Ballarat Goldfields is an Australian gold explorer and developer, with a strong
portfolio of projects primarily focused on the highly prospective Ballarat gold
province in Victoria.

Situated in one of the most famous historical gold mining regions of Australia,
Ballarat produced over 12 million ounces before it's premature closure, around
the time of the first world war.

In 2004, for the first time following discovery in the 1850's, the leases over
the entire Ballarat field were consolidated under the sole ownership of BGF.
This has resulted in the company constructing a comprehensive geological model
of the entire field, demonstrating what many had suspected, that Ballarat had
massive unexplored prospectivity.

BGF completed a pre-feasibility study in 2004 which proposed an initial
underground mine at Ballarat East, with twin access declines servicing the
haulage and ventilation. The mine, based on BGF's geological model, has a life of 21 years, and would achieve an average production rate of approximately
200,000 ounces of gold per annum.

Website For Own Research
http://www.ballarat-goldfields.com.au

Top 20 Ordinary Shareholders Hold 69.66% of Issued Capital: 5th July 2006

Diggers & Dealers - Investor Presentation ASX and Media Release: 9th August 2006

Ballarat-Goldfields Annual Report2006

Ballarat East Revised Development Strategy ASX and Media Release: 7th September 2006

RobAlex.

I'm also find after 9am can be a great time to buy, gives the share price an hour to settle down into the direction it will most probably be going.

KD.

Yet another fall today, total gain since buying and starting this thread +22.27%.... Low volumes today... This is the kick back to the recent rise and sp should now show stability.

I must mention I am somewhat annoyed with myself today for selling ROC just before xmas for around a 100p.... Just seen the 135p current price bad call, only made around 10% on the share. Oh well win some lose some I suppose.

RobAlex - your last post mentions you welcome my advice, I must stress that its a bad idea to trust anyone you meet on BB's... Theres plenty of people out there that will ramp up a share and whilst telling others to buy they are secretly selling. Trust no-one is my advice and check for yourself so called facts that people post.

Possible new equity buy WTV - World Television Group [close today 0.83] - Market Cap 6.29m

All views welcome.

SP over past year has taken quite a knock, however I believe 2006 will be profitable.

For Immediate Release 16 January 2006

World Television Group Plc
("World Television" or "the Company")

Contract Win

World Television, the international televisual communications company, is
pleased to announce the award of a new 3-year contract by the European Space
Agency ("ESA"), won in a competitive tender.

For Immediate Release 30 December 2005

World Television Group Plc
("World Television" or "the Company")

World Television agrees to sell Foroso

World Television, the international televisual communications company, today
announces that it has agreed to dispose of the Company's webconferencing
subsidiary Foroso Communications GmbH ("Foroso").

Following a detailed strategic review of the business, the Directors of World
Television have concluded that Foroso and its web conferencing products are not
a core part of the group's strategy going forwards, due in the main to the
increasing commoditisation of these services, and are therefore pleased to reach
an agreement with members of the existing management team of Foroso. Foroso's
Meeting Centre and Training Centre will continue to operate as normal and
without interruption.

Four of the original founders of Foroso (Peter Pock, Elmar Merget, Kristof
Nast-Kolb and Ingrid Buchenberger) will take ownership of the company from 1
January 2006. World Television will receive a 20% share of revenues in 2006 and
2007. World Television will also receive all of the proceeds of any sale of the
business before 30 June 2006, up to a maximum of 680,000, and 20% of any
subsequent sale until 31 December 2015.

For Immediate Release 28 October 2005

World Television Group Plc
("World Television" or "the Group")

World Television Launches Expanded British Satellite News Service

World Television, the corporate communications, news production, webcasting and
event management company, is pleased to announce the launch of a new expanded
British Satellite News (BSN) service following the renewal of its contract with
the UK Government's Foreign & Commonwealth office (FCO).

The contract, worth approximately 1.5m p.a., will run for three years from
October 2005 with a further two year extension option period.

For Immediate Release 17 October 2005

World Television Group Plc
("World Television" or "the Group")

World Television wins Production Company of the Year award for the second year
running

World Television, the corporate communications, news production and event
management company is delighted to announce that it has won Production Company
of the Year 2005 at the prestigious AV Business and Industry Awards in London.
World Television won the same award in 2004.

