Member Info for Markyess

The Twitter rampers are shameful. I'm grateful that this is a tightly held share, with quite tight knit BB's that tend to stand together. The shameless ramping doesn't have too much of an impact on our price, and acts as a safety valve for pump and dumps.

Still, I find myself defensively countering anything that smells like a social media pump and dump - even if it means throwing dirt over my own figures (that are massively out of date and inaccurate)

It's fair and reasonable speculation. I'd take that over and above some suggestion that Dave 'tighter than a ducks arse' Reeves would have let anything slip to an investor.

How do you know that, Prop?

Smells a bit rampy.

Russell Lamming is the important person on this one.

I do wish they wouldn't keep bandying around my numbers. That was based on a significantly higher Manganese price than today. Still lots of value, but they are misleading people.

I don't think it 'lands' today, either. Too much going on with the new government taking shape to 'worry' about micro issues.

A late day RNS is not inconceivable. Will be keeping an eye on social media today, too.

It'll take dividend payments to properly wake this up.

Although the Nayega license will be a decent defibrillator!

I think it's eminently feasible we return without the full license.

The minimum I'll be happy with (and I genuinely would be happy) is a tangible and definitive plan, with a timeline and guarantees of issue once steps are complete, signed up by all parties as a show of commitment.

Sounds like an anomaly. It should be towards the highest it's ever been. Unless they'd had an issue - where they'd revalued the shares, but forgot to execute the 10:1 consolidation and have only just caught up?

I think the big jumps will start on confirmation of funding and final permits. We're then completely unconstrained and on the road to significant cash flow.

Logical assumptions for 'progress in Lome' are that mechanisms are being put in place for license sign off and award. I understand that Gnassingbe was out of the country for a couple of weeks until Friday.

Love an RNS that should be completely unnecessary, but was in fact necessary.

You can almost taste the irritation in the penmanship. 'Why the hell am I having to write this, we all knew it's been coming since February'.

Anyway, we move forwards. Still.

With Utah in production and cash generative, our share price doesn't yet value Utah fully. It contains no value for Nayega currently, so a 20-40% step back is beyond laughable.

Almost certainly.

TBH I'd expect the current government and PM don't just vacate their offices with immediate effect. I would expect they'll facilitate closure of current business and transition to the next government.

This is perhaps less of an issue than it seems at face value. Just surprising and confusing timing.

The timing is so comical, I can't help but think it must have been known and built into the process of extending the visit.

I hope so, anyway. Thanks SBK for emailing RL and offering to share any news.

It'd be nice to hit break even simply on news of the license. I do think our journey to real worth will be slow until news of first dividends.

One step at a time, though, no license, no dividends, no value.

The license puts us on the pathway and near guarantees we make our money, at least in due course.

Heavy 'investment' of time from a host of Togolese officials. Lots of effort if this is going nowhere.

As I said earlier, too many false dawns for the BoD to be slap dash with the 'messaging' now. If we don't have the permit in hand next week, we'll have a very definitive (and imminent) timeline at the very least, IMHO.

Too many people will look utterly ridiculous otherwise, and with World Bank funding to support and enable mining in Togo, I can't see they'd want to undermine themselves at this juncture.

I'm not sure, with all the false dawns that have taken place in the past, that the BoD would play so fast and loose with unachievable hype.

Worth remembering that Togo's wet season ends in September. Production underway in October?

I'm sensing a near bipolar swing in you, Jim ;-)

Progress has been a long time coming, your pessimism was always entirely justified.