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Pdub, I will agree, there were many well researched posters on LSE, at the time I believed it to be the best researched board there was, and I've also largely left lse for the same reasons and spend much of my time on an equally well researched EUA forum to get away from those that benefit from doing a share damage. I'm not here to deramp, subtley deramp ..............or purposely get anybodys back up, unless of course shots are fired in my direction first and then I'll happily trade blows. However, well researched as the LSE BMN board was, and to be fair it was forensic at times, genuine inexperienced posters without any axe to grind or alterior motive were often shot down whilst making genuine albeit maybe naive questions. It was often a fire first, ask questions later approach and it was generally done as a group. I'm not saying there weren't scrotes that deserved to be shot down from all angles, but there was quite a lot of collateral damage too. To me, the term 'old guard' isn't derogatory. I will argue quite a few of them came across as miserable so and so's and in real life I would probably have found certain members too arrogant by far to have wanted to ever have a conversation with, but they had courage in their convictions and defended the share to the hilt. I just feel that many of them (yourself, Rich Ken, possibly BBN accepted, don't recall them all) would have ended up with numerous black eyes and bloodied noses if they spoke to people in person the way the did online. That 'old guard' as well as some of the more reasonable posters will have lost a lot of people a lot of money not allowing the broaching of any questioning that would consider the potential for a SP downturn. Now you'll probably say they should have done their own research, and you'd be right, but when there was hours and hours of daily research and fast paced discussion going on almost 24/7 its pretty hard to get off that fast moving train.
Before you think I've got an axe to grind, I managed to get off the train in the highest twenties and went all into EUA with my BMN funds mostly around 2.6p, so have 10 bagged from here, so as I've said, no axe to grind, and think the current SP should it hold is an entry point I will gladly spread some of my SIPP returns into.
I'm probably rambling, and missed the point I wanted to make, but I think the 'old guard' with their arrogance, bad attitude and inability to consider there may be trouble ahead actually created the monster this board became because by the look of it huge numbers of posters just joined in to bait and frustrate them. As I said, its a shame they took all 'non party line questioning' as negative and they caused their own problems with their lack of humility.

Haha. Honestly not purposely being provocative. I wish I had charting skills, so I am definitely not him. BMN is a stock I've held and intend on returning to in the not too distant future. However, when I first invested in late 2018/19 ish as a very naive investor who had done their research and discovered a very well run business, I did get pulled along by the outlandish predictions of where the SP would end up in the short, medium and full term, and was so convinced by certain posters that i never thought there was any chance of the SP dropping below 10p. Like a fool, I piled in even in the high 40's posting on here and getting the proverbial backslap and that'll look cheap in a month, by the end of the year, blah, blah.
I'm not here to deramp or cause friction, I still think the company has a great future, but one thing I will say is the reaction to me even mentioning Chartist just goes to show whilst many of 'the old guard' have left( why would you have a problem with me using this phrase?... ) those that remain are entrenched and refuse to be think outside their comfort bubble. It a shame really people get so confrontational over nothing these days. Can't be good for your health.

Real talk xd, another one filtered.

Was invested here a while ago, selling up to go big into EUA pre suspension. Wasn't expecting the ride I've had at EUA and thought the deal would have happened by now and I would be piling some sizeable profit back here and hopefully put myself in the position of having a decent free carry in the not too distant future. I think those moves aren't far off happening, and what I'm about to say will probably met with some derision, but I do miss Chartist2. He actually called it spot on more often than not despite many of the old guard not giving him the time of day because a dissenting view on a rising SP was at best frowned upon. Wonder where he's posting now?

I will hazard a guess MrYFronts that nobody cares what your opinion is. LTH are here for the big dividend. Noise is irrelevant.

In fact not just gold, but all precious and essential metals for greener industries/ big infrastructure. I'm big in Eurasia Mining, almost 90% big- (Palladium, platinum, rhodium etc), but also looking to diversify into copper, silver, rare earth metals, uranium when hopefully their asset sale goes through and dividend drops.

