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Blackrock reduced by 0.1% and Marshall Wace by 0.02% - total shorts now down to just 1.37% - a good sign for our SP - I wondered who was buying up big chunks of shares (to pay back share lenders). 1.37% shorting is negligible compared to lots of other companies !!!! Au and Ag now rising again - spot prices $US 1232.5 for Au and $US 17.69 for Ag Regards all

Oscar - I hope the BOD does NOT increase the dividend pro tem - better to use the cash to offset production losses at Inmaculada and also to increase production at other sites. It would be brilliant if we could get a RNS soon reopening Inmaculada but I am encouraged by the SM reaction (ie no big drop in SP so far) but how long the good will will last I do not know. I appreciate that the BOD are constrained from discussing the accident till the AIB publishes its report so we will just have to wait ! Like you I would be delighted with a £3 SP soon but IMO it will be kicked down the lane till we see the 2017 Q1 production report (usually a bit downbeat each year) and any major announcements in first week March. I am glad i took the plunge and bought a lot more HOC yesterday at 243p Regards and GL with your own plans

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HFX giving 248.1p at the mo for finish Regards all - HOC bearing up amazingly well

Some years back when I had bought into Quindell (QPP) when it had crashed from 44p (£2.5 BILLION market value) to 22p i was suspicious about "dark pool" trading - millions of shares were being sold off out of hours and I thought it was our main holder (Fidelity) quietly getting out of QPP. I was assured that there was no such thing as "dark pool" trading (which there IS) and I was told that Fidelity had not reduced its holding (which it HAD) - it later transpired that Fidelity had sold out completely and the SP finally hit about 2p !!!! I bought in at 22p and sold out at 20p (another 10% loss) but was grateful not to hold till 2p !!!! Yet again it was a company thriving on selling shares to keep going - the more the SP went up - the more people bought the shares ! But 44p down to 2p in a few months was tragic for some investors. HOC ticks all the boxes for me and I will now hold TFN - hoping for good news later in Feb and early Mar Regards

Good morning Eish - I took the plunge this AM and bought the first tranche of HOC for £16115 - but I cannot see it listed as a buy ! Either I need to go to specsavers or the market mafia are playing the game (surely not !!!) of swaying the market - LOL Started well today - and given good news about Inmaculada I think the SP will fly upwards. Regards

TY guys for support and good advice - gives me lots to think about. Ref HOC - gold and silver prices up again at the mo so would be an excellent day for a RNS giving a timescale for reopening Inmaculada. I think that the BOD will have to publish some details this week to reassure investors - otherwise the SP may drift downwards a bit. I will be keenly watching the SP from 8am - if we get the usual morning drop I am tempted to commit the £30K and then hold on for better times ! As I said before - HOC is NOT a one trick pony although Inmaculada IS the flagship it's output can be replaced by boosting latent production from other mines - the defining moments will be 27 Feb at the PMO conference and first week in March for the EYR production report. EYR takes us up to Q4 2016 so events this year will not impact until Q1 2017 report (which is usually down a bit due to seasonal and financial plan factors and will include the effect of Pallancata blockade and Inmaculada shutdown but I hope the market will not be put off and the SP will hold up well - especially if PM prices continue upwards !) All IMOO Regards and GL guys

Eish and Noggers - TY for kind thoughts - I have not been to doctors because I do not want to know about major abdominal surgery - I prefer to finally go in one piece - LOL. I even still have my appendix and tonsils !!!! I am mindful that my daughter recently had a massive cystic tumour removed followed by invasive biopsy ! She is now apparently fully recovered and will just need annual checks on recurrence. I am very interested in the new technique for detecting virtually all types of big C by breath analysis ! Brilliant company to invest in if I knew who is producing the kits !!! Back to the FTSE. I am holding about £30K in cash and looking hard at HOC to buy more but after I got my fingers burned to the tune of £2400 first day back in SOU I am very wary now - I am tempted to let existing holdings run till we get the RNS giving (hopefully) good news of a restart on Inmaculada and an update on the new (very rich) Pablo veins. If the news is not good I can buy more once the SP has settled and if the SP rises I gain on my existing holdings - so win win maybe. I was very pleased that HOC SP was upstanding on Friday - unlike majors like AAL and GLEN who saw big falls in their SPs. Other news - I sold out PMO shares at about 95p when they were going down and I am unsure now how the SM will view the new financial plan (ratified end May 2017) There will be at least an 8% drop in SP soon due to dilution so if that occurs it might be a good time to buy in for longer term excellent investments which are on the horizon. The Daily Torygraph business pages gives a mega write up to PMO today - speculating they may well buy out HUR or other assets near the Shetlands holdings of PMO. DT also ran a scare story on world wide oil companies selling off assets ASAP to avoid the coming oil price crash (again) Difficult decisions - I will stay in cash tomorrow I think until I see a RNS from HOC and I will wait for PMO SP to re-rate before buying any of those shares Regards all and GL with your own plans

