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Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending Jan 25

By Darren Atwater | Saturday 25 January 2025


 


Yet again, Nigel Somerville is the most read non-Tom article, at number 1 or number 8 including Bearcasts for The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Retakes $2,700 (Just).

The most-read ShareProphets articles this week were:

  1. The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Retakes $2,700 (Just)
    Gold closed the week at $2,702 – back above $2,700 and scraping out of nomansland at last to the positive side, compared to last week’s $2,690. Good news (for Goldbugs) – and even more so for UK Goldbugs as it hit another new all-time high, closing at £2,230. Gold stocks also had a good week, if somewhat more muted than the metal, as can be seen on the chart of Gold against the mining ETFs GDX (majors), GDXJ (juniors) and GOEX (explorers).

  2. Gold Up Again, Ariana Down Again – Is Mr Market Mad?
    Students of Benjamin Graham – author of The Intelligent Investor and teacher of Warren Buffett – will, of course, know that Mr Market is indeed mad, wavering from depression at one moment to, in the words of Alan Greenspan, “irrational exuberance”. And that brings me to Gold and AIM-listed Ariana Resources (AAU). One is going up, the other – which produces the stuff – is heading south.

  3. Andrew Neil nails it: why US business will thrive under Trump and the EU and UK are doomed

  4. Ariana – Turkey News, General (Selective) Update, Gold North….Shares Down!
    AIM-listed Ariana Resources (AAU) served up a production results update this morning, along with comments over its coming mine at Tavsan, Dokwe and so on. The update reads just fine, but there’s an elephant in the room….or two!

  5. BREAKING: RegTech Open Project: now only 1 rat left and it’s Zamboni
    At Companies House Vineeta Manchanda-Singh, the final independent Director of Regtech Open (RTOP) has now terminated her Directorship with effect from 13 January 2025 leaving Alessandro Zamboni as the sole Director. So what if this is against the law, laws are for little people aren’t they Zamboni?

  6. Sanderson Design – not only expectations of an improved trading environment “not been realised”, but also “recent worsening of trading conditions”!
    Most recently on interior design and furnishings group Sanderson Design (SDG), in October I wrote having been an AIM Awards 2024 nominee, just days later results statement disappointment (natch!), concluding, although the shares then heading towards four year lows below 65p, that the outlook suggested to continue to avoid. The shares most recently closed at 54p and what of now a “Trading Update”?

  7. Visual Aid: How BRICS Stacks Up Against the G7 Economies
    The BRICS sphere is growing, adding ive new members and eight new “partner” countries in the last year. How does this new emerging geopolitical block compare to the current leaders in economic and political power? This chart shows how BRICS stacks up against the the G7 by tracking the combined share of the world economy of each block in 2025.

  8. The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #277
    It's time for the ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz. There are no prizes!  Remember, no Googling!

  9. Hero of the day (again): Wetherspoon’s Tim Martin blasts out of touch no beer Kier
    The great Tim Martin has served up a trading statement for JD Wetherspoon (JDW) which is pretty creditable given the damage that Rachel from Accounts is doing to the economy. Apparently, the chancellor told assembled suits in Davos yesterday that she was committed to lower taxes and cutting regulation. You could have fooled me. But the Spoons boss saves his customary vitriol for the dear leader, Two Tier Keir.

  10. Amaroq Minerals – new licence awarded, surely non-gold assets now bulked up enough for spin off? Still a winning share tip Buy
    Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ) has announced that its 50% owned Gardaq JV which focusses on non-gold targets, mainly copper and rare earths, in Greenland has been awarded another license: the Johan Dahl Land licence (MEL 2025-17), expanding its interest in the South Greenland copper belt.

The most listened-to Bearcasts this week were:

  1. Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: tip of Year withdrawn as I was treated like an effing idiot last nightI am not saying sell and the bloke who treated me like a complete idiot is someone I like and trust. I may be an idiot but with almost 40 years experience in finance I don't like being treated like one. The stock is Eco Buildings (ECOB)

  2. Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: the train loo had pooh floating on the sodden floor, Optibiotix and ArianaI discuss a journey home from Heathrow that was expensive, slow and unpleasant, what a country the UK has become. Then to Optibiotix (OPTI) and a statement that I don't give a FF about and Ariana (AAU) where I want a statement to give a FF about.

  3. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Rosenblatts really is a £43m AIM scandal, yes yet another oneIn today's bearcast I discuss Greatland Gold (GGP), Bluebird Mining Ventures (BMV), Georgina Energy (GEX), RBG (RBGP), formerly Rosenblatts, Trainline (TRN) and Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT)

  4. Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: A tale of two gold miners, with a few words for Catriona and Matthew's DogI am sorry but the idiot who crafted one RNS today always spurs me to bad language especially when his work is so shite. The two companies discussed are Ariana Resources (AAU) and Amaroq (AMRQ).

  5. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Mark Smith explains where Nigel Wray is going all wrongTom I discuss two different approaches to making money from small caps as Mark explains where Nigel Wray has been going wrong for all these years. I cover Sealand Capital (SCGL), Eurasia Mining (EUA), Hydrogen Utopia (HUI), Premier African (PREM) and Powerhouse Energy (PHE) in a day shortened by another appointment with the Shipmans.

  6. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 1: the BBC and the Government has not got a scooby about growth but Probiotix is a multi bagger as it doesI start with BBC Radio 4 on the school run and how it thinks the UK can grow its economy. Sadly the Government is equally misguided. Then onto Probiotix (PBX) which should be a core small cap holding after today's trading statement. A second bearcast will follow later

  7. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Gold almost at $ATH, Evil Banksta set for more ballet and £55 Galician Octopus c/o Adam Reynolds?I start with gold, then look at Premier African (PREM), tough luck Monkey, Beluscura (BELL), Sealand Galaxy Capital (SGCL) and Red Rock Resources (RRR) with more jam not arriving tomorrow from Andrew Bell

  8. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast 2: Time for Comrades Poulden and Kamani to eat humble pie and/or fall on their swordIn today's second bearcast I look at Wishbone Gold (WSBN), Revolution Beauty (REVB), boohoo.com (BOO), Quantum Blockchain (QBT), Enwell (ENW), Sealand Galaxy Capital (SGCL) and Hydrogen Utopia (HUI)

  9. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The Sealand Tale of Tom Sawyer is Nobel Prize winning fictionI discuss Proton Motor Power Systems (PPS), Enteq (NTQ) and then the amazing tale of Tom Sawyer and the fiction from Sealand Capital Galaxy (SCGL) now a near £100 million disaster waiting to go to zero. I conclude on Georgina Energy (GEX) where Jerry Keen's reputational car crash is accelerating.

  10. Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: staring at a balance sheet, this is all wrong, I smell naughtinessI have been staring at a balance sheet, checking timelines and I think I know what went on an its all wrong. This bearcast features Georgina Energy (GEX), Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) and Catenai (CTAI) from when it was Milestone Group (MSG) run by Deborah White who should be in jail.
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