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Just catching up on 3 days posts. Surprised how long this discussion went on about card numbers! I don't know whether there are any rules about what numbers are permitted (for instance consecutive repeated digits) but assuming the rule is simple, including that any number of '0's are permissible in the 4 digits, then the answer is 1/10000 of the numbers being the same or (1/10000)^2 if you want a specific number on both cards like 4587. Someone got me for a second by saying 1, 2 or 3 digit numbers have to be excluded but that is incorrect as they just have 3, 2 or 1 (respectively) leading '0's, so are in the 10000.
The chances of 2 sixes from 2 dice is 1/36, of throwing a double of any kind is 1/6.
Trust me, I've got an MSc in Statistics!

Fingers crossed for me too. Unlike PP I don't have the confidence to top up here

And its been quite a good week for the shares.
Harry Ricardo was amazing, I came across this you tube video (hope the link doesn't get zapped) about the Rolls Royce Crecy engine which I had never heard of before. Its worth a watch if only to appreciate his brilliance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOFn0eTgdE8

ps 3.299p for 100000 is the current quote

Delay after delay at Tavsan
No discernible progress at Salinbas for years
A poorly negotiated replacement JV that gave away assets cheaply
A dominant JV partner who brings apparently little to the table
The promise of a a turbocharged Ariana that has turned into totally the opposite
A CEO constantly on the other side of the world with suspicions that his mind is on other projects much of the time
An IPO at Venus that shows no signs of happening

I know you have advocated board additions. I add the possibility of existing role changes, a new Chairman and splitting the role of CEO into a dedicated CEO and new created Technical Director role.

I fear this will be less than 3p very soon

A fine marble quarrying and finishing company with a business model so promising that they place their salvation on a very recent start up glass fibre reinforced gypsum shed company. Of course we can all see the obvious synergy there......
For the founders of said shed company, their success in business in just the few short months of their companys existence has been infinitely more impressive than that of the entire history of Fox. You couldn't make it up, sounds like the premise of a situation comedy which would be rejected for being too far fetched and silly. We are all trapped here, like participants in an escape room. Lets hope for a miracle in the court case because that is the only tiny glimmer of hope for shareholders here. .

I get your point TT but overall the history of Fox, which lets be honest is at an end, says otherwise.
I have been in and out here for quite a few years. Having listened to him years ago this appeared to be the biggest secret on AIM. He is a salesman, plain and simple. We had the promise of bottomless quantities of Italian grade marble just sitting there, talk of contracts in prestigious Chelsea developments, the Middle East, showrooms etc etc etc. What was the reality? A business so ill considered and hopeless that we got RNSs if a £50k sale was made. As NotMuchinSales so rightly pointed out there is more turnover in a corner shop. As investors (if you can call us that) all we can do is assess the information being put out, and that was always hyped. I think calling CG nice but dim was far far nicer than calling him a liar and conman, do you not think? He was dim because, lets face it, there was never a viable business here. Don't forget that while you and I have almost certainly lost every single penny of the money that we have so stupidly put in here, the Directors have been drawing salaries and pension rights. Maybe that makes us the dim ones?

jelly
I rarely comment on this board but you are completely out of order. That was unforgivable

DJ
If AAU still continues downhill I will be looking for a cheaper country to live in, let alone downsize

With good news about EVs.but this company down over a half from the IPO the message is clear. The market does not believe this business model.will succeed

Keeps getting better

Mick
I really don't have an answer. The only compensation I am interested in would be a reversal of my paper loss, which seems rather far off at the moment. Barring a bid, or support from the EU for miners due to Lithium importance, I fail to see what will generate that reversal without an actual and rather impressive plan from the Board.
I'm afraid that I'm a johnny come lately (no pun intended) who ended up with shares as part of the BCN takeover. However wanting Lithium exposure, which seemed a good idea at the time, I then foolishly purchased more, the consequence of which is I have an average of 12.6p (or 14.3p if I include my 'free' shares at 14.5p for CGT purposes).

