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About the same as that Ironfish - have drip fed money in since it hit 0.0154, still keeping an eye out for news before buying. One thing that keeps popping up in the back of my mind is that the senior employees (not BOD) are hoping to get the SP to 5p+ by the Xmas so they can cash in on the 2017 shares options (excise price 3.4p). .

musamura - are you able to trade in ASO shares in Turkey?

Gotta fair chunk of change in CEY which is doing very well, particularly today with the annual results and Final Dividend declaration. so have drip fed more cash into ASO at 1.92+ - I assume therefore that all the 1.92 "SELLS" are in fact Buys" . mycool - for my part I am still cautious about ASO, but so far this year I have been drip feeding in £1K and sub £1K purchases. I am cautious because DR lost me a lot of money and the current ASO Management did not say a great deal about the general state of the Mine when they took it over and haven't rally been very forthcoming about how and when the problems would be addressed. Right now I am risking part of the Profits I have made elsewhere on ASO in the hope that it may yet come good SP wise.

Just drip fed some more in and got a buy price of 1.93

for whoever bought £311k worth reported after hours, what did they know and when!

AIMforprofit - Indeed that was not so smart (I acted in frustration and shall no doubt repent at leisure). Still with my new holding of £1K I currently need 20p to break even. But rest assured I shall follow ASO closely and buy more if and when my confidence returns. However I doubt if I will sink 5 figures in here again, unless something serious begins to happen with POG that is.

I have just checked my deal history, actually sold out at 1.55. I should not have, I know, but I was that peed off at the lack of Communication from the board.

As I was certain AUE as going private at the back end of Summer I sold out at just over 2p and made an 11K loss. I bought back in a week and a half ago at 1.53 (albeit only 1k worth). As far as the future SP is concerned I am mindfull that the First Tranche of the first Employee Share options are exercisable next month and the First Tranche of the Second Employee options in June (both at 3.4p if I remember correctly) . With this in mind the Companies employees at least must be hoping for 5p plus sometime after this summer..

The ex AUREUS Directors on the current AVE Board are the same ones that managed to get MNG into the mix. All the other AUREUS Directors went their merry way, Including D Reading the founder and MD of AUREUS (a good Geologist but a bad MD).

Sorry forgot to add that the next TR1 will confirm whether or not those sells have been scooped up by MNG or the Institutional investors.

I cannot remember the last time I saw an uncrossed trade for AUE or ASO - I believe this means all those sells have been matched at auction by a buyer. I fear this could this lead to MNG and "Partners" reaching a 90% squeeze out position. If this assumption is correct then we can expect a JV being announced between MNG and these "partners" followed by a takeover squeeze-out bid at circa 1.55.

Oopps AUE should be Avesoro Res

Whatzhisface - There is still a possibility that AUE will remain listed but it is very slim. I sold out at 1.55 but have not yet ruled out the possibility of jumping back in. A Fairytale ending would be AUE to remain Listed, a sudden Company announcement that the Mine is fully operational, Projected average AISC for 2017 to be below 1100. I have banged on about this before but I still cannot believe that the Major Investors would have supported the "appointment" of MNG as the company's Saviour with guarantees of either: A) AUE would not be taken private, or B) If AUE were to be taken private the minimum take out SP would be someway North of were it is today.

The name change will require majority shareholder approval at the SH meeting on 29th November - if accepted will take effect on 6TH December. SP – There’s no conspiracy on Buy/Sell markers. Whilst LSE and other sources do report Buys as Sells (and vice versa) it is down to a less than perfect algorithm in the Software. I have been reliably informed that as a rule of thumb when the bargain price is below MID PRICE then it is Sell - if above MID Price it’s a Buy. PS I find that "This Is Money" is more reliable in showing Buys as Buys and Sells as Sells.

chinch – I think you are spot on. And don’t forget that Bookers will expect the Londis and Budgen acquisitions to enhance group earnings from May 2017 on.

Yes plausible, in fact what most here were hoping for when the announcement was made that MNG would become involved. For myself the lack of communication from the "NEW" BOD is chipping away at that hope. Still now I know the bottom price there doesn't seem to be much I can do other than hang on. So far I have lost enough to make my eyes water but not enough to break me..

Denzil_212 I am not entirely convinced this is a take-over quite yet! Be that as it may :- Take-over Rules in Ontario and UK say that the offer price must be the same for all shareholders. Since the RNS informing us of the original MG “Rescue Plan” in May I have been convinced that the Institutional Investors must have been on board with the 55% share creation long before the RNS announcement (probably as far back as Feb of this year - when the Special Committee tasked with maximising share-holder value was formed- please note the three AUREUS Directors on that Special Committee are still on the current BOD). So if it is to be straight forward take over then the price would have to been high in comparison to the current SP, now that I find hard to believe. What I really fear is that MNG and the Institutional Investors will block trade their shares into a new Company (that they own) at 1.5p or thereabouts and then use that Company to launch the take- over bid, My inexpert understanding is they would only have to pay the highest price the take- over company had paid in the previous 12 months i.e. 1.5p or thereabouts. If such an alliance between MNG and the Institutions is announced THEN IT WILL BE A TAKE OVER at 1.5p or thereabouts.

I've been a bit perplexed over the last three weeks too. Your comment about the weakening pound is probably right. Now with this AMs RNS we seam to have a bit of a mini recovery (so far).

Walkley – From RNS dated 7th June:- Ironveld plc, the owner of a High Purity Iron ("HPI"), Vanadium and Titanium project located on the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex in Limpopo Province, South Africa (the "Project") is pleased to announce the finalisation of an offtake agreement for all the Project's vanadium **** product with an established international company. The company has entered into an agreement for a period of five years from first production for all the vanadium **** produced at attractive price terms. The market for vanadium is both dynamic and diversified with the majority of current consumption going to steel application. The growth market for vanadium is its use in batteries with the advancement of vanadium redox batteries ("VRBs") as a potential solution for grid energy storage associated with renewable energy. The Company is also in advanced discussions with an offtake partner for the HPI powder, which, on finalisation, will complete the Company's objective of securing agreements across the Project's three products. I believe the above means that the eventual delivery and sale of IRONVELDs Vanadium Offtake will put a nice cushion under our operating costs once mining commences. ALSO an earlier RNS (20th May) announced that OREPORT would take all the Titanium offtake and be given first right of refusal for the Vanadium offtake (now a redundant issue) and all of the mines main output i.e. HPI So it appears that the IRONVELDS sales plan is well in place. All we have to do now is bottom out the capital, build a mine and start digging!

Dotlink – thanks for finding and sharing those links. I have been monitoring the Aureus Website for a while now. Whilst I am not sure what to make of the unfolding share movements I can say that Between July 17th and August 17th Institutional Investors reduced their holding from 38% to 22.3% Over the same time period Private/Retail Investors went from 9.1% to 22.7% whilst MNGs holding remained at 55% throughout. Apart from the 5.75million stock option purchase it would seem that all the Institutional Sales have been picked up by the PI/ Retail investors.