Agree with Sector Inspector. Will be a bull run on gold juniors, gold in general. Check out Mark Moss, Stansbury Research and Kitco news on you tube. They break down (especially Mark Moss) how fiat currencies in printing more notes are creating a situation where there's more notes for the same amount of goods, services and assets available to buy thus creating inflation. People in the know then put their devaluing cash into real assets with value including gold, and the gold price rises up. Gold miners from early stage to big producers then get better returns - costs of extraction vs price per ounce sold. This even makes previously unprofitable reserves worth mining again.

Wraith, can you elaborate on your land clawback covenant please. I have 7-8 acres just outside Stratford Upon Avon and get a peppercorn rent for grazing rights. Thanks.

Tùuuuuuuuuuuuune, from the greatest album ever.

Sold out of Tils at about £1 to go almost all in to EUA expecting it have sold by now. Haven't kept up to date with whats been going on here, but saw todays drop and thought I'd take a look. Surprised its currently at these levels and possibly going lower from its highs of about a year ago.

Do you mean delete all the asterisks? Tried it and doesn't work?

Thanks for the link. Just confirming what I thought because this site says 6m

Pokerchips, mcap here is @£24m not 6m, is that correct? Just starting to research this and hoping to get in at current prices (or lower) if i can trade out of other stocks. Looks at or near bargain basement price to me, definitely huge upside.

Must admit Faramog, I spend most of my time on Telegram and next to no time on lse nowadays, its become too much of a cesspit.

3 figure renumeration isn't what I'd call handsomely paid :-)
Not been here for some time since selling out a couple of years ago, but wasn't expecting this board to be as negative as this. Obviously would research before making an investment decision, but from the tone of some of the less bullish long term holders this looks less of an opportunity that when I sold up intending to return and load up.
Do any of the bullish LTH still view this as 'the best share on aim?'

Sold out here near enough breaking even (not sure if slight loss/profit) after 3-4yrs holding, with the intention of buying back. Put the money topping up further in EUA expecting completion of deal and funds available to re-invest. Not kept abrest of latest news here other than rns's or at all in PET, but if by the sounds of it PET is dodgy, its pretty much the same people involved with different projects. I think if I do decide to invest here again it will be to trade myself a position to free carry and put in the bottom drawer. Its too frustrating an investment to hold any other way.

Lol, some of you muppets just don't have a clue. BG engineers aren't among the highest paid engineers in the industry, far from it. The company will say the whole 'package' is comparable but there's parts of the package that not many engineers will actually use. Engineers want pounds in their pay packets, not offers and discounts on Sainsburys, cinema cards, childcare vouchers etc.
It makes me laugh to see you hypocrites backing the management to reduce engineers conditions when each and every one of you in the same situation would be screaming and crying like a little *****.

.....and I don't drive a big car :-), but I would imagine you've just tarred me with a brush you should have used on yourself. Maybe you're not Cun-trarian after all, just so poorly endowed your manhood isn't detectable.

Contrarian, I hate to burst your bubble about the 1000 apprentices, having been through the process myself, the youngest were early twenties up to mid fifties. Often employees made redundant in other business areas and bringing a negative perspective of the company with them. It was termed an apprenticeship so that the company could claim funding from the European Union. Not sure where this will be funder now, but of the 52 weeks apprentiship duration required to falsify for funding, only 21 weeks were training with a single day in the training centre at week 52 to qualify for payment.
I'm not surprised that you have had negative experience with BG engineers though. I would also bend over backwards for the pleasant customers and do the bare minimum for the arrogant, self-centred rude ones.

Oh Cun-trarian. I so hope you're showing a massive loss on this and any other investments you may have. Me,I'm going through the motions seeing out my notice, sat at home most days without any call outs seeing as we are currently on emergency calls only. Living the dream, 2x contribution pension transferred to a SIPP this time last year and reinvested very successfully quadrupling my pot. Isa maxxed up in EUA at average 3.4p , just awaiting the deal, taking advantage of full pay for limited effort. As my pal would say "minimum effort, maximum gain", ( I use quotation marks because I'm directly quoting him). For my fellow engineers and union reps, keep up the good fight and don't let the armholes in and out of the company get you down.

****rarian, you couldn't have chosen a better name for yourself. IT contractor eh. Let's see you on £12/hr working in wet, cold dirty conditions sometimes in well dodgy areas , and unsociable on call hours. Stuck up pratts like you are the ones that need a reality check. You wouldn't last a week doing an engineers job and would be the whineiest little ***** out there.