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PS: A Guy Shelby character has got to have a role in that movie.

Played by our very own Mr Zap, I propose

There's only one Ben 'Owell.. Walking along singing a song... there's only one Ben 'Owell !

The movie should be called ''The Bird Man'' imho

And have a potential future James Bond, and proper Yorkshire Man, James Norton, play the man 'imself.

The name's Bird.................. Colin Bird

Hopefully yes

Not so nicetomichu Gusto :-)

If the fudders are still banging away here 'all day every day here', they must think this can still come off further again... ..

As this has - sadly -come off very significantly already, I very much hope they're wrong from here forward..

(but I'm not comfortable enough on that to add to my small holding here, alas)

Depending on their averages and the actual share price at that time people would, of course, have very different perspectives on 4p sale price for their shares.

As this share price is depressingly low at this time and my average is probably relatively low versus the field- at 2p - I'd , for eg, take 4p for my shares readily enough around now.

But the AA drilling can strike meaningfully at any time and if/when such news were to be released this share would rally strongly/quickly, I'd expect . All of a sudden I might then be thinking 4p is absolutely not enough for my shares.

More generally, I absolutely would not be for a raise in 2025 for further Botswana drilling at 1 to 1.5 p ish .... If next drilling results there are plenty better than ones reported last week the s/p should rise decently off back and then a raise at decently over 2p to drill further I'd understand .. if they're not, I'd be for pausing further Botswana drilling for a meaningful period..

What worries me for 2025 here, is that NvS will think about maintaining ongoing Botswana drilling whatever, not least to look to justify his - too large - salary.. and care less about the impact of any raise at a lowly level on his shareholders.

Very generally, when people say they wouldn't trust Colin Bird as far as they could throw him, I'm sympathetic to that. I'm almost as sympathetic to ditto re NvS. (I've been around xtr.l shares a lot longer that arcm.l ...If I'd been in involved here as long as there, I might have left out that almost in my last sentence.)

Towards balance, I remember Mr Colin Bird buying decently north of 100k gbp worth of shares in the 5 to 6 p range - happy to stand corrected on exact figures?- here in the middle of his Bush Ranger hype. So I have a feeling he genuinely believed; he just got carried away with himself and he turned out, in the end, to be a long way off on those early very high early Bushranger expectations of his.

He then decided best he try and slippery wriggle/smoke and mirror his way out of the hole he was in, and that generally went very badly for him/us eg .6 p xtr.l s/p as I type this.

Generally, I see Mr Bird as somewhat incompetent and somewhat playing the game on the outer edges of the AIM rules. And, in the round, even summing afore together, I would not categorise him as a white collar criminal.

(The Copper World and AIM World have changed radically/brutally since his Kiwara Resources Plc sold that copper property in Northern Zambia to First Quantum Minerals for US$260 million in November 2009. Alas, he has not changed in his practices/thinking nearly as much as that World that his current stable of companies participate in)

I have huge respect for Master here .. and totally understand his frustration.. but it's Mongolia and you've got to make significant allowances for that when judging Mr Mike Buck. That said I think he's now an average CEO.. but could be/have been a decent one.... I expect the journey so far in Mongolia has somewhat broken him though. .. but plenty of journey to come here still, I expect.. so here's hoping..

A shout out to Doc too.. his caution, scepticism and balance are born out of experience here and well justified, clearly

And finally, a shout out to the one and only Mr WOS.. I admire your extraordinary dedication to ramping this doggy/puppy - who knows which really.. this is text book high risk betting where anything can happen - to the high heavens ... and I agree the the race is likely still plenty long here .. so plenty of twists/turns/ups/downs to come here yet, I expect..

IMHO & DYOR

Disappointing but unsurprising s/p performance today, alas.

I'm here for the Zambia JV with AA .

Even if medium sized crumbs only fall arcm.l shareholders way from that , I can still see this s/p readily going to 5p + ...IF AA find even close to what they're expecting to find.

In fairness to NvS he got us that JV and that's huge in itself imho.. But beyond that I don't particularly rate or trust the guy.. and, even including that JV achievement, I think he significantly overpays himself.

PS: I pay plenty of attention to the bears here... and appreciate their posting.. ditto the bulls here too, in fairness

(and I have nobody on filter here)

It could indeed be Ben 'Owell.

It surely could indeed be.

I've no idea whether you'll be proven right or wrong Little Wing.. hopefully wrong.. but you could of course be right either, I get.

If this was to go under .50 p and stay there for a fair few months, I'd like people who look in here and have an inside track to Mr Bird to encourage him to give serious consideration to a v approx .75 m gbp share buyback scheme here in 2025.

''AIM Explorers just don't do that'' I - historically - get.

BUT

Few of them have such an incoming cash runway as xtr.l has thru coming years

AND

few have a leader who is so untrusted/disliked across the market as Mr Colin Bird is

Alternatively, as Mr Zap might easily present it:

Tuesday's .55p was the - joint - five year s/p low here.... so hopefully we hit the bottom then and have just started a rally that will, in due course, see the doors getting blown off a .55p base

Disclaimer: I have no idea if .55p will be the bottom or not.. I just made the above up to raise my mood.. and to share the load with Mr Zap on positive vibe posting here

'ere's 'oping every dog 'as its day, one more time... please

Maybe 2p ish is fairer value this morning?

Heron 1 is a good thing by any definition .. and will se decent revenue coming in thru winter.

Plenty more Heron plays still to come here in 25.. one way or other ..

I have neither sold nor bought any so far this morning.

(Disclaimer: This has been and will remain a small speculative bet for me only...Matd.l is more for hard core betting players than Investors imho.. I absolutely see myself as a hard core betting player, hence my involvement here in first place.. but small in play bet only for me as Mike Bucks track record is poor.. and Mongolia needs to change a lot more still.. which is neither easy or sure)

The spread has narrowed this arbo too..

So maybe MM's think that the recently active II players have completed on this current selling / buying exercise?!

I've been looking in/posting occasionally here for too many years now.. and remember doc posting here for plenty of those years and I've been clear all along that he's long term holding here.. All that's happened is reality has incrementally bitten harder and harder and he's adapted his perspectives accordingly.. something a few others have done too in recent years e.g. me ..

( I don't short.. I've had between 2k and 10k gbp long BETs in play here thru the years and including the gift from the Gods that was early 2017 here... and ongoing range trading here for many years too...I'm, fortunately, way up here )

I still read this BB as I find it very entertaining and somewhat informative. WOS has very good content but is totally unbalanced....Master has great real time content.....and, in the round, Doc is the best poster here imho..

The likes of Ten Bag Tag will be gone not too long after they've come along .. and in his defence I'll offer he's a decent comedian.

PS; The landscape/game has changed so much over the years that the chances of anything remotely like that early 2017 spike here happening again are extremely small indeed, sadly.. Still 5p would be great.. and I'd be happy with 4p too.. and in terms of spiking, maybe even 8 to 10p range has a small chance of happening here, in due course imho

Good luck to all here

...not least as this may well give Mr WOS licence to go full pull pant down mode on flip floppers and chit chatters ..

Header say some but not all, Sir(s)

Towards balance I'll also add:

He who dares, Rodney.. 'e who dares

Alternatively Colin Bird loves being the guy rolling the dice .. and has no intention of giving anyone else a go.. not least as he has up to 17m of chips in his pocket ...and plenty of bets he - has a feeling - he likes the look of.

This time next year Rodney.... You know it makes sense

Trying to draw conclusions from any/all data sets is fraught with pitfalls ..

(aka random path to infinity)

Here's to swingy swinging all the time ...more than just when he's winning