Company has three business divisions: Mining, Transport and Water, being the first of them the most important. Antofagasta plc is one of the largest international copper producing companies in the industry. Its activities are mainly concentrated in Chile where it owns and operates three copper mines, Los Pelambres, El Tesoro and Michilla, with a total production of 498 thousand tonnes in 2004, at an average cash cost of 24.4 c/lb. The Groups mining division, Antofagasta Minerals, is also actively involved in exploration particularly in Chile and Peru. The transport division operates an extensive rail network servicing the important mining region of northern Chile, which is centred on the port of Antofagasta. The water division operates a concession for the distribution of water in this region.

SALES PER ACTIVITY (Data as of 31/12/2005)

Copper mining: 94%
Rail transport:   4%
Water:             2%

It's time to sell the copper miners now. ANTO 771p now.

h98
you have been very quiet lately,i hope you are well.
personally i would never bet against you when you are on the short side..halloween?
glad i dont hold these.
regards
jkd

Hi jkd,
I am just back from a long holiday. Certainly nice 2 hear from u.
Best regards,
h98

u still alive, hyleo.......id have thought u would have flung yourself off a bridge or high rise building by now.

never mind, why dont you sell yourself........or how about your shorts.....maybe they are worthless now as burnt long time ago

is ur holiday in a caravan ie. your new home

I wonder where marni is nowadays, hope he hasn't done what he said he wished me to do as above.

Anyway I think ANTO is good to short now as copper price has gone down.

h98
you got it wrong me thinks, marni is/was a she. by his own admission. maybe i just got confused? no doubt "they " would point out that at 771 in Nov we got it totally wrong and they would be right to do so.
regards
jkd

Thanks, jkd for pointing out. No wonder she was so bitter.
Well, I thought not many men would say such thing.

Hell has no fury like a woman scorned

Another 24 hour trade with CFD's

Bought 6000 CFD ANTO at 853 yesterday 15.30 p.m.
Sold 6000 at 903.50 today 10.20 a.m.

Add CFDADN and CFDANTO Good day today - not always so lucky thou.

Drinks are on me Stan

i know i need a (quality!) base metal miner in my portfolio, but have been undecided which is the best bet

any thoughts other than ANTO (blue)? ..... RIO (red)? ...... KAZ a vile performer - green)? ...... VED (black)?

I am mostly a trader not a long term investor.

Sometimes I need to wait a few weeks for the right prices, when particular shares
seem cheap, but I have been caught out with a falling knife a few times.

KAZ - I know you say other than, but I think once ENRC take over is out of the way and KAZ is paid about $850m in cash and then many of its own shares returned to it, then it would be in a great position ( cash rich and plenty of its own shares to either resell or cancel etc ) to move forward in its own right rather than being tied into ENRC's lack of progress. I like KAZ and have 20,000, admittedly at 335p.

FXPO - Iron ore in Europe, sells mostly as pellets within Europe but also to China etc. They do not need to move iron ore from miles away - Mocambique etc.
Problem seems that the shares are tightly held by directors, thus share price is volatile, but I think well worth buying if you can get them at about 175p or less.

I only follow a few miners - I also think Vedanta ( ? Aluminium ) is now sorting itself out and could be a buy at about 1150 - I shall probably wait now a few days to see if market settles back.

If our favourite AFN drops back I will probably buy that again, 142 / 139 p ??.

Nice in Benidorm today - sunny but cool, and I am feeling better than lately
Bob

i'm sure you don't mean AFN, so what should it be?
anyhow, thanks for your guidance and shall investigate further

Sorry got EPIC wrong - I mean Afren is it AFR ?

ah! i like them a lot and have held them for a good while now - and of course showing a healthy profit

"rekirkham - 19 Sep 2013 10:31 - 43 of 48, How kind RK... I accept -):

Wish I could float a suggestion Cynic as I used to like this sector, but have cooled on it over the last 6 months. I still look at Ved. though mainly because they seem to be quite diversified.

i too have avoided the sector because when everything was in the doldrums, base commodities suffered badly ....... however, we're fast emerging from those gloomy days and this will be a prime sector to benefit

one should probably watch the price of nickel too as that is a key and expensive component of stainless

Thanks, worth knowing, I seem to remember VED has a smelter but not sure about the nickel. I must revisit the sector for the reasons you give.

just looked at Kitco nickel charts ..... some very conflicting info there :-(

Have my chart set on gold at Kitco, but christ knows where that's going!

Anyone know the divi details? I have 1.92 to 7.08%.

Ex-divi 23rd April 2014 (8.61¢)