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As this is also traded on the Zambian exchange, does anyone know how those trades would show here or not?

Yes, chunky trades + chunky 'unknowns' at mid point + no rns.

My best guess is market makers buying/selling/mucking about trying to kick this share to life! Unfortunately apart from the chunky ones, and the pathetic 'few quid' ones, there are very few real world ones e.g. 50k or 100k.

Happy however the general move is upward!!!

I have a large stake here but this yet again looks like all guns blazing to October, then another year of tantalising 'round the corner' events until we hit seasonal weather in October again. October weather seems to be the only repeating topic in the rinse & repeat. Hoping I can spot the triggers for rises/falls this time around as it seems to be the only way to make money here.

Thanks, I missed that RNS coming late in the day.

Feels like someone is playing silly beggars with 4m shares. Always on the mid so cannot say buy/sell. No RNS. Must be the market makers trying to fire up some interest rather than buy/sell 100 shares here and there. Not sure what the point is unless they are trying a variety of tactics to get this to a sensible market valuation. However sensible relies on trust that Zambia will not blow up after the election.....Come back St. Leger day?

Just ran the 5yr share price and noted we were back to where cdc came in.

No change in SP. Feeding more Zambians?

4m - That is huge!! If the big ones are related, that I believe is beyond Irwin/Grogan pension pots. We should be expecting an RNS if they are a build for a fund as that must be beyond 3% by now (although not counting!!). If no RNS then maybe we have just become popular among many institutions as that does not look like PI money. Zam Gov pension selling up but not reporting would probably see the SP dropping. Rabb selling up? Again that scale of sales would see the SP dropping not rising.

Lots of play money transactions as well. Not our normal backwater doldrums!

Hi again John!

From what I've seen here, the numbers of trades are tiny with most being for stupid small amounts which I guess are the market makers. So this is stagnant in a backwater of AIM. However the recent very large transactions without any RNS got me speculating as to what might be happening:-

Theory 1: Both founding directors retired recently with significant levels of shares. If they have loaded up a pension pot with those shares that might explain it.

Theory 2: The government of Zambia is short of cash and not averse to bending laws. Could they be selling the family silver (pension fund) ahead of the election and forgetting to bother with notification rules in other countries? Would AIM levels of monitoring pick that up?

Theory 3: Africa funds have done the calcs and can see how cheap this is. If you buy an africa fund you are inherently taking the type of risk inherent in Zambeef so if things get volatile its accepted.

My hope is that it is theory 1 or 3 and that a re-rate will happen quite quickly when they have some more good news to report. I don't think we will see dividends before a change of government as dividends means paying taxes into a bottomless pit when I guess CDC would prefer development in Africa.

I’m not clear why we needed this statement, probably only a few days before actual half year results? They did this last time too.

Presumably means $2m will be paid off debts??

Another big one! 4m shares - more than 1%!! Where did they find those ??

The sprayed concrete and concrete segments tend to be used for different purposes in tunnelling. Sprayed concrete is used in the New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM - new but really should now be ancient tunnelling method!) to allow the surrounding rocks to take up most of the load rather than the concrete. NATM best employed on short or one-off sections e.g. junctions . NATM was used on the channel tunnel crossovers and the short road tunnel that goes over the Chunnel. Segments are typically used with boring machines that churn out the long 'boring' sections and rely on the segments to restrain any ground movement and provide a consistent finish.

One of the issues with using fibres in concrete spraying is the candy floss effect. Candy floss is sprayed sugar fibres - you wouldn't want to rely on candy floss to hold up your tunnel. Steel fibres tend not do this.

The tunnel segments on the first stretch of HS2 are using steel fibres. It would be a good link up for UOM if they could get graphene to replace the steel in the Manchester stretch of the line. Probably a good direct replacement??

Not shorting but not taken in by the hype as I have been at this stage before with several wonder materials.

I remember the shed-based innovator, fresh off Tomorrow's World that came to visit with his wonder fire resistant material. We unfortunately had to disillusion him as we already had many different superior materials that could easily beat every performance criteria of his 'goo'. Commercial success is far harder than a one off pour.

Will be very happy to see this rocket and genuinely interested in a commercial supply but expect I will have to wait a few weeks.....

Can graphene be mass produced yet? probably a chicken/egg problem if there has not yet been any commercial application.

Can I order a 5% addition for my new extension concrete pour. Happy to pay a little more for all the commercial benefits that will result.

Somehow doubt that everyone in the supply chain is making a commercial profit out of this pour. Did someone provide the graphene as a loss leader?

I am being cynical but hope I am wrong. If I am wrong and we genuinely have the first commercial application of graphene in such a mass market, Versarien sp should be going ballistic.

The victorian era saw the creation of another wonder material that when combined with cement produced amazing results and allowed paper thin cement to cover large spans as a roofing material. Far superior to corrugated tin that rusted especially in the presence of farm animals, easily produced using existing paper making equipment, products that have outlasted human lifespans and are still widely in use today but no longer manufactured/sold in the uk.

Minor problem is if your product gets a reputation like......asbestos cement.

If they only poured yesterday, I would not be screaming from the rooftops. The news was released on an academic website and internal to Manchester Uni so maybe fine there. Lots can still go wrong in the real world of concrete laying (maybe a heatwave....having a laugh!!)

Would like to know more about how it will save on costs. Much simpler way of saving would be to eliminate all the bureaucrats that have to be spoon fed every time an innovation like this comes out.

So finally an admission that Lumberton licensing means it cannot be relied upon to deliver the order. I suspect they have been feverishly looking for an alternative that can be a positive to hide the bad news. Looks like a few old containers of superseded equipment have been shipped to a friendly company in another jurisdiction that has given a temporary permit. Effort now focussed on recommissioning old gear to desperately squeeze out the contracted CoalSwitch pellets with any thought of doing it in an carbon saving, eco-friendly, economical way out of the window.

Maybe a name change might get the market excited about this company?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to my dividends that were promised a while back.......

SP is going up this morning on lots of sales..... Only a few tiny purchases.

Well one of those sales was my own buy and further 'sells' happened later at even higher price. Looks like some funny business going on. Makes sense that Samsung would try to buy up as many as they can, then go for the takeover at a bargain basement price. LO have been in a long time but has RG?