A thread set up and dedicated to Gold and Mining stocks.

Gold could be set to bounce up again in the near future and throughout the autumn and winter. Higher oil prices and inflationary worries both here and in the states mean its an excelent hedge against the falling dollar and weaking markets.

Please post which stocks you feel may benefit other posters. Lets all try and make some money from Mining.

cheers GF.

AFE is flying this a.m.

Yup must be on the back of news due out next week.

cheers Gf.

This was mentioned in t1ps.
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I hold a few New Millenium (NML) shares and they are currently waiting for imminent good news on their Angolan project. However, as a relative beginner, I would greatly appreciate the opinion of more experienced investors in the mining sector.

Well, lads and lasses, what do you think?

Guru,

I hold a few NML.

they are an AIM traded Australian company, with prospects in Greenland (diamonds / nobium), and Angola (diamonds).

They are currently concentrating on their C9 concession in Angola, as it offers a quick route to cashflow, that can be used to advance the Greenland properties.

The history is that NML promised to have equipment onsite in April, and be mining soon after. The reality is that schedule was far too ambitious, and changes were made at the top of the company after this failure.

The current situation is as follows;

NML have purchased mining equipment for the Badenhorst brothers, Kimberley S.Africa. A small dscounted placing was done to finance this, which did not go down too well with the current shareholders, but we have moved on now.

The equipment was shipped from Cape Town to Angola, where it has now cleared customs at quayside, and is due to depart today in a convoy of 40 trucks for the other side of the country, journey time around 5 days. The final few kilometres are through difficult terrain, and the route requires some "gardening" to be passable, so it will be slow going. NML are doubling up with another mining company for the convoy for "safety in numbers".



Angola has internal customs, so maybe a few hurdles to pass yet.

Once onsite, mining is due to commence stright away, and we hope for decent grades from the off. The Badenhorst brothers are experienced miners, and "can't wait to start" according to NML!

This is clearly a speculative play, with additional country risk, but, IMHO, is a reasonable speculation within a balanced portfolio.

If you have just invested, there shouldn't be too long to wait for commencement of mining, so there is a reasonable chance of some immediate upside in the SP.

NML are also in discussions about further joint ventures in Angola.

I hold, and am considering adding as mining approaches, but nothing is certain until those initial grades are announced, so DYOR, and good luck with whatever you chose to do.

Further information can be obtained at the company website ;

http://www.new-millennium.com.au/index.php

Andy.

Guru,

This has just been posted on another BB, by an infomed poster.

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4-9-2004

NML and JCI are sharing a convoy for security reasons, and NML has been held back a few days by JCI as their preparation and equipment delivery was a bit behind. This is a seriously massive mobilisation of men and equipment - a 2km long convoy of 40 big semi trailer trucks and hundreds of men and security accompanying. In fact this is the biggest peacetime convoy to leave Luanda, ever!

It will be a week up to site at least, and then demobilisation, assembly and then production begins. The fact that a major like JCI is joining forces with NML is extremely interesting, and demonstrates to me that management are taken seriously and this is going to be a decent sized operation. I have been part of a big shipment of stuff before in Australia but this is another order of magnitude greater - it is a serious logistical task and there is a lot of big kit being moved on these monster trucks. This will be the fifth mining operation in the country and the government is supplying the security (ie guaranteeing that their interest in the project becomes a production share) and ensuring smooth operation of the convoy. We are only a matter of days away from NML issuing some serious news and getting a decent rerating from the market as a result.

Intercept,

That's a very harsh statement IMHO, they were certanly guilty of being "overly optimistic", but more than that you can't say for sure.

Changes at the top resulted from that let down, and now they are doing it properly it would appear.

The facts are, They have bought the equipment, it has been shipped from Cape Town, S.Africa, to Luanda, Angola, then cleared customs, and been loaded upon a number of flat bed trucks for the trek to C9, a 4 - 5 day jouney across Angola.

The convoy was due to leave yesterday, so that's where we are now.

The Badhorst brothers are reputed to be experienced alluviam miners, and are onsite.

Not too much time to wait for initial grades now, I'm holding, probably adding, in the realisation that there is risk, and a good potential reward, and my position size within the portfolio reflects that.

I figured it was you.

Every one to their own investment style I suppose, and far be it from me to pffer any advise, but not sure what you're achieving by buying single 6p shares and paying dealing costs each time.

You seem very bitter about NML, did you take a hit early this year?

Is it Testex again with yet another name change? lol

intercept,

Well I am not blinkered, and do change my view from time to time, when circumstances change.

I still beleive NML are on track to be mining within the next month or so, and we just need confirmation of the grades IMHO.

Please feel free to tip away, I have an open mind.

I have started an NML thread, to avoid dominating this thread with discussions on one share.

Bisichi just goes from strength to strength as does Anglo Pacific on the ever increasing coal price. Rumoured that Cambrian Mining will have a pit mining and selling coal in the last 1/4 of this year.

Well worth further investigation.

cheers GF.

Almost 2 Million shares traded on AFE so far today. Does anyone know what is going on?

Further to my recent post regarding South African Resources (SFU), the SP continues to rise steadily, up 6% today.

