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No fire sale to Potanin, no sir! He has too many rivals at the very top for that to be allowed to happen. Mind you, Potanin would probably regard 70P as a fire sale price for all those assets that we know, and maybe don’t know, about. Will the Hongkong parties see him off? Let’s hope so!

For the Board to sell all for 50P would be a bitter pill to swallow although most here would be happy with that.

The buyer would almost certainly be getting the bargain of a life time. That would be guaranteed if metal prices reach predicted levels in the next decade. The thing is the war in Ukraine and the economic recovery of China will take too long. The BoD must throw it open to the highest bidder and take their chances. Serious and genuine competition should see something (well?) above 50P. Can a world player let a rival in at that figure? I don’t think so. If they could have got more before the war, too bad! You can’t bury yourself in grief and dispair, like Richard and others!

Maybe LG has offered £6m but on onerous terms, which has split the major shareholders down the middle - we know that LG as a profit-orientated business man (to put it as politely as possible) would regard it as quite normal to proceed in this way. Possibly some are minded to accept his money. Divide and conquer etc. On the other hand, however, he would have to be certain that the LU is in the bag before parting with the money. My musings could be wide of the mark, of course.

Indeed, SM, Swizz’s latest views would be welcome. These large share transactions every so often are a concern if they are going to LG. Could there be a difference of views among the large shareholders about how to proceed, for whatever reason? Perhaps they disagree on the level of acceptable settlement - or whether to take less sooner than more later? Just some thoughts.

Would it be newsworthy if the 20m shares traded yesterday are now in LG’s hands?

Or is that only to be expected? The alignment process is taking rather a long time with too much deference being shown to LG in my opinion. I would have expected stiffer resistance and solidarity among all major shareholders, to put it mildly, and news about our ECT case by now.

Mac, listen out for the unfair questions like why murderers, rapists and other untrained personnel are being conscripted to fight in Ukraine.

Pacer, going to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation is not low-profile keeping.

Does anyone know why there are so few speakers of Tatar in the Crimea today? I don’t expect an answer from Leningradski and I’m definitely not putting all the blame on Catherine the Great. The Ukrainians were liberal enough to accord the language special minority status, unlike previous rulers from Catherine to (and above all) Stalin.

Getting facts about Crimea straight:

According to the survey, Russian is used at home by 43–46% of the population of the country (in other words, a similar proportion to Ukrainian) and Russophones made a majority of the population in Eastern and Southern regions of Ukraine: Autonomous Republic of Crimea — 77% of the population. ( 11% speak Tartar (a Turkic language) as their first language)

Compare Belarus with 41.5% with Russian as their mother tongue - excuse for empire building?

Ukraine is not a NATO member - yet. Russia invaded Ukraine to stop Ukraine joining, is your point of view, BoB?

I can and do argue with Putin’s facts. You don’t, you just swallow them.

Anyone who does that is clearly full of crap themselves, as abundantly illustrated in your posts. I am as good a conservative as Ben Wallace, by the way.

It is abundantly clear that some people think Putin, turned historian in recent years with a 5000 word essay on the history of Ukraine and a Western anti-Russia plot (ongoing since the 17C no less) is a convincing historian - it is compulsory reading for the Armed Forces, by the way. Maybe Putin will be promoted one day to the Russian Academy of Sciences as a noted historian of Mother Russia.

Are some people on this board saying that the Baltics States, for example, should not have been allowed to join NATO for fear of displeasing Russia? Is it surprising that Ukraine is seeking security after the annexation of Crimea and then invasion of its own internationally recognised territory. It is just as well ‘promises’ given by individuals in early 1990’s were not legally binding considering that Russia’s record in Chechnya and elsewhere made the Baltic States and eventually Ukraine feel distinctly uneasy. Gorbachev was critical but conceded that these promises were as irrelevant as they were meaningless. Putin’s big mistake was to agree with Macron that Nato was brain-dead and practically toothless into the bargain.

So much better for your mental equilibrium to see green rather than red, I find.

They dare not hint that anything is happening soon! Language has to be neutral. Good if you have found a better risk/reward elsewhere. Best of luck to you as well.

I should have added that the 46P for everything leaves the buyer with West Kytlim for free. I think that would be a good extra inducement (on top of rock bottom!) for the purchaser, don't you think?! Of course the negheads say that is as it should be because West Kytlim makes a loss and always will! Even Mr YF hinted in his usual crafty-sly way that WK is worth next to nothing. The 'expert' is now gone, it seems, to save himself imminent embarrassment.

I wouldn’t rule out 85P but what I definitely rule out is less than 46P with at least two bidders after two+ years still at the table!

Have fun looking back at 'do your own valuation' from ACF 2020 report! You will see the range is all the way from 46P-236P under various parameters - and for much less resources and reserves than EUA has currently! Who bawled give me 46P right now? - don't worry, you will get that and then some. Nickel, copper and Iridium are at higher prices now than assumed in that report. Palladium has halved but I wouldn't worry too much about that. I hear lone wolf is still annoying people with his obnoxious drivel. Bury him in a green coffin is the best solution. I notice certain prominent and possibly more intelligent negheads have slunk away, knowing that the game is almost certainly up.

The fanatical Paul Murphy (People before Profit) lambasts backslider Eamon Ryan in the Irish Times for his recent fall from grace!

If NATO had not been so brain-dead at the time Putin might not have gambled that he would get away with annexing Crimea. We all know what happened next and why.