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Based on a fair bit of visitor feedback, I began to pen a piece on how I go about creating a pool of potential shares to invest in. Nothing to do with the actual final homework and selection process, just the first stage where I add to a list of potentials. Initially, it was going [...]

The last of our November purchases was Pan Pacific Aggregates (PPA.L). We took up 446,161 shares (sounds impressive huh! I’d probably go with diluted) at 0.28 pence a share for a total outlay of £1,249.25. The plan here is to wait for these bad boys to hit £2.50 each and we’ve made our million and [...]

Following a tip from a reader a couple of weeks back, we took a closer look at Dominion Petroleum – an independent energy company focused on exploring for new oil and gas reserves in East and Central Africa. Currently Dominion are active in offshore Tanzania and the Lake Edward Basin in and around the Uganda, [...]

Earlier this month we added Atlantic Coal (ATC.L) to our portfolio purchasing 402,226 shares at .41 pence a share for a total outlay of £1,649.13. To quote from the tin, Atlantic Coal are: a coal production and processing company, focussed predominantly on open cast mining and the processing of high-grade, low emission coal. Its primary [...]

Not quite the volatility this week as in the past few weeks but Berkeley Mineral Resources (BMR.L) is still attracting a lot of investor attention following on from Friday’s interims (pdf file) and ahead of the much-anticipated confirmation of their Kabwe acquisition. Berkeley Mineral Resources in the news Berkeley Mineral has funding for Kabwe acquisition [...]


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