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Yeah not sure what all the bot trades are about but there’s about a dozen or so genuine buys today which, although not many, is certainly more than there’s been for a CB long old while. I wonder if lithium will do another 5% tomorrow…

I have a feeling that might be it for today, but...that tomorrow we may see something similar at some point. Suggests someone trying to build a wee stake here on the quiet... Nothing too outlandish to cause the herd to move in but more likely someone that has an inkling of what could happen, and soon!

No meetings I’m aware of. Nothing official at least

You may well be right SW but does the UK govt care? They are all about making bold statements and then doing little to action anything.

I wonder if it would be allowed for a Chinese Company to buy Weardale? That would put the cat among the pigeons…

Am surprised Stubben Edge aren’t utilising this situation where Mac has such a low mcap and valuation but a decent stake in what could turn out to be a project worth £2bn. That’s why I think we might just wake up one day to find an RNS with a takeover offer for Weardale. Or, as people have mentioned recently, someone buys out Marechale to get a quick and cheap LSE listing and a decent investment in a UK based Lithium project.

Ae there any Chinese car manufacturers based in the north of England?

Timber!!! About to drop

12 many, you seem desperate to paint the blackest picture of this particular transaction. If they knew something bad was about to happen why would they not just sell all their shares in one go? It’s not plausible or sense to think that they’ve done this and left Still half £1 million in here to be diluted or risk losing it. There is no question that their broker would have been able to sort out a deal whereby all their shares was sold and you are allowed to delay notification if you can prove to the authorities that you are essentially making one transaction i.e. selling all your Shares And has already been pointed out if they were so sure that something bad was going to happen why would they not have sold all their shares earlier in December when the share price was much higher, say nearer the 10p mark?

Today will be interesting because now this trade has been printed and is out the way Maybe there will be more consistent buying. No one knows, only time will tell.

5p minimum hogbog. Minimum.

Lithium spot price up pretty much 100% in just 4 months. That puts a completely different perspective on the Weardale project. Something will definitely happen soon but I suspect the UK Govt has thought about all of this and prefers for the private sector to take the strain rather than get involved in more funding. They've thrown lots of cash into Cornish Lithium and that will be their big shout-out, saying weren't we clever, weren't we astute etc etc. Weardale will have to go it alone from here imo but....they could be on the receiving end of some extremely interesting offers very very soon.

The company issued this last February on its website

'During the commercial phase, the company estimates it will create approximately 125 highly skilled jobs and generate approximately £1 billion Gross Value Added (GVA) for the North East region.'

The price of lithium has been on a tear since then and shows no signs of halting any time soon. The valuation of Marchale and indeed Weardale haven't budged. In fact Marechale has deteriorated considerably. Go figure

OMG! I think I actually agree with Rookie1 on this. If you had a holding of over 3% you need to issue a TR1 with every sale of shares until you are under the threshold. Given it's such a large number of shares what would you do in Mr Zimmer's frame? Yep, me too. Smart move and they've obviously delayed the info for as long as possible.

On the surface it doesn't look good but this is AIM and Zimmer and his brokers will know exactly what they're doing. If they thought/knew there was bad news coming OTM then why wouldn't he have just sold the lot and notified the market once he'd finished. This explanation makes perfect sense (to me at least) and I can see this continuing its current rise once people work out what's really going on.

As for the announcement of a deal at the Conference, we had all this recently and it turned out to be a complete washout, so no, for me it's not fully baked yet.

Yeah, my point last week xviolet. They are willing to sell for some reason but someone is willing to buy them all. I suspect these were otc trades and may have been set up by Ketan and kept out of sight of the main market in order not to destabilise the share price at a sensitive time.

Yep SW, up nearly 7% in just one day. If Weardale can't attract any funding even with what's happening then my feeling is the UK govt will 'encourage' them to sell it on to an entity that can get it up and running. It may well end up being bought out cheaply but if that's the case then it will still be at least a few 100% higher than current value. £10m as an acquisition figure would see MAC's share price at least triple in quick time.

