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Mercedesman - yes far more detailed. A good post. I wasn't watching the board last night or would have referred to it.

Actually, I had a bizarre day yesterday here in Portugal. We have found a campsite in the middle of nowhere, newly opened. Everything is shutting down and we could be 'self-isolated' at any time. Emergency announcement coming from the government today. Luckily the site has a bar and we joined the site owners and four others who have landed here too in an almighty investment in acohol. That went down too haha.

At the risk of being labelled 'Rampard of the Day' here is a reminder of the stuff we are waiting for and what keeps me going :)

1) Newcrest aim to complete Stage 2 of the Farm-In by the End of March ( 2 weeks )
2) Newcrest Quarterly Report end of April ( + 4 weeks )
3) Greatland intend Drilling Scallywag in April ( Results Possible in end May ( + 8 weeks )
4) Newcrest Quarterly Report end of July ( + 8 weeks )
5) Newcrest Quarterly Report end of October ( + 12 weeks )
6) Maiden Resource Estimate 2nd Half 2020, around September ( + 4 weeks )
7) Newcrest aim to start a Decline by Early 2021 ( + 20 weeks )

Plus all the potential news from Paterson Range East, Firetower, Blackhills, Panorama, Warrentina and maybe even EG...

Thats why I have remained invested in the only share in my portfolio showing true promise of a multi-bag within months. The rest are just multi-baggage at the moment :(

Haha...Lesotch. Well, I bought my very,very last lot @2.98. That gives me a round million shares. That's 10k per 1p rise in the SP (and the opposite but we don't want to go there thank you).

My theory is that if the world and all it's fiscal value drops into the 'ot place it won't matter none anyway!

Well I must say this is the weirdest holiday Ive ever been on: Stuck in an old motorhome in Portugal, watching all my savings drain away like sand through an egg-timer, can't get out of the country because the borders are closed and can't go and get a coffee because the cafes are all shut. At least I'm not coughing........yet!!!!

Blimey.

I should acknowledge that it was Paddy's post on Aurelian that got me searching around for more info.

I stumbled across this today which focuses on the mining scene in Ecuador.

https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/investors-long-this-unknown-mining-stock-could-see-a-near-term-5-6x-return-2018-07-30

What really got the line of three cherries falling in front of my eyes was this paragraph:

Aurelian Resources Inc was the original owner of the Fruta Del Norte claim. This was a small unknown company before exploration work on Fruta Del Norte began in 2006... the company's stock climbed from $0.40 to over $40.00 as exploration continued, culminating in the $1.2 billion purchase by Kinross.

Blimey!

Thanks tiggerman! I have copied the timeline. :)

Someone posted a useful schedule of announcements a day or so ago. I can't find it for the life of me. Anyone have this to hand? I'd like to copy and paste it onto a document in order to provide an uplift after an annoying down day like Friday.

Definitely worth a read that. Thank you pacman.

No problem Lenz. I received the sentiment. Hehe.

It's true VC. If you eat tons of garlic and onions there would be no need for the government to issue a directive to self-isolate.

The problem is we do not have sufficient infrastucture globally to deal with a global health crisis like this one and for many citizens, the idea of having a 1 in 200 chance of dying is terrifying, let alone 1 in 50 for older people.

There is no fiscal policy that counters a mass hysteria unprecedented in modern times. It's not like Aids which was deemed avoidable. It floats around in the air and stays alive on surfaces for ages.

To quote an old example taught to me by a lecturer in Economics "A diamond is worthless to a man who finds himself without water in the middle of a desert".

I think my main concern is the amount of effort it has taken to keep my investments 'above water'. Up to this week i had just about managed it but now find my pot 25% down. Solid blue chip companies are shedding their value like no tomorrow. There seems no safe haven other than cash.

Im sticking with ggp but had shares with pphe, a luxury hotel chain, for example. I had to stay aware. Far more aware than I wanted to be. Had I not sold up i would be 50% down in that share, in a week.

Some investors in certain blue chip companies haven't managed to dodge the bullet and have lost huge sums.

The reaction to the virus is bordering on panic. The hand of chance is sweeping the world and if you are unlucky it will be you that spins the roulette wheel and sees the ball land on '0'.

However, for the vast majority of us, we will ride out this hysteria and all the toilet roll shortages, come out the other side and refer back to it as a storm we got through.

The fundamentals here at ggp are very exciting and Im really looking forward to the rest of 2020. :)

Newcrest to buy Havieron? I don't remember seeing that on an RNS.

I'm rather glad I sold the shell shares I bought yesterday for a modest gain and then took the cash to top up here today three minutes before end of trading!

Now the thing is, it is very interesting physchology from this point: Being as I am on a nice long holiday, I was cursing my greed by not selling all my shares after this reached 5.8p a couple of weeks ago. I could have rested easy and avoided the massive drops in the stock market.

However, if this does fly tomorrow and heads for 6p.....hmmmmm. :)

Topped up myself just before close of play. It is showing as a sell along with a bunch of others traded at the same price of 4.149, preceded by a blue 'buy' at 4.30. Odd by my eye but yes, it would be nice to see the sp rise tomorrow.

Gold has dipped today but it didn't seem to make a halfpenth of difference here when it went up recently so...

I sure will apple.

Anyway, for anyone with a morbid interest, here is a site giving the mortality stats per age group. The working population are sitting pretty in the main.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

Actually, the stats are showing that the Coronavirus is killing slightly more people than flu. It is a little more difficult to quantify because a lot of Chinese men smoke and that weakens the respiratory system. Therefore, more are dying than would in he UK, for example.

I'm 63 and in pretty good health but it is my age group and beyond that is most at risk and significantly so if you are in your eighties.

I reckon I have a 36-1 chance of copping it if I catch the bug but at least I will be rich, rich, rich as a GGP shareholder if I do!!

At 4.12. Is that good or bad?

I resisted topping up in ggp this time. Had some cadh ready from a pre-emptive sale last week.

I decided instead to buy Shell after it dropped 20%. Sorry, just cannot believe that the oil price war can continue for more than a few days before Russia and Saudi Arabia sit down to negotiate.

Stlll have 30% of a somewhat dwindled portfolio here though. Today's drop seems weird and must surely be a bit of a blip.