The Sunday Telegraph love this one and last week they gave a positive update.

I don't know whether to buy, but the spread has narrowed and the market capital is tiny so it could jump!

I'm dancing in the dfark with this one but I'd appreciate your thoughts?

50p or 5p what will it be?

I brought some in May 2003 and I still think they are a buy

Hopefully!

Have they all forgotten about this little gem?

What does the trading statement mean?

An upturn today!

Should I buy more?

Come on!

This is odd only buys but price still down -Why?

Good update, more of a rise next Monday. A Sunday Tel favourite, any thoughts?

LONDON (AFX) - Tertiary Minerals PLC said its winter/spring drilling
programme at the Ahmavuoma project in northern Sweden has confirmed the
existence of a significant iron-oxide copper gold (IOCG) mineralised system.
IOCG style mineralisation encompasses some of the largest copper deposits in
the world.
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IOCG orebodies are typically large and represent one of the most widely sought style of deposits in the world today. A number of major mining companies, including Rio Tinto, Anglo American, BHP Billiton !!!!! and Phelps Dodge are actively exploring for such orebodies in Sweden, a country in which only two major IOCG deposits are in production. TYM could announce a fast track to production if they decide to license the new field to one of the bigger mining companies with production technology and investment clout to make this a huge profit generator. There is already a lot of interest in the find within the mining community and for example BHP want to expand this high margin leg. Any news would send the shares soaring and currently trading at 12 pence there can be little downside.

Trading at 11.75p despite recent positive news. The attached press release broke mid pm and may be picked up in the busines press tomorrow am...it's yet more very encouraging news. Also check out the TA trends on this stock - bullish buy indicators and bounce back predicted from the lower resistance points hit during the past 3 weeks. If it can make the news on this significant result maybe it can return to form - 15p in any case should be the right valuation:-

Tertiary Minerals PLC
17 June 2004



TERTIARY MINERALS PLC
17 June 2004


TERTIARY REPORTS HIGH-GRADE DRILL INTERSECTIONS FROM KAARESSELKA

Results Includes 4.90m Grading 11.0g/t Gold And 2.75m Grading 13.5g/t
Gold

Lampi Zone Enhanced By Intersection Of 10.30m Grading 3.9 G/t Gold From
Bedrock Surface

Tertiary Minerals plc ('the Company') is pleased to report a number of
high-grade gold intersections following the receipt of final assay results from
its first drilling programme at the Kaaresselka gold project in Finland.

Previous drilling at Kaaresselka by the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) was
reported to have intersected gold mineralisation in three separate zones -
Vanha, Tienvarsi and Lampi - within an area of 1.1km by 0.6km. Further
background details can be found in the Company's press release dated 3 November
2003 and in the 2003 Annual Report on the Company's website
(
www.tertiaryminerals.com
).

The recent programme comprised 10 diamond drill holes designed to evaluate the
controls and distribution of gold mineralisation in the three target zones. The
results of the first 3 holes were reported in the quarterly exploration report
released on 6 April 2004.

This release covers the results from the remaining 7 holes where assay results
have been delayed as a result of bottlenecks at the independent assay laboratory
caused by the global upturn in exploration activity.

Significant assay results are given in the accompanying table and include some
of the best results from Kaarasselka to-date. A plan illustrating the location
of the drill holes will be made available on the Company's website.

Hole 04KD005 is located in the SE extension of the Tienvarsi zone and
intersected 2.75m grading 13.5 g/t gold from 15.45m depth demonstrating that
mineralisation is open in this direction.

Hole 04KD007B, located towards the western end of the Vanha zone, intersected
4.90m thickness grading 11.0 g/t gold from 74.80m down-hole and was drilled to
test at depth the gold mineralisation intersected by GTK drill holes RC5 (3m
grading 7.2g/t gold) and R436 (1.4m grading 22 g/t gold) towards the western end
of the Vanha zone. This result is important as it suggests the potential for a
high-grade depth extension to the near surface mineralisation at this location.

