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No news, yet. Investors are likely to start buying though in the run up to expected news, now all requested amendments are in with ARSO.

Morning. Reso just thinks it's all about him. We should all 'keep up' with his personal investments. He doesn't need a poke with a pencil, he always needs to reply to comments about him.

He could always use it to poke reso.

100 now. :-)

INA are getting more and more involved. That could lead to .......

I only see one small trade this morning. All waiting for news.

Been out for a few hours so didn't see yet another prediction. WHYAST you can proof read your post before posting. Novel idea I know but ...

You really think that price too high to buy Gerry? Really? Oh well, it takes all sorts.

There have been no posts on here for 35 minutes. Should we be worried? Eh? :-)

Some say the recent rise in the SP from <1.2p to 1.6p+ has been due to a natural re-rate after a long period of low SP. I wonder if it is actually due to the markets perception of the SML BoD having sensible management of the company? This sale allows the company to concentrate on battery materials, as the primary function of the company.

I think it unlikely that trades were deleted. More likely that there were no trades with those selling having sold and those buying having bought. The combination of the often wide spread and the situation with AST is likely to stop further trading after a point when those intending to trade had done so. It's not unusual to have long periods with no trades with certain shares when a company's situation has reached a hiatus. That also creates the environment for de-rampers to come in to sow doubt. But even they are getting less successful as the holders aren't selling, the weak have been removed and the buyers have dried up with the lack of news.

Last trade on MoneyAm:

12/09/2018 14:35:56 AST 0.76 O 44,273

A tiny buy (4770 shares at just £38) bought at full ask of 0.80p. Any larger buys are going to see this move up.

Interesting possible connection between the US market being open and the possible restart of a US Cobre client in New Mexico. You might wonder whether some may have had advance news of a restart.

I was surprised to read in the RNS that Geoterm had submitted the previous Tuesday. It does mean however ARSO have had over a week to peruse everything by tomorrow. If all is in order we could have the permits by tomorrow even. Considering the delays up till now hopefully the meeting with the British Chambers of Commerce would have impressed them to get things moving. I don't expect reso to agree though.

You persist misiekm. No point in asking here. Even reso doesn't know. Even Colin doesn't know. Even ARSO don't know ... yet. These committees, they have to meet and decide on specific days of the month.

I don't get worked up by reso, bradis. I'm mildly amused. I do get a little annoyed by his persistent rants against AST. He must have had a very bad time from them. He also skews opinion. But he intends to do that.

Listen to the podcast misiekm. Colin is as definite as he can be. He can't speak for ARSO. They have to confirm as they have promised to the British Chambers of Commerce in their meeting of 8th August. No point in haranguing people on here. Email Colin if you must. Even he is waiting for ARSO.

I did wonder why the RNS came out on Monday when the amendments were submitted last Tuesday. Maybe it was because they wanted to get out the other information at the same time. I also see reso's point about the three week shut down not being news to the BoD. This dissemination of information has historically been poor from AST. They may say it is annual maintenance and therefore should be a known factor. But shareholders should be informed even if it is a regular occurrence. We would not necessarily know the annual maintenance arrangements of a third party company.

I tend to put these points in to the cockup and money saving category though, where it is cheaper to put it all in the one RNS. Reso clearly puts them in the conspiracy category. My reasoning for the former category is that Colin tends to get things done eventually in the way he says he will and appears to be moving the company along in the best way possible, although reso may well think reso could do better.

The difference between me, others and reso is that we are balanced and view all points whereas reso only sees the downsides. Frankly if you only see downside why bother looking at AST at all?

Reso you have a view of 'reality' with AST which indicates a strong bias against. Nothing balanced with you. Any 'facts' you proffer are either mainly dubious opinion or historical. As I have said AST have now promised two lots of timing with amendments which have happened as promised. Things are definitely much more on track now. And I can say that having witnessed nearly three years of AST performance, or lack of performance. They may have been poor historically. Recent evidence suggests a change.