Eish - very pleased to see your big profits on SOLG - always good to bank some or all profits IMO. SOLG peaked at 34p and dropped a little Friday to about 32p I think. As with all miners - one excellent RNS could move the SP much higher and one bad one drop it down quickly. Ref SOU - I made some very good profits up to Oct 2015 but became concerned at the vast number of new discounted and free shares being issued - I warned on the BB that the share volume was going up to about 700 million (it is nearly there now) and I sold out all my shares - best decision I have made over the last 6 months. New shares coming in will take the SOU total to near one billion and sou has not yet produced ANY significant commercial gas sales from its flagship Tendrara field and on its business plan it says "first gas in 2019" !!! so talk of £35 or £25 or even £5 this year are fantasy IMO I would be surprised if SOU hits 150 p this year ! Unlike HOC which has massive production of PM - despite losing production (as planned) at Pallancata to concentrate on new Pablo development and now Inmaculada shutdown (which I expected to hit the SP hard and this has not happened so far) I sold all my SOU at COB Friday but failed to buy more HOC before the final bell ! I will buy in to HOC first thing Monday - about £30K more - looking across the board all the big miners took heavy drops in their SPs on Friday AAL GLEN BHP etc but HOC SP actually went UP a little - this proves to me the resilience of HOC and the quality of its BOD. Ref long term plan - I am 71 and in poor health so anything longer than this year is not attractive to me. Regards and GL - this is still a very intelligent and polite and helpful BB - unlike SOU which has the most foul-mouthed belligerent BB subscribers in the market - LOL Keep up the standards Off this morning to help my daughter move house

I foolishly recently went against my distrust of SOU shares - having seen the SP rise from the depths 25% in 9 days so I bought £30k of the rubbish shares and today sold out with a loss of £2400 - stupid boy Pike - I was doing so well this year but now I will need to put an extra £27600 into HOC to make back my losses ! SOU works on much the same lines as SOLG - but I overruled my experience and instinct and got what I deserved ! Never try to catch a falling knife ! SOU is down from 102p last Sep to 78p today !!! Thank the Lord my HOC shares are still doing reasonably well Regards all will try again next week - back to just HOC as an investment

we saw what happened to the HOC SP when we got the RNS on Pallancata reopening - up 12.5% ! I think the same will happen if we get a RNS reopening Inmaculada. If Inmaculada stays closed we lose 4000 tons per day (tpd) of production - this can be made up by accelerating production in Selene and Arcata and starting Ares Volcan Crespo and Azuca. We also have the Pablo rich veins coming on line - HOC is NOT a one trick pony (even Inmaculada) patience is the key Regards all

The 2 HBOS managers and their 4 accomplices that ripped off companies and individuals to the tune of at least £ 300 million and possibly £ one billion and cost people their businesses and jobs have just been sent to prison for between 4 and 15 years !!!!! That should make the City slickers sit up and take notice and start to deal fairly with customers (I hope) Regards all .

noggers - we have all said that the market hates uncertainty and I am sure that is what is holding the SP back - back of fag packet I estimate that Inmaculada lost production is costing about $US 80 million in gross sales each week so the brokers are nervous. I think HOC is doing well just to hold about 240p. The next RNS will hopefully clear the air and restore mine working ! Eish - we agreed that we do not trust CEY to perform well but the Daily Torygraph business pages ran a big article today to say CEY is awash with cash and intends to pay a special dividend 5 times bigger then planned !!!! This accounts for CEY SP rise today. I was tempted to buy some but kept to HOC ! regards and GL with your own plans

Eish - I am allergic to SOLG - I was in that share when it was a low penny share and I lost a lot of money - the BOD were constantly awarding themselves and their mates cheap or free shares - they had a world class gold field in the Solomon Islands (which I visited in my RAF Hercules back in 1969) but they did not develop the asset preferring the easy option of manipulating shares. I was taught a lesson by the SOL BOD and now I always look at share sales on past RNS to see whether the company has any real value or is just living on share sales. PS I do not believe ANY share is safe - look what has happened to banks - miners - oilys (especially BP - and now Shell is selling off assets like mad) IMO - if you go into SOLG set a profit % and get out quick (if you can sell the shares !) Regards

price of gold rocketing - now $US 1222 GL all

243,2 and 244.4 - was offered 244.2 on dummy sell ! Hope we can hold on today ! Regards all

looking back a few years to 2012 to 2014 Ag peaked at about $US 50 so Ag may well be the dark horse here - HOC is well up on both Ag and Au production with an average 50 % split on each so come on Silver Lady !!! or the Golden Goose ! or both ! LOL Regards all

Ag now $US 17.63 and Au $US 1215 - I think $US 20K is a bit steep for Au - I would not be surprised by $US 2000 for Au - a while back enthusiasts were saying $US 3000 !!!!! Ups and downs on the SP ? Will we follow the usual pattern of down first thing then recover PM ??? I went into cash just before the BREXIT vote posting "Too close to call" - one BB guy said he had bet £ 50K on REMAIN !!! He said "All the experts say there is NO CHANCE of BREXIT winning - I hope he was spinning a yarn - although the Daily Torygraph did say a lady in London bet her life savings of £75K on REMAIN ! The so called experts have a lot to answer for ! I did ask on the BB if these were the same "experts" who were convinced that Labour would win the General Election and Leicester had no chance of winning the Cup - LOL The experts also said if we voted for BREXIT we would be bankrupt as a nation by now - the SM is at record heights and the top directors are now saying BREXIT will bring huge benefits to the UK longer term ! Regards and GL today

Good morning Eish - like New York your entry was so good you named it twice - LOL Next RNS could go either way - good news would be re-opening of all or part of Inmaculada mine. Bad news would be if the tunnel collapse was in a major tunnel and Inmaculada stays closed TFN. A quick look at last year's sales gives a gross of about $US 78 Million per week - probably higher now ! Big money to lose but personal safety is number one priority for BOD so they will be - quite rightly - in no rush to re-open any possibly dangerous areas. A general statement on initial findings would clear the air ! Meanwhile I think the BOD will transfer assets to other sites and accelerate exploitation of the new Pablo veins, I was thinking about doing a bit of day trading in CEY - ENQ - EVR - PMO or SOU but knowing my luck I would jump into other shares just as they drop hard and HOC rises !!! So I will sit on my hands for a while at least. GL with your own plans

Prices well up at the mo - Ag $US 17.60 and Au $US 1213.71 GL all