Hole 04KD009 and 010 were drilled across the Lampi zone. Previous drilling by
GTK had returned a best result of 11.55m grading 1.32 g/t gold from 24.50m, but
failed to explain a strong geochemical anomaly. Drilling in a different
direction, to test an alternative interpretation of the strike direction of
mineralisation, was rewarded with an intersection in hole 04KD010 of 10.3m
grading 3.88 g/t gold from bedrock surface at a depth of 3.9m beneath the
glacial till. (This intersection comprises three composite samples with
individual samples now being re-analysed). The geometry of this zone, which is
not yet understood, can be investigated by trenching.

Hole 04KD004 is located 100m along strike from previously reported hole 04KD002
and the NW end of the Tienvarsi zone. A narrow, low-grade intersection was
returned (see table below) indicating that gold mineralisation, albeit weak, is
open in this direction.

The results from the Company's first drilling programme at Kaaresselka are
considered to be encouraging as they confirm that gold mineralisation is spread
over a wide area, with a number of high-grade intersections having been returned
both from surface in the weathered zone and in the fresh rock. The results have
also significantly upgraded the Lampi zone as a target for further drilling.

The Company is now carrying out further core sampling and plans additional core
logging and a detailed location survey for all old drill holes. This will enable
the planning of follow up drilling programmes aimed at resource delineation.


DRILLING RESULTS KAARESELKA Winter/Spring 2004

Hole Number From Drill Hole Gold Grade
(down hole depth) Intersection (grammes per tonne
(down hole width) -g/t - gold)
TIENVARSI ZONE

04KD004 56.05m 1.00m 1.00 g/t Au

04KD005 15.45m 2.75m 13.46 g/t Au
Including 16.10m 1.10m 29.20 g/t Au

VANHA ZONE

04KD007B 69.40m 1.00m 2.64 g/t Au

And 74.80m 4.90m 11.02 g/t Au
Including 74.80m 1.10m 39.30 g/t Au

And 94.20m 0.30m 1.07 g/t Au

LAMPI ZONE

04KD010 3.90m 10.30m 3.88 g/t Au

And 74.00m 0.70m 3.62 g/t Au

All reported assays made by independent laboratory ALS Chemex by method Au-AA26
(50g Fire Assay)



For further information please contact:

Patrick Cheetham, Executive Chairman, Tertiary Minerals plc. Tel: 01625-626203
Ron Marshman/John Greenhalgh, City of London PR Limited. Tel: 020-7628-5518



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

We've moved forward -anything left?

I still hold to my earlier comment and good to see some realty checks coming back in recent days. Recent move just shows the importance of positive news for this stock - the underlying health is good and interims will be positive so I'd hold on and expect some further upward movement this month.

Positive news on several fronts...the Finnish diamond drilling report has been eagerly awaited for some time..looks like we'll know soon..a positive report will see TYM waken up and start moving again.. keep watching the trades closely this week...


LONDON (AFX) - Tertiary Minerals PLC said the newly revised mining laws in
Saudi Arabia, bringing regulations into line with international best-practice,
will simplify the retention of the group's Ghurayyah project and reduce the
company's holding costs in Saudi Arabia.
In its quarterly report for the three months to Sept 30 2004, Tertiary also
said its report on diamond potential of the new Finnish kimberlite cluster is
expected soon.
It also said drilling is to resume on all three mineralised zones at
Kaaresselka.
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For more information and to contact AFX: www.afxnews.com and
www.afxpress.com

i have been watching this one and like you feel it may be around the "bottom" price wise.Usual problem, we need regular news which is reasonably positive.It has after all languished of late

TERTIARY MINERALS PLC
1 November 2004

QUARTERLY REPORT ON EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2004

Report On Diamond Potential Of New Finnish Kimberlite Cluster Expected Soon

Second Mineralised Boulder Train With Visible Gold Located At Pitkajarvi

Drilling To Resume On All Three Mineralised Zones At Kaaresselka

Tantalum: Newly Introduced Saudi Mining Law Favours Explorers
_____________________________________________________________________

INTRODUCTION

This report gives details and results of exploration work carried out during the
quarter ended
30 September 2004 and up to the date of this report.

