Kiwara Share Discussion Threads

[jakes114] 21/7/2009 16:51

FND looks a nice little outfit, will be a runner once they get the second hand plant up and running, no rush to get shares yet though
IMHO.
I take it that you have some Jonny
J

[jonny flame] 21/7/2009 13:14

...one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush??

[stucom] 21/7/2009 11:59

fellas,you may find colin bird's hands are full at the mo!.....lol

[jonny flame] 21/7/2009 11:18

Jakes - I agree, reckon this is a good candidate for a takeover target. If you have time I'd love to know your thoughts on FND.

Best regards,
JF

[jakes114] 21/7/2009 10:33

Very quiet here, a contact from the industry believes that this one has great potential despite more drilling work to be done and that eventually it will be bought out.
A report out yesterday from RBS research on copper considers that 2011 will see a shortfall in copper production worldwide providing a boost to copper price Kiwara will be in a prime position by that time if not already bought out.
This one is for the patient
Jakes

[beagrie] 17/6/2009 14:12

Excellent news and still the funding to come this is looking quite good.

[james t kirk] 30/4/2009 07:26

Funding now fully in place to bring Kalumbila, Kawako into production and it doesn't look like dilution is too heavy either so well done Colin..

[share_shark] 03/2/2009 12:38

Here we are folks. I am not a holder.

Recommended today. From UK.An.


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Kiwara Plc* – Two Potential Company Makers:
Speculative Buy at 14p


Key Data

EPIC
KIW

Share Price
14p

Spread
12p -16p

Total no of shares
174.4 million

Market Cap
£24.4 million

12 Month Range
14p – 25p

Net Cash
£1 million

Market
AIM

Website
www.kiwara.co.uk

Sector
Industrial Metals

Contact
Colin Bird, Chairman
Tel: [phone]

AIM and JSE listed Kiwara has demonstrated during the past three months that it has two potentially company making prospects in Zambia – a nickel discovery at Kawako and the Kalumbila copper project where a SAMREC (South African Mineral Resource and Mineral Valuation Committee) compliant resource estimate is likely to be delivered within two months. The company has a solid balance sheet with sufficient cash to fund most of its 2009 operations and an experienced management team well positioned to create value and incentivised via significant personal equity holdings.

Kiwara's operations in Zambia are owned via an 80% interest in a joint venture with LM Engineering Ltd, Kalumbila Minerals (Kalumbila-M). Kalumbila Minerals holds the exploration rights to a 2,842 square kilometre licence in the North West of the country covered by Ministry of Mines Prospect Licence 267. Kiwara built its interest in the joint venture through an earn-in agreement that required US$2.2 million be spent on exploration. Licence 267 and the surrounding area are historically known to contain copper, nickel, cobalt, iron ore and uranium, and although the licence is due to expire in September 2009, the Zambian Mining Act allows further renewals.

Kalumbila-M is currently focused on 3 projects within licence 267 – Kawako, Kalumbila and Kawanga.

The recent nickel discovery at Kawako means that it must be regarded as the most interesting project/target. Sitting 12 kilometres North West of Kalumbila the presence of nickel had been confirmed through soil geo-chemistry and the assaying of rock chips. However, recent drilling results show long intersections of high grade nickel high close to the surface. The two drill holes assayed so far are wide apart and both mineralised, suggesting the possibility of a large deposit. An infill drilling programme is now being scheduled. While it is still early days, the potential of the site is clear, and with few new major nickel discoveries having made in recent years, Kawako has the clear potential to be a company maker.

Kalumbila is at a more advanced stage of exploration with 31 bore holes drilled by previous operator Roan Selection Trust (RST) and Kiwara having drilled 31 core holes and 20 Reverse Circulation (RC) bore holes of its own. Showing good results for copper and cobalt, the Company is currently completing a JORC compliant inferred resource estimate which we expect to be announced in March 2009 and will precede a scoping study.

Kawanga is a uranium play which Kiwara is currently re-assessing following completion of an initial drill programme as well as conducting various geological surveys. Although at an early stage, the exploration programme aims to establish a SAMREC compliant U308 mineral resource and subsequent pre-feasibility study.

