You're not daft enough to find that garment factories employ people for £15/hour, are you? This has been business practice for years, from Next to ASOS to Boohoo and Co. Unfortunately, this country has turned into a handwringer's paradise where moral outrage is negated by a quick shop to Primark and an ebay package from Asia.
Mock outrage is an industry all by itself these days,. You never see the internet gobbos starting companies up though and making 'stuff'. I certainly wouldn't choose this country for business, looking at the state of UK shares. It's lost a trillion or two in capitalisation over the last year or two.
It looks like the low of around 1p in July 2019 may be the springboard to 5 or 6p+ moving into 2021. 'May' being the operative word. It all depends on the EV trend and other developments in the graphene space.
A speculative investment??? You do realize North America is over the border?
I held 5 million shares back in 2015 at under 1/10th of a pence. Wish I still did. The SP will fluctuate, but Greatland, as its name suggests, is heading for a great future. Punters have just got to be patient. Your time is coming at some point during this decade.
Hydrogen's a good energy carrier, but it needs a lot of of energy to produce by separating the hydrogen molecule from the more complex molecules into which it binds--in natural gas, urea, water, etc. Its development is like putting a pound into something and getting 30p back every time. The plain fact is there's nothing as good as hydrocarbons in terms of their energy denseness, but the world is clearly moving away from them in the years and decades ahead. EVs appear to be the only game in town for now.
Like the virus, the SP peaked at 2 quid and is now following a downward cycle. Certain covid19-related events can boost the SP again, but the trend is generally down in relation to that. From official government figures, 0.06% of the population have died from this SARS-related corona virus so far in the UK. In other countries, the percentage figures for deaths are similar or lower. The populations of the world have been spooked and duped and a lot have lost their livelihoods.
A low carbon future means a significantly smaller world population, and not much commerce. Parroting the green low carbon consensus does nothing for your brain cells, Mr Looney. Nothing green can match the energy surpluses of hydrocarbons. That's just reality. Without energy surpluses, the future looks grim. Unless the world population falls by 90%.
I appreciate your optimism, Fortitude, and I'm told a commodity boom may be on the way over the next few years, but this is a daft move, reminiscent of directors with their snouts in the trough making out they're actually doing something for a living. And when I saw Alien Minerals and Arian Silver mentioned in relation to a director in the RNS, I gave out an audible groan. I understand that rare earths and the like are found in heavy mineral sands, but diamonds and diamond shares have been in a slump for ages. I remember Petra Diamonds being £1.50, and now you can actually rub two pennies together to buy one of their shares. This news is all very disappointing for a variety of reasons already mentioned by posters, but I hope to be proven wrong.
Sometimes companies and people drift through life achieving very little and then out of the blue a lightning bolt of success hits them and things are never quite the same again. I came here initially for the [mothballed] fluorspar projects, but Pyramid, Nevada, may deliver a lot more in time -- in terms of attracting the big boys, especially as confidence in governments dwindle and gold prices go through the roof.
The SP's peak at just over 2 quid has coincided with the rush to try and get back to some kind of normality at the start of June, with governments realizing their lockdowns have done irreparable damage to the productive economy, by a virus that has killed around 0.0006% of the UK population. If that isn't madness personified, I dunno what is.
Try and resist FOMO after shares spike, because more times than not they plummet the next day as punters take profits. Getting in at a low is obviously preferential, but determining the low can be tricky at times. Ultimately, the only way to learn is to make mistakes.