FINNISH DIAMOND PROJECT
Tertiary Minerals 100%

The Company has previously announced the discovery of three kimberlites in two
separate areas in Northern Finland.

In July, drilling at Kalettomanpuro identified two kimberlites and in August it
was reported that the first drill hole at Kattaisenvaara, some 20km away, had
also intersected kimberlite. Since then three further holes were attempted at
Kattaisenvaara. Only one successfully tested the kimberlite, the other two holes
being abandoned in deep overburden. The successful hole collared in kimberlite
at the same location as the first reported hole but was drilled in the opposite
direction proving the total width of the kimberlite in the plane of drilling to
be 48m. The kimberlite appears to have faulted contacts at both its northern and
southern margins and a well developed breccia at the southern margin. The strike
length of the kimberlite is not yet known.

Samples of the Kattaisenvaara kimberlite have been sent for microdiamond
analysis and indicator mineral extraction. Results are expected shortly.

Not all kimberlites in a given cluster contain diamonds, but the potential of a
cluster to host diamonds can be evaluated by detailed mineralogical studies of
the kimberlites in that cluster. The company has therefore commissioned GTK to
undertake mineralogical studies on the Kalletomanpuro and Kataisenvaara
kimberlites. The preliminary report will be delivered soon and is keenly
awaited. This will enable the company to evaluate diamond potential of the
numerous other kimberlite targets within its claim holdings.

GOLD PROJECTS

Kaaresselka Gold Project
Finland - Tertiary Minerals 100%

Following the receipt of encouraging results from the Company's first drill
programme earlier this year the Company has completed a drill-hole collar survey
to accurately locate all previous GTK drilling. This has enabled the compilation
of an accurate database for further drill planning.

A second drill program is scheduled to start in late November and will focus on
the Lampi zone where an intersection of 10.3m grading 3.88 g/t gold was made
from near surface, the central part of the Vanha zone high-grade gold
mineralisation and the SE extension of the Tienvarssi zone where gold
mineralisation remains open along strike.

Pitkajarvi Gold Project
Finland - Tertiary Minerals 100% (subject to 6% NPI royalty)

The acquisition of the Pitkajarvi high-grade gold prospect was announced in
August. The prospect was discovered in May this year when an independent
prospector discovered a train of boulders on the ground surface containing
visible native gold. The boulders occur in an area roughly 150m long by 70m wide
although the full extent of the boulder train is thought to be hidden beneath
surrounding marshland.

A preliminary field visit by Tertiary confirmed significant gold grades in
surface boulders of probable local origin. Visible free gold in hand-specimen
was seen to be associated with quartz veining, silicification and weak sulphide
mineralisation in a moderately altered granodiorite. Nine samples from different
mineralised boulders, up to 1m across, assayed up to 16.6 grammes per tonne gold
and averaged 8.5 grammes per tonne gold.

A subsequent field visit has resulted in the discovery of more mineralised
boulders at Pitkajarvi. In addition a second, previously documented, boulder
train some 2km NW of Pitkajarvi, at Tiaskuru, was relocated and a number of
boulders with visible gold and copper mineralisation were sampled. Assay results
are awaited.

An interpretation of available airborne geophysical data covering the Pitkajarvi
and Tiaskuru areas has identified a number of possible source areas for
the mineralised boulders. A ground geophysical survey has now started to
identify drilling targets.

