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Ros, I agree and wasn't worried about the re-rate either. BMN's fundamentals and BE make me feel nice and calm during MM's games. A Gypsy said you have another 30yrs left, just think what could happen.
Sir David Attenborough is 92yrs, he's still the best on the telly and is tipped to have the Christmas No1.

P.s. At least you missed all the trolling we had yesterday. Appears LSE have already removed a big chunk of posts today too. I was reading through the early morning ones, got as far as the chap who took umbrage at the jokes, then pages went poof. Looks like Knuttie was on the case tho :)

I was just about to ask if a few posts had disappeared. I'm catching up this morning and it seemed like a whole page went when I refreshed my screen. Was it another troll?

Squirty, I forgot to say thanks for your shareholdings analysis yesterday with regard to a potential takeover. We had debated the risk of an early takeover on the BB last Sunday, and it is a concern for many. It's good to know PIs currently have the percentage of voting rights to fight one. Hope we don't have to.

@dimmented - off topic, but do you have an iPhone or an Android?

I can never get emojies to work on here. It just posts a load of gobbledygook :(

Pdub - wise words regarding BMN (newbies, also see today's posts by AlastairMcgrift, BigBiteNow and Nickderby)

Johnny Be Bad - filtered (trader games)

Skier1 - already filtered (take yourself off piste and stop disrupting this BB with baseless info)

Fizzydrink - you've gone a bit flat. You previously said that you may only stay invested until end of Jan and would like to make 20%. I'm convinced you will make the profit you hope to. Plenty of good news expected before then.

GLA

Hey Deanosbooty, great to hear your story and what a sound investment BMN has been for you. I'm from a single parent family too. My lovely elderly mum is pretty old school working class when it comes to money (keep it in the bank, premium bonds or under the mattress lol). I recently told her I had sold all my safe but boring FTSE 100 shares and put my life savings into BMN. She raised her eyebrows and I expected a lecture, but she said "Well, I suppose you need to speculate to accumulate, tell me all about it." I bore her silly talking about Vanadium and VRFBs, but she appreciates my enthusiasm. Now she asks "Are you a millionaire yet?" Not yet mum, but give it a few years :)

Thanks BBN, I always look forward to reading your posts. There are already some really good news stories from around the world that support this.

Costa Rica: Has one of the greenest electric grids in the world, with over 98% of electricity generated by renewable energy sources. In 2017, the country of five million was powered entirely by renewable energy for 300 consecutive days. By 2030, Costa Rica hopes to make a complete switch to renewable energy.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2018/11/01/championing-costa-ricas-transition-to-clean-transportation-systems

Tonga: To enable Tonga's shift from fossil fuel-based energy generation and achieve its NDC targets of generating half of electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and 70% by 2030, the GCF Board approved the Tonga Renewable Energy Project (TREP). The project will help install utility scale energy storage systems to facilitate the integration of variable renewable energy to Tonga's power grid.
https://www.greenclimate.fund/-/gcf-supporting-energy-transformation-in-small-island-developing-states-sids-with-the-financing-of-energy-storage-systems

You're a meanie Ninvestor, the next Warren Buffett won't fall for that :)

seaside, that's lovely. Better than premium bonds. Could be a new Warren Buffet in the making.

I'm convinced seaside. So much to look forward to. I'm holding long term :)

...some people bother to come on this BB to deliberately try to de-ramp BMN with baseless information, and make shareholders feel insecure. Some may be trolls, others may have an agenda, e.g. shorting the share. Either way, their shenanigans backfire as there are too many well researched shareholders here. Most can immediately counter with a sound argument regarding our fundamentals, commodity market predictions, etc. If anything, as a relative newbie, I'm always left feeling more confident about my investment than before. Just saying.

I assume from the replies and references to alpine pursuits that skier1 started this thread (filtered). They popped up Friday night talking of 'lots of other mines' etc, but provided no evidence (thread has since disappeared). Don’t remember bubbles being mentioned, only that they wanted to burst BMN's bubble.

I'm with you there Ros. I think we've all seen examples of political correctness gone mad.

As most of the older ladies (and gentlemen) I know have nerves of steel, I thought your comment was bang on the money.

Welcome to the Bushy collective Brad. We're a friendly but assertive bunch :)

Ros, from one not so old lady to another, I like your style :)

Welcome 1Squadr0n

I think TBP is view only at the moment, and the 'join us' button not working may be related to that.

Thanks for your intelligent and thought provoking analysis Alfa.

I wonder who the large investor(s) is?

Maybe it's Elon Musk looking to diversify......ha!

I feel like stamping my foot. I don't want a buy out. I want to remain a shareholder and watch BMN grow to become an industry leader.

Takeovers can take awhile though. I bought Sky shares a few months before the Murdoch takeover shenanigans began. He offered £10.75 a share in Dec 16. It got held up for over a year due to parliament, Ofcom, CMA reports, etc. During that time the value of Sky increased due to strong results and winning rights to Premier League football. By Feb 2018, the share was trading higher than the takeover offer. In April 2018 Comcast entered a bid of £12.50 a share. A bidding war started and it eventually went to a blind auction in September 2018. Comcast won with a sealed bid of £17.28.

Obviously BMN is a different kettle of fish, but the renewable energy storage sector is moving along at quite a pace. BMN is already a vertically integrated Vanadium producer, add in Bushveld Energy and the company's value will increase exponentially. And, as it has already been said, we have other sizable ore assets.

In our sector, we're not just a one trick pony, we're a multi trick unicorn.

Fortune, Mikhail and shareholders won't want to let BMN go easily.

Oops, I got the abbreviation the wrong way round, unless anyone is interested in retro billing

*VFRB should of course be VRFB

Schoolgirl error :)

loudspeaker, thanks for sharing, there is so much future potential for Vanadium.

I know it's not as glamorous as VFRBs or aerospace alloys, but I got excited that it said there is 'the possibility of new markets in window films.' That could be huge!

The latest smart window technology uses vanadium dioxide nanoparticles, and the smart window market was valued at $1 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach nearly $3 billion by 2021, according to NanoMarkets, LC. https://www.anl.gov/article/nanoparticles-for-improving-smartwindow-energy-efficiency

Just think, in the future, buildings will have vanadium reinforced steel for safety, VFRBs for electricity, and vanadium dioxide smart windows that heat or cool as the outside temperature fluctuates. Lovely Jubbly!

Fellow bushy @Mrremmy posted a great tweet today 'How the renewable energy industry can help solve Africa’s youth unemployment'

If you're not on twitter, here's a link to the article Mr Remmy tweeted

https://ugbusiness.com/6106/how-the-renewable-energy-industry-can-help-solve-africas-youth-unemployment

This ties in with BMN's vision as Bushveld Energy aims to transform Africa by addressing the continent's greatest obstacle to faster growth and industrialisation: RELIABLE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY.
http://www.bushveldenergy.com/