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While we all look forward to a high return, best not wish our lives away, I don't know about you but I am not in a sprint race to a pine box, I am not going mahogany even if we do well.

Enjoying the moment and quite happy with each day ticking down slowly to the planned information release dates.

It identified a non swear word as a swear word, how empty the area is would cover it.

this programme is worth a watch to see how sp**** and small the various militia groups are and how small the army presence is in these areas.

supports what i have previously said a while back about these being the criminal trading routes between various countries. only seen the first two but this one focuses on people trafficking - what the british are calling refugees, probably the safest out of the the various trading to report to n, but still very dangerous.

he focuses on the worst pieces of border to cross, seems to often have to go round them - worth a watch.

but you will be surprised how small the cities are and how tiny the military patrols are. not the doomsday many report.

we all know that the trafficking gangs are a thorn in the side of all of the west but everything else trafficked over these borders will be a problem too as well as who they fund. probably the reason for so much exposure.

it covers northern mali and all the countries i previously mentioned and the associated groups.

100notout, yes agree also.

While we are focused on the reasons we are invested, Bernard needs to make this transition, after Bougouni is producing and the flotation plant operating I am sure he will already have bought the next prospect and he will have it all to do again, albeit at a higher level, but once Bougouni is in production investors will only accept a certain level of discount to value because at that stage some large investors will have some serious holdings.

This area where he has been weak needs addressing, he interviews well so no issues there.

Full focus on the website and a clear simple idea online method of none RNS updates.

i do think that the website now is major.

any investor reading an article, reading a comment or being told something by an investor today would check it out on the company website - companies usually want to highlight their strong points.

on the actual website itself, not presentations or documents, i don't think either hainan or 117m dollars is mentioned anywhere.

nor the upgrade in resource or that the manufacturer is now building our plant. nothing about hoping to spin the plant october/ november and nothing about production december this year.

in fact if you took the documents off the site then it just looks like a bunch of us talking ******.

Elcobble, re fully funded I agree is massive, other AIM shares with ever increasing total shares in circulation eating into the investors shares of the profits, Kodal is a good place to be.

At one point giving away 51% in exchange for being fully funded some thought expensive, looking at other AIM company dilutions it now looks very cheap.

Potentially less than 6 months before the plant spins during testing.

7 months to FULL production.

Everything going perfectly to plan so far.

Pencilled in dates for our updates along the way including a targeted 50m tonne resource.

Nobody can tell how other investors think today, either their view generally with investment or in the current global climate as portrayed by the one trick pony media. But somewhere along the way many others will pile in.

It is a brave person who stands up and says when that will or will not be.

Personally I am keeping my mouth shut on the subject.

Bernard said a website was being signed off.

On the site we are evaluating a DMS plant option, when it is actually being built and there are two.

Our latest highlight is Suay Chin offtake agreement, they are not going to be the offtake partner and now we have 100% offtake not 80%.

Etc etc.

Where is it? What event are they waiting for that they think is near enough to delay it?

Agree with Clapa, we have a scheduled resource update in June aiming towards increasing the resource to 50m tonnes.

We have a scheduled construction update in July.

A previous update was brought forward into one month earlier - but we don't expect this on every update.

So meantime it is a lull, but an RNS could arrive because we have a separate lithium deal, many other gold prospects and a regulatory RNS could be required for Bougouni, depending what they have been working on.

So busy at Kodal not so busy on here.

Most of the trouble in the region (Niger, Northern Mali, Nigeria, Libya etc) is connected to the war in Burkina Faso, movement and sale of arms etc between various places), yet still they are mining in Burkina Faso, even though the war has been going years.

https://m.miningweekly.com/article/west-african-reports-high-grade-gold-mineralisation-at-burkina-faso-deposit-2024-04-17

Horult, it is interesting and the availability of the raw materials too, that is the utopia that everyone is searching for and of course price to make them cost effective.

The website lets them down - little logic to it and cutting the top of people's heads off not great.

If it is a good company the website undermines that.

Potato, I think it will be great once the technology works economically for everyday families and it is very close if not already out there.

For people working from home, or heavy users and or in an area with electricity cables above ground subject to power cuts it is very good technology now.

If I did it today I would want the batteries outside the house and in a suitable enclosure.

There are some new silent wind generators which could really make a difference, a couple of small solar panels and a small silent wind generator would build up some power storage. You get the feeling we are very near now to cost effective self generation with the grid as a back up and potential source of revenue.

Potato head, I think that article may have got the detail wrong concerning a month, 4 days they can power the average British home, I know people who do it now, one big long range car lithium pack. You don't have to take it out of the vehicle, some cars have a socket, which providing you wire up the correct connection on your house, you simply plug in your car to the house and it will power the house up to four days if there was a power cut. But they are probably doing the system below:

People who have renewable energy on their homes which produce electricity are also setting up quite complicated lithium set ups. They work out the maximum energy they will use over a set period have the renewable energy power anything switched on it can cope with, when there is a surplus, charge the lithium batteries ready for peak use, then once charged put back into the grid and get paid for it. When they turn on anything electric it takes it from the renewable source and lithium batteries first, only going to the grid for energy when other sources no longer have sufficient energy - possibly in this situation a British home may last a month on a large car battery without being charged with the right set up.

Interesting the way it is going. Others are looking at cheap energy charging and releasing battery energy in peak times. Still quite new in many aspects.

Looks like sites may start charging a small annual charge to get rid of trolls and bots.

Hope so, we will see.

Clapa, trying to put it delicately, the short people nearest camera, Steve standing in a hole.

Https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/mixed-picture-how-mali-views-wagner-group

Not the conspiracy theory many paint - that is actually a well balanced website for all things war related.

If Iran gets embroiled in a costly battle they are unlikely to support these groups as before and the region may stabilise.

Regarding Barrick, they made the foolish and misguided mistake of saying that auditors were not doing their job properly allegedly in press reports

The previous mining code when introduced clearly laid out its aims and objectives in such a simple way that a child at school could understand what they were doing and why. Some mining companies found ways (some would say legitimate others would say pushing their luck) to get round these changes.

When called out by auditors and a government mining office for using these techniques smart az comments are not recommended assuming that the quotes are correct.

I wonder if Barrick used the same consultants as Leo Lithium.

This is no different to the UK, except in the UK you could not negotiate your way out of the full fine or removal of licence, in a regime they have a chance.

Research tree links not allowed it appears, try this one

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1044003/kodal-mineral-reports-significant-progress-at-bougouni-lithium-project-in-mali-1044003.html

all clarified in this video, mobilised fleet, initially construction, then after that surface clearing and top soil (top soil in mining will also be sub soil - removed separately and stored separately) then stripping is the next process.

https://*********************/media/kodal-mineral-reports-significant-progress-at-bougouni-lithium-project-in-mali

MikB, gets me regularly too lol.

Sharebug, Bernard mentioned something about top soil so maybe it is surface debris/scrub plant removal and placing topsoil to the side for afterward reclamation work.

Stripping may only be the ground above the veins excluding top and sub soil.

I will listen back through the videos tonight if I get time, but he didn't say a lot about it.