BASE METAL PROJECTS

Djuragruvan Zinc-Silver Project
Sweden - Tertiary Minerals 100%

The Company has recently completed a drilling programme to test for zinc-silver
mineralisation at its Djuragruvan project in the Bergslagen district of
south-central Sweden

Three holes were drilled to target down-dip and along the strike extensions to
zinc-lead-silver mineralisation at the Gruvberget open-pit where, in 1989, a
small, privately-managed mining campaign produced 40,000t of custom-milling ore
grading 7% zinc-lead and 90g/t silver from a 30m deep open-pit. No significant
mineralisation was intersected.

A programme of trenching will take place in November to test an area to the
south of Gruvberget where Tertiary discovered a field of zinc and silver rich
boulders in an earlier exploration campaign.

Other Base-Metal Projects

No work was carried out on the Company's IOCG projects this last quarter.

A programme of trenching will start in two weeks time on the Vehkavaara
copper-gold project to investigate the source of base-of-till copper anomalies.

Further drilling is also planned for the winter of 2004/5 on the Ahmavuoma
copper-gold-cobalt project to follow up encouraging grades of mineralisation
intersected during the last drill programme.

TANTALUM PROJECTS

During the quarter the Company's Chairman attended the annual Tantalum & Niobium
International Study Centre (TIC) annual meeting.

A major focus for discussion was the current situation of the world's largest
tantalum producer Sons of Gwalia now in Voluntary Administration following its
failure to re-negotiate the terms of its gold division hedge commitments. The
possibility that there may be a change in control of the majority of the world's
tantalum production has thrown the spotlight onto alternative sources of supply
for tantalum, including the Company's world-class Ghurayyah tantalum project.

Ghurayyah - Tantalum
Saudi Arabia - Tertiary Minerals 100%

The long-awaited revision of the Mining Law in Saudi Arabia has now passed
through the Legislative Council and received Royal Assent. The purpose of the
new law is to update the Mining Code & Regulations in Saudi Arabia in line with
international best-practice and thereby make exploration in Saudi Arabia more
attractive to foreign investment.

The changes will simplify the retention of the Ghurayyah project and reduce the
Company's holding costs in Saudi Arabia.

During the Quarter the Company commissioned St. Barbara Consulting, to prepare a
proposal and obtain quotes for the metallurgical testwork component of the
Preliminary Feasibility Study.

Patrick Cheetham
Executive Chairman

For further information please contact:

Patrick Cheetham, Executive Chairman, Tertiary Minerals plc. Tel: 01625-626203
Ron Marshman/John Greenhalgh, City of London PR Limited. Tel: 020-7628-5518

Maps illustrating some of the features referred to in this report can be found
on the Company's website
www.tertiaryminerals.com

joe hargan thanks for post. Do you know when interims are due? with the small dip today is it a good time to get in?you have obviously been following for sometime and I was just a little surprised that from the positive news already announced this year that the price has not moved on?

Wifagg - interims already out and you can find them on the company website unders "company reports". In any case superseded by Thursday's announcement. Fully expect the sp to respond favourably once the significance of this for TYM becomes clearer and after the mm's have rebalanced their holdings ...reading through this latest RNS and having followed Tertiary's realtively cautious releases in the past, the excitement displyed here is unbridled...time for a serious top up at 10.75p!

November 4 , 2004

POSITIVE REPORT ON DIAMOND POTENTIAL OF NEWLY DISCOVERED KIMBERLITE CLUSTER

Study Confirms Kimberlites Tapped Diamond-Favourable Source Rocks
Claim Holding Extended To Total 30 Untested Targets
Possible Link To Russian/Arkhangelsk Diamond Fields
Tertiary Minerals plc (the Company) is pleased to report the positive findings of an independent study on the diamond potential of its Kuusamo kimberlite project in Northern Finland.