Taken from last interims

Financial Highlights

* Turnover for the first 6 months 5.1 million
* Underlying turnover increased by 7% (386k)
* 1.3 million of annualised cost savings now implemented (400k higher than
originally announced)
* Tight cost controls now yielding benefit to the Group
* EBITDA loss, pre exceptionals, reduced substantially to 6k loss (2004 - 256k
loss) which reflects an underlying performance of EBITDA profitability


Operational Highlights


* Successfully won British Satellite News (BSN) contract, at increased value with
the UK Government Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* Other new business wins include - BAA, 02 and Microsoft
* Disposal of loss making subsidiary Kamera completed in March 2005, into special
purpose vehicle (SPV) and will accrete value over next 3 years
* Announced today - appointment of Evelyn Kimber as the new Chief Financial
Officer

explosive,
it is your opinion I listen to. I always follow my own advice whether it be good or bad. :)

explosive - what do you think about Herencia (HER)? silver mining in Chile - The graph looks set to do another Ballarat.

veludo - Very good timing your post above, had just logged on tonight and am looking for another mining investment to get into. I'll check it out and come back to you...

veludo - HER is a fair few years behind Ballarat, there won't be any money in this for some time so all the initial costs of setup and risk are there. I prefer miners that are very close to commissioning maybe upto 12 months before hand. Silver however is good to be in as price on the market is increasing. So a not at the moment for me.

Another day another fall total gain now +20.66%

are you still feeling confident about these shares? in @18.25p

Robert, although it's quite dull really, the best method for long-term gains is holding onto certain shares for years. Sometimes you get lucky by being in a share that just goes up and up relentlessly. The really difficult part is NOT selling out when you have a big gain that you're scared of losing. The other side to that of course is to never become too attached to any one share. Contradictory advice in one paragraph........ and that's the puzzle!
My only basic advice for holding onto what you've already got is; if you have several shares that look like they're going downhill, get rid of all of them. Most of them will continue to go downhill and that's what drags down your entire portfolio.

To illustrate the point, I've been in and out of MER for years making tidy sums along the way. But if I'd simply held I'd have made a lot more.
Contrast that with buying and holding JKX at 24.8p.

Oh, and I would suggest you take about 2 years to work out who talks sense on these boards, and trust no one on here in the meantime!!!

i am holding these as long term [only got a few at the mo but may top up later].
Anyone, any thoughts as to the current spate of selling? just curious. ran out of long term fund money so cant take advantage of this lull. typical of my timing!!

anyone suggest a reason for the sp increase when only trade today so far a sell?

explosive, are you still a believer in this share? you dont seem to comment any more now the sp digging into yr profits.

Hi all, yes still in and sorry for no comments I got back into Gatwick at 1:30 this morning from holiday.... I see the current sp has fallen to 17.5, theres no real reason for this except the interims could have been a little better. Anyway am still up some 12% on this one and can only see the recent fall as a blip. Good price to buy into actuly and I'll have to see if I can get some more funds.

Beasties - agree with what you say about trusting people. Not so sure your illustration with MER on falling shares however is a good point. Sometimes a share falls for absolutely no reason at all, it doesn't mean it should be sold.

By the way you can also subscribe for newsletters free of charge on the below link.

http://www.ballarat-goldfields.com.au/newsletter/subscribe.cfm

hope you had a good holiday. always the sp's fall when portfolio full with no spare cash and other shares are a hold for the time being.

Very true, the sp's falling further too..... Mmmm now I wonder if a few '04 big players have decided to take their profits and move on....

Some interesting news articles....

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=aE6XWFUz6R8I&refer=australia

Australia May Overtake S. Africa in Gold Output, Surbiton Says

http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/states-goldfields-on-comeback-trail/2006/03/05/1141493548995.html

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18567128%255E643,00.html

Good article below for anyone concerned about gold prices v's the strength of the ozzie $.......

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18638499%255E664,00.html

Well looks like were in a slump, I have no doubt this will recover along with the exchange. Current gain to date 9.4%

Some recovery it would seam, whos holding shares in BGF anyway??