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The Standard says 23% and short term fears overplayed, we may benefit if funds swop from BAT to IMB, IMO.

When Ecomomist & Super Investor, Maynard Keynes was appoached by others using the words, 'in the long term' he would reply, 'in the long term, we are all Dead'

Mr B:Appeasement solution you suggest. 1) Tanzanian Goverment would appear to be run by whimsical idiots,incapable of adding up. 2) ACA making Payola payments aside from international arbitration, thus weakening their assertion they have done nothing wrong. Continual use of the term, 'reason' does not apply to African totalitarian governments, witness decades of Mugbwe.

Not for the first time I got a 'bargain' from Lidl, Cathedral City Mature cheddar 550g for 300p, only to find it was 2.50p at Tesco :( It looks like we are targeting Lidl Week End bargains.

Google 'Short Tracker' 'companies'- I use it all the time! MRW & Ocado most shorted after CLLN - which cheers me as a TSCO holder :)

Good grief! Aldi, Lidl - and now the Terminator is coming to get us :)

BlackRock were shorting ACA a year ago, check out Short tracker. Marshall Wace LLP 0.50% 2017-01-17 ( now upped to 79%) BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited 0.49% 2016-03-21

Rock: I assume you are shorting ACA? YES or NO will do :)

Perhaps 'The Bulldozer' could forgo African timescales for once, after landing us with a bill that the City AM says would take ACA 140 years to pay off - is that a joke? Did he mean Millions instead of Billions?? The dividend is gone so investors will need something more than "positive feelings' to stay on board. Some won't be hanging around to see if he can outlive Mugabwe. The extract from an ACA RNS I posted yesterday makes it clear that ACA were ALREADY contributing millions in aid to Tanzania community projects - so this is a complete Red Herring.

SuperBull:I find not 1 word to suggest Barrick Gold made these community payments, as you assert - it was ACA itself. "Contribution to Tanzania ( from ACA RNS) Acacia’s Sustainable Communities (SC) team continued to focus on delivering community benefits despite the uncertainties in the operating environment. The focus for the first half of the year was to begin and/or complete key infrastructural projects which we had committed to the communities and also to begin the roll out of the new SC strategy by building some of the foundations for implementation. By end of June 2017, through the Maendeleo Fund, we implemented 6 social infrastructure projects with a total value of approximately US$1 million at the 3 mines sites – some of which began at the end of 2016. The key projects per site include: Bulyanhulu: Constructed additional classrooms at Lwabakanga Primary School which has almost 600 students Buzwagi: Completed the construction of the 2.5km Mwime Chapulwa gravel road to benefit the Mwendakulima, Mwime and Chapulwa villages with a population of over 13,500 people. North Mara: Completion of the Kerende and Nyamwaga Health Centres which will benefit a population of about 25,000 people in 6 villages. An additional 10 infrastructural development projects are currently underway across all our sites with a value of US$940,000 which include school infrastructure, water supply, sanitation and maintenance of community roads. Other development projects in the last 6 months include continuing our support to 2,700 students with uniforms and books under the CanEducate partnership; supporting sports through coaching clinics in partnership with Sunderland Football Club and provision of reconstructive surgery for 36 burns and cleft lip and palate patients through our partnership with Rafiki Medical Missions. In addition, Acacia, in partnership with TANESCO, has invested US$2.5 million to construct a STATCOM centre at Bulyanhulu that will enhance the quality of power supply in the area. The investment will greatly improve the stability of the electricity at the Bulyanhulu and Buzwagi mines"

Sold 900 @ 258p last Friday JLY 21st - still have about 190.

I would not be urging 'Strong Buy' on the basis of talks that have not yet begun. I agree with the poster who said the 'ring fencing' of ACA by Barrrack Gold looks like a very smart move in hindsight - but why are our BOD not at the table to discuss the possible destruction of our company??

Wrong end of the stick, randy, as usual:) - was talking to ONE poster on ACA whose dog had died, who had just put 100k in 'dead Dog', ACA. I still hold 193 myself, so wrong again. I am tempted too tell you how many TSCO I have but why should I? My compo claim is in the 1,000s, now stop being a tiresome bore & take the dog for a walk :)

If you show a dog 2 pieces of meat it will just grab the nearest, not the best. Grabbing the mines now is short-sighted but most African dictators couldn't run a pizz up in a shebeen. The brand of communism favoured is 'All animals are equal- but some are more equal than others' :)

Like the Zim dollar, IMO. You can only steal the gold mines once. Will the last Foreign company investing in Tanzania turn the lights off, please.

You are buying bombed out/risky stocks while the balance of your mind is disturbed by the loss of your dog. For god's sake stop before you lose everything.

Maybe, but the lesson is that the spry, 93 ye old Magabwe is STILL PM - after Hyperinflation, stealing Bank savings of Pensioners, Land grabs, etc. - indeed the Zim 'Bond' is the 2nd attempt in a decade to exchange citizen's cash for 'Micky Mouse' money - don't be surprised if the Wily 'Bulldozer' starts printing his own 'Bonds' soon, when the economy collapses...

Understand a traditionally attired Witch Doctor assisted the President in arriving at these eye-watering figures with the aid of a pile of chicken bones...

The Mail says a UK Charity has complained about minining cinditions in Tanzania, on top of our other woes.

He is no more worried about PR than Magabwe. ACA requested arbitration - meantime the blackmail payola is payed & we await The Bulldozer's next move, with no cards left to play . Put a mine in tickover mode & it may be seized.