Category: Share Purchases

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 [...]

The remodelling of our portfolio took another small step last Thursday with the purchase of 137,204 shares of Edenville Energy at .88 pence a share. Edenville you say, who are they and what do they do? This from the Edenville Energy website: Edenville Energy PLC is the holding company of a mineral exploration and development [...]

The fundamental change in our portfolio mix continues. With the recent sale of all our Renesola, Clipper Windpower and OPG Power Ventures holdings and what for us is a fairly heavy (in terms of portfolio percentage) investment in Berkeley Mineral Resources, we’ve taken a leap into more speculative mineral waters. Ouch! Sorry, do pardon the [...]

When you’re on a good thing… Following on from last Monday’s purchase of 21,712 shares of Berkeley Mineral Resources (BMR.L) at a little over 4.53 pence, we’ve gone back for more, stocking up with a further 23,777 shares at 6.23 pence last Friday and again this Monday with another 18,646 shares at 5.28 pence. To [...]


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