African Potash (AFPO) was on a crazy valuation prior to today but has just run a red flag up the mastpole which must make any sane investor on this planet (and perhaps even some of its deranged groupies on the LSE Asylum) run for the hills.
John Meyer of SP Angel this morning comments on African Potash (AFPO), BHP Billiton (BLT), FinnAust Mining (FAM), Firestone Diamonds (FDI), Hummingbird Resources (HUM), Premier African Minerals (PREM), Rambler Metals (RMM), Solgold (SOLG) and ZincOx (ZOX) as well as offering a detailed macro view on the news that is shaping global mining and the AIM mining pond.
John Meyer of SP Angel this morning comments on African Potash (AFPO), Condor Gold (CNR), Thor Mining (THR) and Anglo American (AAL) as well as offering a detailed macro view on the news that is shaping global mining and the AIM mining pond.
It was all so predictable. On 6 January African Potash (AFPO) issued an RNS which was both utterly pointless but also just about credible enough to have the Bulletin Board Morons/Zak Mir frothing. The morons ploughed into the aftermarket - not noticing that the RNS was in fact just confirming that part of a deal already announced several months prior had been completed but that no financials were revealed - paying up to 2.1p per share. The crony capitalists said "thank you very much cannon fodder" on the back of the pump and today came the dump... a placing raising gross proceeds of £825,000 at just 1.7p. However...
Featuring shares in African Potash (AFPO), Bahamas Petroleum (BPC), Greatland Gold (GGP), Strategic Minerals (SML), Stratex International (STI) and Tern (TERN) with share price targets for all five stocks.
AIM-quoted African Potash (AFPO) has paid some £70,000 for a 4.74% stake in fellow AIM counter and specialist investment group Blenheim Natural Resources (BNR) as part of its declared policy of participating as fully as it can in what chairman Chris Cleverly argues remains one of the fastest growing sectors in the world. African Potash, which combines a role in sourcing and supplying potash, a key source for fertiliser, with the 1.7 billion-tonne Lac Dinga potash mining project in the West African Republic of Congo, is contributing to a £640,000 placing at a lowly 0.8p by Blenheim, whose backers include veteran resources investor Bruce Rowan and seasoned plantations player and director Konrad Legg.
Featuring shares in AFC Energy (AFC), African Potash (AFPO), Concha (CHA), IGas Energy (IGAS), Pinnacle (PINN) Technology and W Resources (WRES) with share price targets for all six stocks.
Our scepticism about overhyped African Potash (AFPO) just moved up a notch as it has borrowed £750,000 from the Mrs of the FD in what must be one of the expensive loans in history.
Featuring shares in African Potash (AFPO), Bahamas Petroleum (BPC), Jubilee Platinum (JLP), MX Oil (MXO, Pantheon Resources (PANR) and Strat Aero (AERO) with share price targets set for all six stocks.
Things have gone a bit quiet at cash strapped African Potash (AFPO) since a raft of bullish announcements lifted the shares tenfold a couple of months ago.
Featuring shares in African Potash (AFPO), New World Oil & Gas (NEW), Premaitha (NIPT), Vast Resources (VAST), Westminster Group (WSG), together with some share price targets.
Featuring shares in African Potash (AFPO), Edge Resources (EDG), Ithaca Energy (IAE), Minco (MIO) and Orosur Mining (OMI) with share price targets for all five stocks.
Featuring shares in African Potash (AFPO), Berkeley Energy (BKY), Mobile Streams (MOS), Sovereign Mines of Africa (SMA), Red Rock Resources (RRR) with share price targets for all five stocks.
I am abroad at the moment and the London Stock market doesn’t kick off until 3PM my time. This has its drawbacks as I have recently found myself reading twitter and bulletin boards while I await the open. Although I am not a particularly sensitive soul I do feel rather cross when I read the perfectly beastly things being said about me.
Fertiliser play African Potash (AFPO) has fixed funding arrangements to carry out its latest $100 million (£65 million) of supply deals and recruited two former government ministers to its board. African-born Lord Hain, former Labour cabinet minister and as Peter Hain a past leader of campaigns against South African apartheid, is becoming a non-executive director of the AIM-quoted company, which is also bringing Mark Simmonds, recently Conservative Foreign Office Minister for Africa, onto the board.
