Beacon Hill Resources is very popular at the moment on other BBs yet here there seems to be nothing - so I thought I'd put together the stuff I've gather from the Internets and see if anyone here is investing in BHR - I'm not but I might at some time in the future when the fuss has died down

Beacon Hill Resources

There was a placing @ 3p last week, today the same amount of the Placing has been on the market a couple times

The share price is bouncing from the 3p also bottom recently

A follow through today at 3.33p, volatile earlier as is on the order book ( AT)

Something is happening today, some large trades are moving the share
certainly there are on the turn

On the turn for a couple days now, there was large volume 3 weks ago, when share price was at its lows

The chart shows a typical bullish sign of an Inverted " HEAD & SHOULDERS "

Great chart.

Interim Results

H1 2013 Highlights

+300% increase in coal wash plant capacity to 1.8 Mtpa completed at flagship Minas Moatize Coking Coal Project in Tete, Mozambique ("Minas Moatize")
o First low volatile premium hard coking coal and export quality thermal coal product produced
o Plant commissioning phase is progressing well with potential challenges identified and being rectified

+31% increase in JORC Resource at Minas Moatize - upgraded to 86.8 Mt (Measured and Indicated of 76.3 Mt) from 66.4 Mt Measured and Indicated
-- Strategic end-to-end logistics solution to transport coking coal produced at Minas Moatize to export markets via the port of Beira:

o Rail: Receipt of 7.7% capacity allocation on the Sena Line initially equivalent to 0.5Mtpa and anticipated to rise to 1.5 Mtpa following Sena Line capacity expansion
o Rail infrastructure development is progressing well with the first Minas Moatize trains expected to depart for the Port of Beira in Q4 2013
o Rolling Stock: U$21 million Lease agreement with Thelo Rolling Stock Leasing Proprietary Limited ("Thelo") for the provision of 5 locomotives and 90 wagons for the Sena Rail Line
o Leasing conditions precedent finalised with the first rolling stock expected to arrive at Minas Moatize in Q4 2013

Mining Contract signed between the Company and the Government of Mozambique to enhance the stability of the fiscal and regulatory environment for a period of 25 years
-- Approximately US$21 million (approximately GBP14.1 million) raised through a placing to strengthen the Company's balance sheet, upgrade rail infrastructure including rail sidings, to commence the Phase 2B and 2C wash plant upgrades and for rail rolling stock related and general working capital purposes
-- Funding discussions progressing with both conventional pre-export senior debt providers and a number of equipment providers to vendor finance the capex for Phase 2B and Phase 2C expansion on a Build, Own, Transfer ("BOT") basis
Rowan Karstel, Chief Executive Officer of Beacon Hill commented, "The first six months of 2013 was an absolute turnaround for Beacon Hill. The Company achieved a number of key milestones which will ensure our Minas Moatize Coking Coal Project will become a tier 1 asset with SENA rail access to the Port of Beira, Mozambique. We continue to advance Minas Moatize as evidenced by inaugural production of coking and thermal coal following the completion of the first phase of our wash plant upgrade.

"While the spot price of coking coal is lower than in previous years, low cost producers such as Beacon Hill remain well positioned to build value, particularly when considering the high quality specifications of our product and the on-going progress made in executing our cost efficient logistics solution. This differentiates us from many of our peers and with the associated rail infrastructure developing well, we look forward to completing the commissioning of the wash plant and moving into full production over the coming months."

CHAIRMANS REPORT
Overview
I am pleased to report the first half of 2013 has been one of the best periods for the development of Minas Moatize Coking Coal project since its acquisition by the Company in 2010. The new management team made an immediate impact and achieved a number of strategic milestones. The Company has progressed in every aspect of our business: recruitment of an experienced coal executive team continued with key appointments including Chief Operating Officer, Coal Marketing Director and Rail Manager, the Phase 2 wash plant commissioning increased our processing capacity threefold to 1.8 Mtpa, we achieved landmark Sena rail allocation, we broke ground at on- and off- load rail sidings, achieved a +31% JORC resource upgrade, secured US$21 million of new rolling stock and signing the Mining Contract with Government of Mozambique, to list just some of the notable achievements during H1 2013.

The frustration for the Board and shareholders is that despite this transformational first half and a US$21 million equity placement during April 2013, the Company's absolute share price performance continued to underperform in comparison to our expectations. The main reason can be attributed to the state of global coal markets where the spot hard coking coal price fell to five year lows during the first half of the year at approximately US$135/ton FOB Australia. With a modest recovery recorded since then and taking into account the long run marginal cost of production in Australia (the world's largest exporter) is approximately US$160/ton, we have hopefully reached the bottom with a number of higher cost producers incurring operating losses.

