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Q4 2021 Operational Update

FTSE 100 increased by 0.12%

Our Milky Way Galaxy is just one of billions of galaxies in the universe. Within it, there are at least 100 billion stars, and on average, each star has at least one planet orbiting it. This means there are potentially thousands of planetary systems like our solar system within the galaxy!

There are more stars in our universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth
MINDBLOWING

NASA and other international space agencies monitor the Sun 24/7 with a fleet of solar observatories, studying everything from the Sun’s atmosphere to its surface.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is studying our star from closer than any other spacecraft. On Dec. 14, 2021, NASA announced that Parker had flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. This marked the first time in history that a spacecraft had touched the Sun.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/exploration/?page=0&per_page=10&order=launch_date+desc%2Ctitle+asc&search=&tags=Sun&category=33

Sunspots can change continuously and may last for only a few hours to days; or even months for the more intense groups. The total number of sunspots has long been known to vary with an approximately 11-year repetition known as the solar cycle. The peak of sunspot activity is known as solar maximum and the lull is known as solar minimum.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/sunspotssolar-cycle

Who better to talk about the impact of rising energy costs on bbc this morning, than Nadhim Zahawi, the man who claimed £5,822 to heat the stables on his 32 acre estate.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59927887

Tricastin.....well away for us.
South-east coast....
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-French-nuclear-power-plants-30_fig1_308513695

France to freeze natural gas and electricity prices
https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/01/europe-s-energy-crisis-france-to-freeze-natural-gas-and-electricity-prices
Because of their energy mix
https://www.statista.com/statistics/768066/electricity-production-france-source/
note....very little fossil fuels

France to freeze natural gas and electricity prices
https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/01/europe-s-energy-crisis-france-to-freeze-natural-gas-and-electricity-prices
Because of their energy mix
https://www.statista.com/statistics/768066/electricity-production-france-source/
very little fossil fuels

Terrible........
Longleat lost their Humboldt penguins the year before last due to a devastating avian disease. We sometimes don’t realise how fragile animal lives can be until something like this happens.
keepers devastated

Timeline of key milestones and deadlines in the UK–EU post-Brexit relationship, 2021–28
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/charts/timeline-post-brexit-relationship

Kazakhstan has been ruled by one person, Nursultan Nazarbayev, since before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Its yet another dictatorship

Just 19m live in Kazakhstan, that is over half the size of Europe.

Canada close behind Kazakstan .......so ignore my alarmist post below.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264781/countries-with-the-largest-uranium-reserves/

Kazakstan has 40% of the known reserves of Uranium.
WORRYING .....

KEFI GOLD AND COPPER PLC
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One million tons of GREEN hydrogen from one huge North sea project
GERMANY going BIG on hydrogen as ALL their nuclear power stations will soon by closed.
Germany has moved against nuclear as the Green parties dominate policies
Coal will be gradually run down and Russian gas is well....problematic.
Leaving green hydrogen and green electric as clear longterm winners IMO

I wasn't aware....cheers

i hold PUR......pure gold
It like wres is gradually increasing production, But in a new Canadian gold mine,
Like wres it has disappointed repeatedly with output/grades far below agreed schedules which like wres has trashed the S/P
But suddenly the CEO and CFO were replaced without warning as the principal lending partner, Sprott (a well known gold investor guru) acted decisively.
Whether performance improves time will tell, but a clear-out of management does bring hope