Ive always said I would not start looking at the Gold Explorers untill POG broke through $420, well its done that today and this company in my mind is the best potential producer around, and heres why.

MANAGEMENT

Has two experinced Managers in mining in Mark Parker and John Park, both have extensive exploration management in Africa in mining and have proved themselfs in the past selling out small mines to the big boys.

THE MINES

ZAMBIA.

Here the company as 5 potential Block busters but the REAL GEM of the company Sasere, known as EAGLE EYE is an old Gold mine but recent sampling shows that it could provide massive deposits of Copper and Gold.

These are the drilling results we are waiting for. Estimations are fantastic and we could see that the company is sitting on deposits worth many times over of the market cap of the company of circa 12.2 million.

MOZAMBIQUE

Three sites here and Nickel is the one they are looking for. Dont forget Nickel is the highest commodity riser after Gold and is hitting new highs.


TANZANIA

Big prospect here is Miyabi.

African Eagle are carrying out a joint venture with the giant Miner Gold Fields. Drilling results are to be given to Goldfields by 31/January this year.

If results are expected what the management of Goldfields want, African Eagle retain a 30% stake in one massive deposit.

This is an exciting investment but one that is HIGH RISK like any other gold explorer.

We should have news very early on two fronts.

If this news is positive we are looking at one hell of an investment.

Please Dyor and remember your buying and selling actions are in your own hands.

Cheers GF.

ps, up 19% today waiting for the results.

by Zak Mir of www.Zaks-TA.com and Tom Winnifrith of www.t1ps.com

It would appear that having African in you company name is as hot today as being a dot com was in 1999. As a pure exercise in fun, we thought it apt to review three of the winners from this stable. We have to admit the three are all resource stocks which are pretty hit right now. Two of them also emerge from the same stable: The John Teeling emporium of resource juniors based in Dublin. This analysis is a two part one. On the one hand Zak serves up a technical analysis, on the other there are some fundamentals from Tom.

African Eagle

Zak: African Eagle (AFE) had it first breakout from an extended base like many stock market minnows in the autumn and after a period of consolidation we saw the second spike last month. In fact though there has been a pullback to both the 50 day moving average and the October support line at 19p, I would regard the current position as quite an appealing buy that would target the top of the price channel at 37p. The downside risk is minimised by setting a stop loss of a weekly close below the aforementioned October support line at 19p. All in all a very decent risk reward play.



Tom: Before the analysis, I should declare that I own this stock in my SIPP. I run my SIPP in public and in full view on www.t1ps.com and bought in on Monday at 19.88p. I tipped the stock in November at 17.75p. earlier this week the shares slipped a bit when Gold Fields decided not to exercise an option to farm into the Miyabi gold project in Tanzania. Gold Fields needs 2 million ounces to be interested, Miyabi is - I suspect a 1 million mine. But that is still highly commercial and on its own worth more than African Eagle's current market value (at 22p - 16.6 million pounds). African also has a very exciting base metals project (eagle Eye) in Zambia where recent drilling data has been cracking and with more than two million pounds in the kitty can explore aggressively so that when it does farm out it is on the right terms. The stock is clearly speculative but very exciting.

GF yes monterrico have few copper sites in Peru, they also have a good portfolio of projects.... I have started a thread a while ago, search for it. Just to let you know that together with Chile, Peru is in the World top 5 copper exporter.

GOOD MORNING EAGLES.... UP TO 10.23% SO FAR.... KEEP ON FLYING PLEASE. NEED TO CATCH UP TO DO.

The Eagle has taken off....keep on flying and i will no longer be Piston Broke

After the news last monday just shows how robust this share is to bounce back so quickly.

up nearly 9% today

seemed lots of profit taking in the morning....

yes, such a shame with the news we got now. Nearly 50% accumulated gains by this morning performance. Mind you a lot of the mining stock are down too. Still it is a hold, has to bounce back.

GF, u still here or sold?? any inputs on the latest?

Still in and added XM. If you look on the companys site there are more details today about eagle eye and the copper find. Exciting news. Still waiting news of a partner instead of goldfields, but Im sure they will get one.

cheers gf.

Heres a very bullish article...........

Feature Story



Date : February 11, 2004



Looks Like African Eagle Has An Elephant By The Tail At Its Sasare Project in Zambia.

As anticipated yesterday in our piece setting the scene at Indaba, AIM listed African Eagle has come out with further drilling results which confirm an iron oxide copper gold deposit at its Sasare project in eastern Zambia. It is still early days and rain interfered with the drilling programme, but the significance should not be overlooked. There are only about half a dozen such deposits in the world; Australia has two of them and Africa none. Olympic Dam has a resource of around 1 billion tonnes of copper and gold and Ernest Henry 170 million tonnes. People close to African Eagle see geological similarities with Ernest Henry which is a dipping breccia style deposit. To give an idea of scale it extracts 10 million tonnes/year of ore from an open pit operation and produces around 360,000 tonnes of concentrate containing 100,000 tonnes of copper and 125,000 ounces of gold a year..