Regards

PTH

hi guys
have you got any views about bhp billiton. it seems the share price is stuck at around 520p. i have got a bet (BUY) on it 533-503. I THOUGHT THE PRICE WOULD RISE QUITE QUICKLY DUE TO VERY GOOD COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE ANY VIEWS.
CHEERS

Be carefull Zeb, have a gander at the home page on here and the outlook from the US second item down, a suprise profit warning from commodity and alluminium giant Alcoa. Could affect the sector
cheers Gf.

hi goldfinger
thanks for replying. There will be as well a report about the china's growth state on monday which will be very important for the mining sector. I personnally think there will be a little slowdown . IF there is a downtrend hope 505 p (bhp billiton) will be a good support.

cheers

Seb thanks for that info on the China report , I wasnt aware and I have a fair % of my portfolio in metals. I will be looking out for the report.

cheers GF.

Feature Story
Date: September 09, 2004

Anglo Pacific Now Has To Get Real Value For Its Unlisted Investments In Canada

It is never the easiest of tasks to dissect the results from Anglo Pacific Group and the interim results to end June show the pattern has not changed. Profits before tax were up from 1.74 million to 2.7 million, but 718,000 of this increase was accounted for by the sale of fixed assets. Peter Boycott, the chairman, says that With the increasing demand for energy products from China, India and the Far East, the outlook for coking and steaming coal prices looks to remain buoyant. Developing our coal energy interests in Canada and elsewhere will remain a major focus for the group. The coal royalties from two mines in Queensland, Australia, are the engine room for the company but they only increased by 510,000 so presumably the full impact of high coal prices is yet to come.

The other problem of which investors have to be aware is that the royalty interests do not necessarily provide a steady and rising stream of income. They arise when the two producers are mining from the private rather than the Crown areas of the mines and are paid in arrears. Last year mining at the Kestrel mine operated by Rio Tinto and the Crinum mine of BHP Billiton took place predominantly in the Queensland Governments area of the coal deposits. This year it was expected to switch back again, but there is not too much evidence of this as yet. The directors are maintaining their strategy of paying out between 40 and 60 per cent of net royalties after 30 per cent Australian tax as dividend, but will not make up their minds about the interim until November. Provided the mining takes place in the private areas and sales of coal get full benefit from higher prices, investors could be in for a treat. At the beginning of August a final dividend was paid for the year to end December 2003 which makes clear just how much in arrears the word arrears implies.

The company lays great store by the value of these coal royalty interests which rose from 44.3 million to 47.1 million in the half year. Anglo Pacific also has a 65 per cent interest in the 665 million tonne Groundhog coal deposit as well as owning the 121.5 million tonne Trefi deposit in the well established Peace River coal field. Both of these are in British Columbia and work is continuing on them encouraged by the much increased activity in that part of Canada during the last six months with projects going ahead at Perry Creek, Burnt River and Willow Creek amongst others. With higher world prices for metallurgical, thermal and domestic coal, Groundhog and Peace River have now become valuable assets which are still carried in the books at negligible cost. Discussions on developing them with joint venture partners continue, but it has to be admitted that Groundhog is in a pretty remote area.

In addition the company has a 15 per cent interest in the Merritt coal bed methane project. Coal bed methane is an emerging industry in Canada and the US is well ahead of it in the development of natural gas resources. Merritts resources consist of 31 billion cubic feet of coal bed methane and 218 million tonnes of bituminous grade coal. This interest is in process of being reversed into a Canadian quoted vehicle where funds will be raised locally to take the projects forward. The background for developing Merritt remains positive as the move will put real value on the stake at a time when the directors have seen a distinct shift in sentiment towards coal energy and oil in the first half of 2004.

In the period under review Anglo Pacific therefore took some profits on its gold and precious metal investments as indicated by the sale of fixed assets and has increased its exposure to base metals as well as coal and coal energy. Few details are given, but certainly the investment in Kirkland Lake Gold was reduced. The company still has a holding of nearly 20 per cent in Platinum Australia , however, which has recently announced projects in South Africa. These involve the process technology developed at the Panton project in Australia which produces a PGM concentrate of a grade high enough to go direct to refiners, cutting out smelting. As a result the technology could produce good revenue returns without the requirement for substantial inward investment. It is somewhat ironic, nevertheless, that a company which has tended to shun South Africa finds itself transported there, like it or not, as it would be difficult to liquidate this holding without crystalising a significant loss.

The company has a number of stakes in other quoted mining companies which are concentrated in North America, Canada and Australia. These include a stake of nearly 20 per cent in Canadian listed Alto Ventures for which the interest in the Oxford Lake gold property was swapped. Together with the coal and coal energy projects in Canada these were valued at the end of June at around 7.45 million net of the realised profits. Cash amounted to 1.5 million with no borrowings and unused bank facilities of 300,000. Anglo Pacific is therefore in a strong financial position and still has 29 million of tax losses to be carried forward against capital gains. For its next trick it has to come up with a deal, or deals, which will put real value into its Canadian unlisted interests.

cheers Gf.

All blue for NML and TSG this morning, lots of small buys, but no trades for POG so far, CDN is a share that can drive investers mad, with these kind of shares its just a waiting game and investers in these shares not like waiting.