RE: High grade implications12 Feb 2026 10:39
Element - I could just say truck off, but I will instead explain. I've been here circa 2 years and plan to stick around for a while yet. Extremely rare for me to be in an AIM share for so long. Whilst I do hold this share with a high level of enthusiasm, it's not enthusiasm that underpins this. It's because I believe OMI has a fantastic portfolio, on which it will go onto make a significant discovery (or two, or three!) AND a risk calculation I have made (see below). There are no guarantees of exploration success, and I know things can go VERY wrong - as Scallywag proved to me the last time I got so excited! But with £13 million and the exploration risk spread across 4/5 projects, two of which are already discoveries (Pepas and Apta), another which looks like it could well be upon further drilling (El P), the odds of exploration success here are as favourable as you are likely to come across in the exploration game. If you don't like the odds here, then exploration odds are not for you!
And so far, things have gone VERY well. Those who have been here over the last two years will know the 'calls and views' I have expressed, and whether they have come to pass or not. Calls made during the good times and the bad times in terms of the share price. I have a significant position here, all accumulated some time ago. Only two weeks ago, I was sitting on a 15 bagger (from my initial buy point). We were expecting the MRE and El P assays to land, but I tuned out completely as I have no intention of selling at this time or in this zone. It's not enthusiasm, or exhuberance, or ramping, but down to a few simple factors:
1) We have £13 million and are literally only just about to ramp up. This means the story is only just starting!
2) Shares are trading below 40p. I consider sub 40p to be the normal base level value (or call it sentiment) zone for OMI.
3) The real prospect, as I see it, and based on the portfolio situation, of a moon shoot event occuring here to propel the shares out of this zone and to new heights. We've come close already, and as I say, are at the opening chapters of this story, or at the start of the £13 million spend.
So overall, my risk calculation if you like, is that even if we don't get that moon shoot event occuring, which takes us out of this base level zone and new heights, I am VERY confident that simply the unfolding and telling of the story itself, the attempt to make discoveries, with the anticipation/sentiment that brings, will (and at various points) take us back towards the upper parts of this base level zone again. So at this stage in the story, I feel very confident in holding, enduring the swings within this base zone, and waiting (and hoping) for that moon shoot event to occur.
Safe in the knowledge that if it doesn't occur, or isn't looking like happening, I will still do perfectly well out of this share! Hope that helps explain.