Corporate & Financial
In April 2013, against a difficult market backdrop for coal and commodities generally, the Company was successful in raising a further US$21 million and expanded its shareholder base. This was a vote of confidence in our new strategy, our new management, and quality of our coking coal asset.

The balance sheet remains strong with net assets of US$68 million and cash and contractor prepayments at the period end of US$13.6 million (including US$6 million of contractor prepayments). The Board is confident that during H2 2013 it will secure the necessary funding for the Phase 2B/2C wash plant expansion to 2.8Mtpa via a Build, Operate, Transfer ("BOT") contract with one of its preferred contractors.

Outlook
The Board expects difficult coal market conditions experienced during H1 2013 to persist for the remainder of the year. Nonetheless, we have a clear and focused plan to establish profitability by increasing our scale and operational efficiency.

The Company is in the fortunate position that upon completion of Phase 2B upgrade to 2.8 Mtpa, Minas Moatize will transition from a Tier II to a Tier I cash cost producer, capable of generating profits even at the current depressed prices. In addition, the Minas Moatize coking coal project scores well in every objective criteria for a globally significant coking coal asset namely (i) significant JORC resource (ii) tier I cash cost (iii) availability of rail infrastructure (iv) quality hard coking coal (v) presence in the emerging Mozambique coking coal basin (vi) it has entered the production phase. For this reason the Board is of the opinion the current value of the Company is substantially undervalued and shareholders will be eventually rewarded with a re-rating as our profile and presence in the seaborne coking coal market grows.

As a junior resource company, high quality growth is critical to shareholder returns and Management has been mandated to review a number of new initiatives including an extension of our resource into adjacent properties as well as vertical integration into higher value coking coal activities. The Board expects to update shareholders further during Q4 2013 on those initiatives and transactions under review.

I would like to close by commending our new management during a successful first half year and look forward to sustaining this level of performance as we move in to full scale production. In addition, I would like to thank our shareholders and local stakeholders for their continued support and I look forward to providing further news on our development into a profitable Mozambican coking coal producer in due course.

Possibly a good entry level at around 2.30p as this can move up to 6p quite quickly when the market allows.

Brokers have a 9p target on this at present.

Was looking for an entry point again, but last week news of convertible issued last week had a bad taste for the share price and now lingering at 1.40p with heavy volume
will have to wait as it settles as days goes by.


With compliments from ..... suki the dog ... at III for below comment and resume of things >>>>>>>>>>>>

The company updated us on their new operational strategy following the funding announcement on Friday.
• Against a weaker backdrop in coking coal prices, the company plan to keep the current plant facility operating minimally till the expansions are in place.
• It will take 8 months to complete the expansion and 4 months to ramp up.
• The current cash burn rate is $1.5m/month.
• US$13m to be used for the expansion against a previous estimate of $10m reflecting the investment in power required to counter current power outages.
• $10.1m is a provision to support company in working capital requirements during the construction and ramp up phase.
• The targeted coking coal production at full ramp up at the end of 2014 of 540,000t should coincide with availability of rail capacity of 0.5 mtpa.
• The thermal coal will continue to be sold at the mine gate.
• Current thermal coal sales at the mine gate are achieving $50/t against production cost of $30/t.
• They are currently selling around 3,000t of thermal coal at mine gate which should generate cash flows of around $60,000/month.
• Small tonnages are being sold to a wide group of buyers and sales are done on a cash basis.
• The hard coking coal price is expected to be produced at an FOB price of $105/t.
• The company expect to deliver these costs as strip ratio at the mine is 0.5 resulting in mining and processing cost of $17/t with G&A bringing this up to $30/t.
• Logistics and other costs bring the total FOB cost/tonne of $105/t – port costs are currently high at $20/t.
• This compares with BMA mine site cash costs of around $75/t and total unit cash costs of $150/t (this includes all cost including maintenance capex).
• Port costs are expected to be brought down by their JV with Jindal on port sidings.
• The coking coal price achieved is at a $10/t discount to the export price.
• The offtake agreement with Global Coke is for 600.000 t per year so they can take the full production being targeted.
• Phase 2C expansion should enable them to achieve an uplift in coking coal yields from 15% to 20-21%.
• The convertible issued to Latitude will have the coupon rolled up for the first year.
• The company are offering the convertible to other shareholders.


Conclusion: The new funding to implement their expansion plans is needed as the company are expected to run their current operations at a minimal level till expansion plans are put into place requiring a greater working capital element. This is potentially a disappointment as the market had expected the company to generate revenues and cash having put into place the first part of their expansion.
The sale of coal at the mine gate should generate cash flow of around $60,000 a month offsetting some of the current cash burn of $1.5m a month.

expansion plans will enable the company to improve yields on the coking coal side and achieve first quartile operating costs with low strip ratios of 0.5. The targeted production of 540 kt of coking coal by the end of 2014 should also co-incide with availability of their rail allocation of 0.5 mtpa.

