a cafe and picked up a Times - short of typing it all out and without reading glasses it basically says days after having a dig at forums SM set investor forums abuzz with news of potentially life saving agreement. Said it had signed a deal with fertiliser company owned by Qatari state - two tonne a year commitment lifted SM bombed out share by 6%. Jubilation feels premature - before we produce polyhalite fertiliser must revive $3.8 billion financing plan. Another note of caution: Quatar’s Sov wealth fund also happens to own an equity in SM - gulf state has every incentive to keep SM star alive

Sirius Minerals shares climb after deal with state-run Qatari group
Potash miner’s stock rallies on supply and distribution fertiliser agreement
Sirius Minerals shares, which were hit last month after the UK potash miner pulled a $500m bond sale, rallied almost 10 per cent following its announcement of a supply and distribution agreement with a fertiliser company owned by the Qatar state.
The 2m tonne-a-year agreement with Muntajat, which brings the miner’s total offtake contracts to just under 14m tonnes, comes as the company has been working on a strategic review in order to keep a $5bn potash project in Yorkshire alive.
Sirius is planning a financing update for the end of the month. The aborted junk bond was required to unlock a $2.5bn financing package for the mine, and analysts said that it needed a strategic partner to take a stake.
Qatar, which is a leading nitrogen fertiliser producer, is a top investor in the potash miner. Sirius said it was working with Muntajat to explore combining the UK group’s product made from the mineral polyhalite, with nitrogen products to create a multi-nutrient fertiliser.
Sirius shares, which more than halved last month on the bond news, were trading at 3.7563p.

Thank you so much Beerbull - feel a bit like I’m on the scariest rollercoaster! But I do hope your investments are going well for you

Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor

We were all upset and disappointed with the news from Sirius Minerals a few weeks ago, and I was disappointed the Government didn't do more to help but, as I said at the time, this project will happen.

We in Teesside are used to overcoming adversity and when we get knocked down we get back up! Sirius are a great local business with that same Teesside mentality, which is why they're fighting back.

Today they've signed a deal with leading fertiliser distributer Muntajat to supply up to 2.1 million tonnes of product a year!

Sirius now has contracts in place that takes total peak sales volumes to 13.8 million tonnes a year.

There's still work to do, but I'm confident Sirius will secure the funding they need and deliver this truly transformational project.

This is welcome news following a difficult few weeks for Sirius and local workers.

It’s always been about LT for me - if I could just reduce my paper loss gradually - that’ would be good enough for me plus feel happier so I could take my filters off bec those green boxes are beginning to stress me out even more than the posts!

You are right Yuri but unfortunately I do think it’s down to individual investors however hard it is to try and judge it for themselves. We’ve seen on this board how some investors have felt uneasy and sold at various stages in the last year.

I don’t really get that. I used to work in advertising - had various media sold to me and I had to negotiate and then judge whether it was a good buy for my client based on what I knew after many years in the industry. Part of my job was then to sell the proposed national campaign to my client. I obviously believed in it as I had worked hard to negotiate it and I obviously sold it as hard as I could just like the media owner had sold it to me as hard as he/she could. How can you be a CEO and not believe in your company? Everyone knows business can be effected by global/national economy. It’s up to investors to research as much as they can - positive and not so positive and then make a decision for themselves and then continually review it to make sure it is still a good investment.

Goodie radio 4 live - then 6.45am

The thing is avocet at this stage now it has to come down to whether you trust CF to do the best he can for SH’s or not. And in spite of everything’s that’s happened I do and that’s why I’m holding. I might be wrong and there’s certainly enough people around who seem to think i am. But I can only do what feels right and if I’m not it’s my fault. I bought the shares, I held/am holding - I didn’t sell - my fault - my bad