The report has been prepared by an international kimberlite specialist at the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK). The data in the report is based on relatively limited sampling of the three kimberlites discovered so far but supports the following important conclusions:

the geological conditions considered necessary for the occurrence of diamondiferous kimberlites occur in the Kuusamo area
the newly discovered kimberlites have tapped the diamond stability field of the earths mantle
the mantle tapped by the kimberlites contain both types of potential diamond-hosting mantle materials - harzburgite and eclogite and the mantle has not been affected by diamond destroying processes.
The statistics for kimberlite clusters show that any given cluster can contain a spectrum of kimberlite from those containing no microdiamonds to those with commercial diamond contents. Similarly individual kimberlite intrusions can be multi-phase, with some phases containing diamonds, others none.

The GTK report concludes that the lack of micro-diamonds in the kimberlite samples tested to date does not necessarily limit the prospectivity of any future kimberlite discoveries in the area.

The report also concludes that the results are .exciting in that it is likely that an entirely new cluster of kimberlites (the Kuusamo cluster) has been discovered and that typically there are 10-50 kimberlites in a cluster.

Tertiary considers that the results of the GTK study considerably enhance the potential of the untested targets in the Kuusamo area. The company has recently expanded its claims and claim reservations and now has a further 11 targets (total of 30) under claim or claim reservation in addition to Kalettomanpuro and Kattaisenvaara and existing data strongly suggest that more kimberlites will be discovered.

The report speculates that the Group I Kuusamo kimberlites may have a similar Devonian age to kimberlites found near Arkhangelsk in Russia, also in the Karelian Craton that includes the Lomonosov diamond project run by Alrosa and the highly diamondiferous Grib pipe.

This speculation is based principally on the position of the Kuusamo cluster on the southern margin of the same Devonian kimberlite and alkaline province that stretches for over a 1,000 km from Northern Finland through the diamond bearing regions of Kandalaksha, Terskii Bereg, Arkhangeslsk and Central Timan in NW Russia.

For further information please contact:
Patrick Cheetham, Executive Chairman, Tertiary Minerals plc. Tel: 01625-626203
Ron Marshman/John Greenhalgh, City of London PR Limited. Tel: 020-7628-5518

Technical Note (to accompany New Release of 4 November 2004)

The background to Tertiarys new discoveries is given in various news releases made since January this year. Three separate kimberlites have been intersected in drilling - two at the Kalettomanpuro (KP) site and one at Kattaisenvaara (KV) some 20km away.

It is accepted wisdom that many diamonds (a form of carbon) grew as crystals in the primeval earth as all harzburgitic diamonds are over 3 billion years old. Over time diamonds are only preserved where diamond is stable in preference to graphite (at high pressure and relatively low temperature) and this is usually beneath the old stable parts of the earths crust (cratons) where there is a thick, cool and stable lithospheric mantle keel the so-called diamond stability window. In such windows diamonds are found in mantle containing the rock types harzburgite or eclogite. For diamonds to be found at the surface kimberlitic magma must have risen to the surface through the diamond stability field of the mantle, on the way collecting pieces of the diamond host-rocks, harzburgite and eclogite. As the kimberlite magma ascends these pieces are disrupted, liberating the diamonds. The kimberlite magma must ascend rapidly enough so that the diamonds are preserved in otherwise unstable conditions in the crust.

Thus there are two main pre-requisites for the occurrence of diamonds at or near the earths surface:

Favourable mantle conditions for diamond preservation through geological time (a source of diamonds)
A transport medium (kimberlite magma) that taps the diamond stability field and both collects and preserves the diamonds.
As kimberlites are the main transport medium, a study of the mineralogy and mineral chemistry of kimberlites in any given cluster will provide information on whether that cluster has diamond potential.

