Hi,

What are peoples opinions of this company seems to be doing well, big demand in China:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/default.stm

Anyone holding this share?

Cheers

what an odd question do you hold?

I do hold, this has been going down any news?

so do I ... nice to have company

kate ..... not another company where that skunk Edmonds is involved!! ...... he makes Timmis combined with Indonesia look like Snow White!

good stuff coming here mr Cynic, I never let you down.

guess i would trust you more than that snake Edmonds, though that is rather damning with faint praise!

Well TMC has 3 bagged since I brought to people's attention, expect better here.

shall i buy some and promise you a big kiss when you are proven correct (again!)?

Hope you did buy some cynic, another bit of news and a tick up ::)))

yes i did ... a very modest 40k (shares!), which felt to be more than enough at the time, and i doubt i shall add either - or at least not for the mo

Tell us when your puckering up then, we got to see this, Kate braise yourself!! lol.

greed overcame me and a further 25k @ 9.25 looked too good an offer to refuse.

there's a limerick about he young lady from Australia too!
Kate - it would be a pleasure, even if not necessarily mutual

Care to tell us the limerick??

Really ancient schoolboy one, as shown by use of "real" money ....

There was a young girl from Australia
Who painted her bum like a dahlia.
A penny a smell was all very well
But twopence a kiss was a failure

Cynic could you stay away from my stock, it stopped going north the moment you came in now look what you've done. :))

chuckle chuckle!

This looks positive, Heres the gist of the article:-
Hard money enthusiasts have long watched for signs that China is switching its foreign reserves from US Treasury bonds into gold bullion. They may have been eyeing the wrong metal.
China's State Reserves Bureau (SRB) has instead been buying copper and other industrial metals over recent months on a scale that appears to go beyond the usual rebuilding of stocks for commercial reasons.

John Reade, metals chief at UBS, said Beijing may have a made strategic decision to stockpile metal as an alternative to foreign bonds. "We're very surprised by Chinese demand. They are buying much more copper than they will need this year. If this is strategic, there may be no effective limit on the purchases as China's pockets are deep."

If his thoughts reflect Communist Party thinking, it would explain the bizarre moves in commodity markets over recent weeks. Copper prices have surged 49pc this year to $4,925 a tonne despite estimates by the CRU copper group that world demand will fall 15pc to 20pc this year as construction wilts.

This is slightly disingenuous. China has the world's largest reserves - $1.95 trillion, mostly in dollars - because it has been holding down the yuan to boost exports. This mercantilist strategy has reached its limits.

Beijing may yet buy gold as well, although it has not done so yet. The gold share of reserves has fallen to 1pc, far below the historic norm in Asia. But if a metal-based currency ever emerges to end the reign of fiat paper, it is just as likely to be a "Copper Standard" as a "Gold Standard".

On it's way up again, hope Cynic's out of these....lol

you know i have put a hex on these and am just suckering in a few more piggy-wigs before gobbling them up!

very heavy traffic in these today .... already 11.5m traded against a daily norm of 7m and sp just testing 200 dma ...... a break through here with impetus would be very jolly, or will sp just back off?