If the African Eagle team is right about this, and all of them – John Park, Mark Parker Chris Davies and Euan Worthington – have track records of success and plenty of expertise and experience, they could have an elephant by the tail. And an elephant with an even wider suite of metals and minerals than Ernest Henry as silver has also been confirmed and cobalt and bismuth are suspected.

The drilling programme on which they are reporting was designed to test some of many targets identified within an extensive copper bearing zone revealed by geochemical and geological surveys since the project was acquired as part of a package owned by a private company in 2002. The results to date show mineralised zones up to 66 metres wide containing higher grade zones with up to 5% copper. According to operations director Chris Davies,” “Eagle Eye is a large mineralised system which we have only pinpricked by drilling so far. The assays from the first holes eleven holes confirm the presence of a large area of copper mineralisation containing narrower, richer copper and silver bearing zones. These results and the geology revealed by the drilling confirm an iron oxide copper gold association.”

Statements such as this by an experienced field geologist are not made until a fair amount of evidence has been assembled to confirm the facts. It is still early days, however, and Davies admits that much of the geochemical anomaly remains to be tested and there is plenty more drilling to be done once the rains ease off in April. The original discovery was made back in March when African Eagle announced that sampling of old prospecting pits, trenches and shafts at Sasare, coupled with remote sensing studies, geological modelling and a thorough review by the company of past exploration data from the area, all indicated that the licence area contained an iron oxide copper gold deposit

As a result African Eagle designed a programme of reverse circulation drilling to test numerous targets within the extensive anomalous copper zones. Eleven drill holes totalling 1,437 metres were successfully completed before the rain brought it to a close. Drill samples were collected over 1metre intervals and composited over 3metres for assay. In addition to the drilling, African Eagle carried out chip channel sampling of trenches to the north and northeast of the Mweze prospect, to investigate the strike extension of the copper anomaly. These provided further encouraging results, including 22 metres at 0.9% copper from a trench situated 600 metres northeast of Mweze. Earlier grab sampling in the same area returned values of 8.7 and 2.9 g/t gold.

It appears that sulphidic mineralisation in several drillholes a long way apart is continuous over up to 80 metres in depth. This is significant as it gives some idea of the size of this particular elephant as the eleven holes were spread over more than five kilometres in length and at least 2 kilometres in width. The mineralisation is also close to surface as evidenced by the drilling statistics. When work restarts in a couple of months time, detailed geochemical soil sampling, ground magnetic and IP geophysical surveys, geological and alteration mapping will also be extended towards the north-east to test anomalous areas defined from last year’s reconnaissance sampling. There should be a whole lot more news to come from this one over the coming months . In the meantime it is worth remembering that all the big boys are on the spot at Indaba to grill the African Eagle team and the company is only capitalised at just over 20 million.

cheers GF.

GF you are a star!! where did u get this article from? Thank you for these input. I would like you to read a bit more about Monterrico copper site in Peru and take a look at its chart. Monterrico are doing extremely well, 400% up since its inception in AIM this year. If African Eagle's copper find is as good as Monterrico or better, believe you me, we are in for excelent dividends. I will hold and perhaps add.

Hi XM. Monterrrico is on my watch list but I think I have too many miners. Got to keep a balanced portfolio.

Heres the site, you probably know of it...............

http://www.minesite.com/

cheers GF.

My portfolio is where the money really is. Mining, nearly 75% the rest is techs. Had a mix portfolio but other sectors are not giving me the income mining is. My star performers are so far Monterrico and African Eagle, Jubilee Platinum and Petrel Resources. My worst are CMS Webview, Peacock and Protec.

Here are some encouraging news.... Another fund management company placing their faith in this company by topping up their portfolio.

African Eagle Resources PLC
24 February 2004

African Eagle Resources plc

ISSUES OF SHARES ON EXERCISE OF WARRANTS

CHANGE OF SIGNIFICANT SHAREHOLDING

African Eagle announces that the holders of 780,001 warrants have exercised at a
price of 6p, bringing the total number of shares in issue to 76,469,569. The
Company has made application for the new shares to be admitted to trading on
AIM.

Also, the Company was notified by Carmignac Gestion on 9 February that it
acquired 1,075,000 shares on 5 February, bringing the total held by funds
managed by Carmignac to 5,575,000 shares or 7.29% of the shares now in issue.

