I don't believe that the mentioned "African Gold Zimbabwe" is AFG, but the article does demonstrate rapid resurgence of E&P in Zimbabwe:

Mining Giants Plan Massive Diamond Prospecting

The Herald (Harare)

January 22, 2004
Posted to the web January 22, 2004

Harare

MINING giants, De Beers Zimbabwe Prospecting Limited and Circle Three Mining Corporation are proposing a massive diamond prospecting project that will see the two companies prospecting for the mineral in Gweru, Harare, Bulawayo and Kadoma mining districts.

The two mining companies intend to prospect for diamond in areas covering a total of 448 180 hectares.


Another company, African Gold Zimbabwe, has also undertaken to prospect for gold on two areas measuring 120 550 hectares within the Harare and Gweru mining districts.

De Beers Zimbabwe Prospecting Limited, Circle Three Mining Corporation and African Gold Zimbabwe have applied to the Mining Affairs Board for an exclusive prospecting order for 12 areas under the four mining districts.

In the latest issue of the Government gazette, the Mining Affairs Board said De Beers, Circle Three Mining and African Gold Zimbabwe intend to prospect for diamonds and gold over an area of approximately 568 730 hectares from the three areas.

"The applicants intend to prospect for diamond within the areas, which have been reserved against prospecting pending determination of this application.

"Prospecting authority is sought upon registered base mineral blocks within the reservation," read part of the notice.

One of the two diamond prospecting projects to be undertaken by Circle Three Mining measures 65 000 hectares and is bounded by a line commencing on the Zimbabwe-Zambia border approximating five kilometres.

All areas, which have been earmarked for prospecting are within the 15 000 hectares and 65 000 hectares range and are mostly in the traditional mineral bearing areas of the country.

The proposal to prospect for diamond in the country comes at a time when the US$41 million Murowa Diamond Mine has started to operate following the successful relocation of 141 families which were on the mining site.

Mining is one of the sectors which has been depressed over the last five years but some of the players in the industry have said investors should look at non-traditional minerals.

An example that is often given is that of platinum, which is fast becoming the world's most lucrative mineral.

The mining of diamond in Zimbabwe is also fast gaining pace and it is expected that some of the mining projects would create a lot of employment.

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Hi ateeq, patience required for a few more days. MMs trying to trigger stop losses by the looks of it.

Incredibly cheap price now at 7.5-8.5 pence. I think the good news may be forthcoming this afternoon judging by how deperate the MMs seems to be to try and get some stock back.

THANKS SUE,ITS NICE OF YOU TO GIVE THIS FEED BACK SO QUICKLY,AND I HOPE THATS THE CASE,ANY WAY GOOG LUCK TO ALL AFG HOLDERS.

Slightly better now, 8.0-9.5 pence, all buys coming through.

Price 8.5-9.5 pence, a lot delayed buys will be coming through later.

Already hold shares in AFG, but consodering wacking down some more cash as the shares are so cheap!!!!!!!!!!! Any body eles buying today?????

Some very good buys have come through including a 100,000 buy at 9 pence. In addition, 10*50,000 or around buys have been reported in the last 2 1/2 hours.

3*50K block buys have been reported around 9.5 pence. Most of them have appeared in the sell column including the 80,000 buy around 8.44 pence.

More good buys reported in the last few minutes.

Price 8.5-10.0 pence now, unchanged for the day. Strong buy signal.

Delayed buy reported for 131,000 shares at 9.12 pence.

SueHelen

I would not wish to detract from your enthusiasm for this share but I would like to point out for the benefit of anyone who is not conversant with TA that your previous observations that a MACD crossover was near to imminent, thus indicating a possible change of direction could be expected, never was nor is a near likelyhood. Indeed the histogram divergence appears now to be widening in a bearish way which could increase the time for when a bullish MACD crossover would occur, even so it would still be in the sub '0' area of the indicator and a bullish move would be best confirmed by a move through the 'O' line.
I am sure it would be less confusing to the thread readers if you would adhere to your factual observations and not to introducing speculative and ill founded TA statements.

optomistic

Suehelen
I don't know why you are still so optimistic about this share. I have been waiting for the share to bounce back for a month already and it seems to go worse and worse. I think the share has been over valued due to some good news. But now it comes back to its real value as it is still a very risky company which remains very fragile. Personnaly I have got no reasons to believe in this share anymore. Please has anyone got some good reasons to hold this share ?

Well is defo overvalued. however this is a growth stock and very risky since all they have is land to be tested and it may take several yrs for gold to be extracted(if any economically viable) I will defo hold on to this till at least some of the drilling results. If the drilling results for their acquisitions is very good, the shares will surged pass 20p. With shares like this most of the time sometimes is better to travel than to arrive.

How this share will shape up this week any one,any views?

Hi guys,

Price rose to 9.5-10.5 pence in the opening minutes before settling back at 8.5-10.0 pence. Further good news is very much forthcoming. Still a very strong buy.

News on atleast one more operation is coming very soon seb'.

Real spread at the moment is 8.5-9.25 pence, can buy well inside the offer price of 10 pence.

Reply from an email sent to African Gold:

"The next news will relate to the completion of our properties in West
Africa and other potential acquisitions."

The price has closed above the support level of 9 pence for the last three days at a price of 9.25 pence.

The bubble has truly burst as far as African Diamonds is concerned. We will hopefully see the same sky high rise here if not more soon. In addition may see some investors switching from AFD into AFG now with all the imminent good newsflow to come.