The shares are unlikely to do very much against this backdrop till plans are successfully implemented.

JKX recently fell from 78p down to 48p on news of a fundraising and has since bounced back up again. I can see a similar thing happening with BHR and a lot of stop losses must have been triggered today as well etc.

The spike down to 1.04p on Monday seems to point to a possible bottom target on this one, although indicators show its looking very oversold at present, but with the moving averages all negative for now.

And goes to show a piece of good or bad news will blow a AIM stock chart away.

Once the storm pass the good weather returns

over here the sells have slow down and for the last couple days buyers were outplacing the sells and share price was slowly bouncing, today is showing signs of wantig to make a big impact

The 5 days chart shows clearly the flat bottom of the last couple days and now rising
much faster

British B's updated BHR to a BUY CONFIRMED! signal and they stated 'Be part of the BUYING Boost' !!!

BHR looking very oversold on the daily chart, the business was valued at 2.6p prior to the recent fundraising etc. So this stock will probably double your money at some point on the share price recovering from here.

Z.Mir's TradersO chart showing a minimum price target of 1.5p! within the next 2-3 weeks!!

BritishB's also have a buy signal now showing for BHR!!

You forgot to say that yesterday's closing candlestick created a BULLISH HARAMI CROSS a reversal pattern that with volume today was right for this morning bounce.

I am in again from today

0.98p +0.17p

Rail Logistics Update
Beacon Hill Resources plc, the AIM and ASX listed coal producer, is pleased to announce an update on rail logistics at its flagship asset, the Minas Moatize Coal Mine in Tete, Mozambique.

-- Arrival of maiden test train to trial the Tete coal loading facility

-- Five new 2,240 kW diesel locomotives on track to be completed by the end of November 2013 at RRLGrindrod's workshop -- 90 Transnet Engineering rail wagons expected to arrive by the end of January 2014 in the port of Beira, Mozambique

-- Beira off-loading facility pre-conditions complete with final Simplified Environmental Report to be submitted by the end of November 2013
Rowan Karstel, Chief Executive Officer of Beacon Hill commented:

"We are very pleased with the strong progress made towards final commissioning of our rail logistics solution in Tete and look forward to the positive cost implications incurred following completion. Our current focus for Minas Moatize is to build the mine to become a Tier 1 coking coal asset and this will represent an important milestone towards this goal. We look forward to updating the market regarding both our logistics and wash plant upgrades in the coming months."

Mac van der Merwe, Rail Operations Manager commented:
"The first test train has now arrived into the newly built Tete siding to undertake a test loading of coal. The locomotives carried 42 rail wagons and loaded 2,600 tonnes of coal under test conditions. This trial exercise was carried out in conjunction with our JV Partner JPSL. This commissioning is a major milestone for the Company whilst we wait for first delivery of our own rolling stock which is due at the end of this month. Beacon Hill's train drivers are now fully accredited to operate in Mozambique and are on the ground and ready to begin our logistics operations for the Company and third parties."
Tete loading facility (Carbonoc) Update

Beacon Hill, in conjunction with JPSL, its JV partner in the Tete loading facility, has undertaken its first test of the first train into the new purpose built facility. The diesel locomotive arrived to collect 2,600 tonnes of coal and loaded the maiden cargo from the facility. Work on the site is continuing with the aim to have a fully operational facility in place by the end of Q1 2014. The facility has been under development during 2013 and covers a total stockpile area of 7 hectares for a capital expenditure of circa US$6 million. The facility has two rail lines and dedicated stockpile areas for Beacon Hill and JPSL.

Beira off-loading facility (Warehouse No 4) Update
The Company has notified Portos e Caminhos de Mocambique ('CFM') that all permitting requirements for the development of the facility have been completed and the remaining Simplified Environment Report will be completed by the end of November 2013. Thereafter the Company intends to commence construction activity on the site.

Rolling Stock Inspections
The Company has recently visited both the RRLGrindrod and the Transnet Engineering workshops to inspect the new rolling stock being manufactured. The locomotives are expected to be delivered at the end of November 2013. The final installation of on-board computers will allow the fleet to go immediately on rail and communicate with the train operations centre in Beira. The train drivers, crews and support personnel required for the running of the trains have been trained by RRLGrindrod and completed the CFM accreditation process during August 2013.

Well, I'm in as of a couple of days ago with a small purchase... must be the bottom of the downside now and after the good news now looking for a recovery in the sp.

How much coal per month is currently being sold? Does anyone know?