24 February 2004




This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

What has it started dropping recently? Any news or views

Good news. Copper has risen 1000 points since november last year now standing at 3000$/tonne. Great reads regarding copper in IC and Shares Magazine. If this continues AFE could reach reach 100p by the end of the year. Lets hope Eagle Eye is a top copper find. See report.

Price soars on solid demand
Base metal prices have rallied in recent weeks and copper is one of the metals leading the charge. In the past few weeks, the copper price has risen 10% to a new eight-year high of USc124/lb and analysts at Deutsche Bank think it still has momentum left. They think the copper price could test the 1995 high of $3,230/t in the coming months, if not weeks. There have been four such rallies in the past 35 years, but this is no flash in the pan, they say. Higher prices could be here to stay as improving demand and limited new mine capacity should support higher prices over the longer term.

Copper is the metal of choice for analysts at Deutsche Bank for its increasingly tight underlying fundamentals. A range of more speculative factors have also all aligned to give the price a fillip, in particular Chinese demand and US dollar weakness. In China, imports of copper rose a solid 15% year on year in 2003 and this momentum is expected to be a significant short and long-term driver of price. There are also signs of improving demand in some of the more developed markets, according to Deutsche Bank, particularly in the US and Europe, which are currently reflected in higher inventory outflows. Added to this, a strong speculative interest in copper has contributed to higher prices.

On the fundamental side, analysts cite tight supply as the key reason behind the price gain. A review of the projects in production, or due for production, in the next two years reveals just how limited these growth opportunities are. Apart from smaller expansions, there are only five large projects contributing to the growth in mine supply this year Sessego, El Teniente, Escondida, Collahausi and Olympic Dam.

A number of mining restarts should add to volumes, but the net result is more than offset by the impact of the Freeports Grasberg mine slippage and other disruptions, says Deutsche Bank. Freeport recently reduced its copper production targets for 2004 by 28% from 1.4mlb to 1.0mlb because of a delay in the mining of high-grade ore at the site. While these sort of disruptions tend to be once-offs, the main reason behind the fall in supply is the decline in exploration, R&D spending and capital investment across the commodity industry. These supply constrictions should place strong upward pressure on refined prices, increasing the probability of further price spikes.

Given this price momentum, Deutsche recommends investors take positions in mining stocks with exposure to the copper cycle. Its preferred pick is Anglo-Australian mining giant, BHP Billiton (BHP), which is in the process of ramping up its production of both copper and aluminium to tap into the improving demand. Analysts say: It continues to benefit from broad commodity exposure, while the expansion in copper and aluminium is proving well-timed. The groups opportunities are not just limited to earnings from copper; analysts also see the potential for expansion in its iron ore business. The volume expansion in iron ore, planned for 2006/07, would offset any momentum lost from the scaling back in its capital expenditure programme.

Australian-based mining giant Rio Tinto (RIO) is another miner offering exposure across a range of base metals. The company recently reported net earnings of $1.382 billion pre-exceptionals in 2003 against $1.53 billion the previous year. The result was weaker than expected, particularly in industrial minerals, aluminium and energy coal. Copper earnings were a strong point, as were earnings from iron ore and diamonds, according to analysts.

WMC Resources (A:WMRX) also recently reported full-year 2003 results. Full-year profits of A$246 million after tax were well ahead of consensus expectations of A$216 million. The income split revealed mixed results across its various divisions, with a particularly strong nickel contribution offset by weaker copper and fertiliser contributions, according to analysts. The surprise factor was the strong performance of the nickel price, particularly in the second half, which led to a premium in contained metal sales contracts.

Picking stocks with exposure to copper earnings is an investment choice that is underscored by strong fundamentals, according to Deutsche Bank. It is expected that the decline in copper inventory will increase the likelihood of further price rises, say the analysts, and for the mining giants which have a hand in this production, increased copper earnings may be a feature of balance sheets for years to come.


Copper mine expansions - major mine (Kt)
Country Mine 2003 2004 2005
Brazil Sossego 80 180
Chile El Teniente 283 458 454
Chile Escondida 860 1050 1200
Chile Collahuasi 393 465 475
Australia Olympic Dam 172 240 245
Source: Deutsche Bank estimates

I think will play some more money in AFE, im confident on its copper venture in Zambia.

Anyone got any thoughts about why AFE is sliding. I hoped it was having a breather before going north again. I have heard no news that would explain the slide.

Cheers in anticipation of any responses

B

I agree, The reason probably is because there isn't likely to be any news for 4-8 weeks and so people are going to be tempted to be sell and possible come back in later. I would say if you can afford to hold then you wont miss a sudden rise if there is early news.
I am tempted to buy some more at this price. I can't see this going below 19/20p at the most however I can see it racing up to 30+.
Only my opinion though ..