The main technical findings of the GTK study are as follows:

The proximity of the Group I kimberlites to Devonian (365 Ma) alkaline complexes, in particular the Iivaara intrusion, raises the possibility that these new kimberlite discoveries are similar in age to those found near Arkhangelsk in Russia
The Group II Kalettomanpuro kimberlite has petrological similarities to the kimberlites in the 1200 Ma Kuhmo cluster, an area currently being explored by European Diamonds Plc and Karelian Diamond Resources Plc, some 150km to the south
The mineralogy and chemistry of phlogopite mica in the kimberlites confirms the original identification as hypabyssal Group I and Group II kimberlites (end member types of kimberlite, both can contain diamonds)
The Group II kimberlite from Kalettomapuro contains significant amounts of G10 (harzburgite) garnets and G9 (lherzolite) garnets and a high ratio of G10/G9. As harzburgite is known to be one of the main diamond source rocks, this indicates a high diamond potential
Compositional data and thermobarometry studies indicate that mantle-derived G10 garnets are derived almost exclusively from the diamond stable portion of the earths mantle
The Group I kimberlites contain both eclogite grains and eclogite xenoliths (eclogite in the mantle is the other main source for diamonds). So far, however, these are of relatively low sodium garnet type
Picroilmenite and pyrope garnet compositional data indicate that metasomatism has not significantly affected the mantle - another positive factor for diamond preservation
Chromites for the KV Group 1 kimberlite plot in compositional fields that indicate shallow sampling
Group 1 kimberlites so far examined show evidence of fractionation implying slower transport to the surface which, in the case of these kimberlites only, suggests any contained diamonds may have been resorbed

At 16:42 this evening, for those of us who like the idea of gold prospecting a little something to whet the appetite.. with this and the kimberlite fields currently due to report back we could be in for a very intersting and potentially very profitable couple of months....

Tertiary Minerals PLC
17 November 2004



TERTIARY MINERALS PLC

DRILLING RESUMES AT KAARESSELKA GOLD PROJECT
IN NORTHERN FINLAND

High Grade Targets At Vanha And Tienvarsi
Near Surface Target At Lampi
Results Expected Early In New Year
_____________________________________________________________________

Tertiary Minerals plc ('the Company') is pleased to announce that a further
drilling programme has now started at its Kaaresselka gold project in northern
Finland where three zones of mineralisation have been identified by previous
drilling in an area 1.1km by 0.6km. This earlier drilling returned a number of
high-grade intersections from both the near-surface weathered zone and the
underlying fresh rock and confirmed that gold mineralisation is distributed over
a wide area.

The new programme will concentrate on the Vanha zone to test for extensions to
high-grade mineralisation encountered in hole 04KD007B reported by the Company
earlier this year (4.90m thickness grading 11.0 grammes/tonne ('g/t') from
74.80m down-hole). Previous drilling results from this zone include 3m grading
7.2g/t gold in hole RC5 and 1.4m grading 22g/t gold in hole R436, both drilled
by the Geological Survey of Finland.

Further drilling will also test for extensions to gold mineralisation
encountered at the south-east end of the Tienvarsi zone where it is open along
strike from Tertiary's drill-hole 04KD005 which intersected 2.75m grading
13.5g/t gold from 15.45m depth.

In addition, trenching and possible follow-up drilling is planned to evaluate
the Lampi zone where the Company has reported an intersection of 10.3m grading
3.88g/t gold near surface but where the geometry of the mineralisation needs
further investigation.

Drilling will continue into mid-December with results expected in January 2005.

For further information please contact:

Patrick Cheetham, Executive Chairman, Tertiary Minerals plc. Tel: +44 (0)1625
626203
Ron Marshman/John Greenhalgh, City of London PR Limited. Tel: +44 (0)207 628
5518

why are they shaking the price ? 900 shares traded today and they knock 5% of the value they have done similarly over last three weeks on just about negligible trading they have taken out about 20% now?

Further drift downwards on a 50/50/ buys/sells? This fundamentally effects the anyones investment valuation and I suspect would trip a lot of sell thresholds.So we have low level of trades (buys and sells) price moved down 20+%? Beats me

I think the mms are trying to stimulate some interest as there has been practically no trading for several weeks in TYM