I don't see the RNS as a negative at all but I certainly question if it was required. It does smack of Tim trying to wind retail investors up again for a pump of sorts. You do see this kind of thing all the time with AIM stocks. Happened with CTAI recently when they attended some conference, the significance of which was blown up out fo all proportion. Share price rocketed and ended up 200% higher and then very quickly fell all the way back to below where it even started. Someone did extremely well out of it. No one should underestimate how low grade Tim's approach can be with regard to playing the AIM game.

I'm hopeful a deal will be concluded but really not sure it will happen by and be announced at this Conference. Would love to be wrong though.

Really suspect it will be out of the blue. The Directors and one HNWI bought a load only back in October so I think they have an idea of what’s coming. They won’t have put all that money in - just over £200k - on a whim. Just gotta sit tight

Jarv55 - a ‘liable’ case. Thank you brightening up my morning. Love it. I think I’ll be just fine thanks. Good luck with this. If Alludium comes through then you’ll all do very well I’m sure. If..

An excellent post from advfn

Subject

05/1/2026

19:49:35 1399peter: Klarian, a very cash hungry company. They have raised a shed load of money over the years and seem to have done little with it, apart from paying wages. According to Mr Clegg 2025 was going to be a year of transformational growth, Hmmm. Perhaps he meant 2026.

Perhaps he needs to pack his bags.

28 October 2024

Catenai PLC

("Catenai", the "Company")

Klarian update

Catenai PLC (AIM: CTAI), the AIM quoted provider of digital media and technology, provides an update on Klarian Ltd ("Klarian"), a company in which Catenai had provided a £450,000 unsecured convertible loan note facility ("CLN") as per the announcement 25 April 2024.

In the last couple of months, Klarian has raised approximately £660,000 at a pre-money valuation of approximately £10 million. Part of this was raised on its recent successful Crowd Cube campaign which brought new shareholders to Klarian.

Klarian has advised that a significant shareholder, Mr Donald Ross, is expected to shortly be joining its board as a Non-Executive Director. Mr Ross invested in the recent round. Mr Ross was a senior VP at SLB (Schlumberger) (NYSE:SLB) which is a global technology company.

The CEO of Klarian, Rob Clegg, commented "We are delighted that Donald is joining our board following this recent fundraise. He brings great experience in the oil sector which will compliment our existing experience in the water sector as well as pipelines generally. Klarian is now poised for significant growth in 2025.

Hmmm not sure about that. Ctai is much closer to going bust than Klarian! Not surprising though when they glibly hand over nearly half a million quid in return for …er…what?

Already checked it. Valued at approx £10m just before Xmas 2024 but they’ve had a bad year by the looks of things. No wonder they can’t afford to pay that loan back. They’ve had the money and spent it and achieved nothing as a company to pay it back. Just no idea what the ctai directors thought they were doing. Well, actually I do have a very good idea but no matter, the money has obviously gone and they can’t even get close to paying it back - with every extension they have another £60k or so to pay back and they’ve decided they have no option but to let it accumulate in the hope CTAI will soon be wound up and the debt written off.

Yep lithium carbonate on a relentless curve north but uk govt asleep at the wheel and showing far more interest in how to spend increased tax revenue on more benefits than anything. Still think this has to be an attractive asset now with prices up nearly 100% since last February when the sp was over 4p! Surely someone is eyeing Weardale up?

I’m here! Got back in just in time by the looks of it, although with not nearly as much as I’d planned. Hey Ho. Now just need to sit and watch.

There are groups of these AIM outfits who pay these unsecured loans to each other And it’s a complete ruse. They never get repaid. At least Klarian are going to make Ctai share holders feel much better by telling them what they’ve spent the money on And how well it’s doing as a result. But ctAI will never see any of that money come back and it hasn’t secured any shares or equity in Klarian. Just dollops of interest and fees IF they were to pay it back. Looks great on paper. Only it will never come. Sorry.