Not someone I knew and not a GP. Anyway that's by the by, the point was that a not insignificant number of people wont go. In Birmingham there are 2 large 'spoons within half a mile of each other. The difference between them is marked - when offered a choice I always insist on one not the other.
Anyway, thanks for the chat, hope it goes well for everyone.

I looked at JDW a few years ago and decided against, Bought other shares and lost on them instead!
Without doing much (any) research it struck me that, full though the pubs clearly were, the per head spend was clearly small, the margins wafer thin, and growth prospects minimal or nil - there is near saturation in any worthwhile areas of the country. I have just opened the app sitting here near Ironbridge. It is suggesting 10 locations within 20 miles. And looking at the SP, it appears to be at the same level as October 2006 and declining. Add to that TM wont work forever.
Maybe the chain needs to shrink, selective closures (maybe the consistent underperformers in each area), bring the premises a little more upmarket and raise prices by say 20%. Their buying power would still be massive, net cashflow hopefully higher, wage bill and business rates lower, image enhanced to bring in people who currently shun them because of it. Make it somewhere you want to go rather than a cheap alternative. I was on a trip recently in a party that included a retired NHS doctor. We ate out every night, 6 of us. In Poole most were up for a 'spoons night. The doctor made it pretty clear 'spoons was beneath him so 6 people didn't go to there. Lidl and Aldi started too cheap but revised things upwards -go and check out their car parks these days

73p. Snap!

mick
'.......but where is the value for PI's ( since the SP's have lost 50-60%)?'.
Rhetorical question perhaps?!

mick my old chum, I really hope so! I am fearful at the moment as we seem to be caught in a perfect storm. Punters have lost confidence so the SP is tanking, the BoD think the Lithium will spontaneously leap out of the ground all by itself, and pretty soon we need to raise cash. This has 'takeover at a cheap price' written all over it unless of course it is forced into an even more drastic situation and someone picks it up in a fire sale. What is seriously making me angry (or should that be making me seriously angry) is that there is just no strategy whatsoever from the company - the easiest job at the moment is producing a new Zinwald presentation, I'd love to be asked to do it. Talk about money for old rope, all you do is copy & paste from the previous one a seach/replace a few dates. Jobs a good 'un.

Very naive question (so treat ne gently and don't shout) but, given that prices are so low in 'spoons compared to competitors establishments, why not simply raise the prices slightly? I was in one of the Birmingham City centre branches as couple of weeks back and they were selling Ruddles for £1.49 a pint. Nowhere else in the city centre would sell beer at less than twice that price

I am talking of the complete and utter inertia of the Board that has resulted in zero recent progress and no discernible plan to progress exploitation of an asset in one of the most, if not the most, needed strategic metal over the next decades.
I am more than happy to eat my admittedly scathing words put forward in recent posts if I have missed something. if anyone can tell me of any plans to reach the planned 'we want to be in production or around the surge in lithium demand due to EVs' (I paraphrase) then please tell me. The last cash raise, a few short months ago, was at c.15p. The SP is now 7.5p and declining virtually daily. So what price, what dilution, is the next raise going to be - I can see nothing likely to generate demand for the shares of this company at the moment hence my guesstimate of 6p? If things carry on the way that they are it could be 5p or 4p and result in hundreds of millions of additional shares necessarily being created to the huge cost of long term SP prospects for existing holders. From what I can ascertain from recent presentations/ interviews the no doubt highly paid CEOs only strategy is to hold on to the hope that the EU, or maybe the European car industry, will come to ZNWDs aid and effectively do his job for him.

I agree sham. This is the wild west, or should i say east. Putin hates how the west has undermined his unforgivable incursion in Ukraine. Seizing assets of western companies located in Russia is one small way he can get an element of revenge. Why does he care what judgements are recorded against him internationally? If there are any assets left after debts are paid they will be seized. I'm not being nasty, I'm being realistic. This is Putin getting petty revenge. Sadly in my opinion investors will never see a penny here. And if I were in Polymetal I would sell there too