Kiwara is rapidly progressing its activities at Kalumbila with an extensive drilling programme pushing for a JORC compliant resource estimate in early 2009. Kawako has received more attention given its recent exciting discoveries but is less advanced in terms of its development, while Kawanga, being the least developed prospect, remains an interesting play on Uranium. The key point is that there are strong indications that both of the two most advanced prospects will be commercially viable and both have the potential to be 'company makers'. Valuations across the junior mining sector have been depressed in recent months and Kiwara has not escaped completely unscathed, although the dramatic progress made on both of its lead prospects has limited the damage. The potential of either is not discounted in the current share price and, at 14p, our stance is speculative buy.

[vanbrussel] 05/10/2008 18:06

Impressive valuations for Sulphide deposits:
(! Chart published at a time Nickel was at $13/lb - May 2008 )



Source:

[vanbrussel] 26/9/2008 11:15

1. Rainy season starts in November (till May)
2. They are looking for £4M possibly through a JV

Can't be a problem to get funding as these are sulphides
the rainy season could be just what they need to broker a balanced deal

...It will take a little while to get going on Kawako, though, as the rainy season starts in November, and while the rains didn't hold up drilling too much last year, with the money not yet in place it will be a while before we get any further inkling as to whether the next Voisey Bay is actually in the northwest of land-locked Zambia or not. So anyone in a hurry for news should rest assured that an inferred resource on the Kalumbila copper project, prepared in consultation with Snowden, is due out in February. So far, says Colin, Kalumbila has shown good grades over good widths. But looking ahead, unless Kalumbila can match the quality of results that Kiwara is hoping for from Kawako, it very much looks as though Zambia's new Copperbelt might be something of a Nickelbelt too. We shall see.

[vanbrussel] 26/9/2008 11:08

Kiwara Could Be Sitting On Top Of The Next Voisey's Bay


Minesite London by Alastair Ford (September 25, 2008)

In these bleak markets there have lately been two types of share price graph much in evidence for junior miners: the difference has been whether traders have chosen to send any given company into inexorable decline or into an outright tailspin. On a first pass, Kiwara's shares look as though they've had the somewhat dubious privilege of falling into the former rather than the latter category. Certainly that was the impression over the summer. But there's been a recent and highly significant spike. What's more, if you go back the full twelve months a simple salient fact glares out at you. Kiwara is actually up on the price it first traded at following its listing in the autumn of 2007. And not only is it up, it's up by roughly 20 per cent. Now that's not bad going in this market. How many other mining companies are showing a gain of 20 per cent over the last 12 months? None spring to mind, but readers are welcome to email in with their own happy stories – we could do with a few more right now.
So how has Kiwara managed to keep its head above the water? There are many ways to answer that question. The simplest answer is a near-surface intercept of 53.5 metres grading 1.07% nickel. That's a result you don't see every day. You don't see it many times in a decade. But for precisely that reason, it's worth taking a deeper look at Kiwara's makeup to see how the company got here, and in particular at the experience of the man at the top, chairman Colin Bird. Not only is Colin a seasoned mining veteran who boasts on his CV stints at Anglo American Coal and Costain and time as the mine manager at the Selebi Phikwe nickel copper mine, but he also knows a thing or two about financial markets, sitting, as he does, at the top of the tree at Lion Mining Finance. He also runs Jubilee Platinum, and as such is well-known in London and Johannesburg, and well-liked. He's also a very good promoter, so good that it takes you a long time to realise it.

Nonetheless, Kiwara shares haven't spiked because of Colin's promotional abilities. These are not markets that respond well to froth and empty rhetoric. What Kiwara really owes to Colin is his vision in putting the company on the ground in north-west Zambia, which, he says, is a region that may one day replace the established Copperbelt to the east as the key mining area in Zambia. Less than 40 kilometres away from Kiwara's properties, Equinox have already got the ball rolling at the Lumwana copper project, which is currently working through the last of a few teething issues before commissioning can be completed next year.

The northwest of Zambia has been recognised as prospective for many a year. The way Colin tells it, though, the occurrences and grades were there, but the grades were nevertheless on the lower side of attractive, and, which was more of a project killer back in the day, there was no ability to handle oxides and transitional metals. "Paradoxically", says Colin, "that's now what we want". So Kiwara staked its ground on the premise of prospectivity for base metals, and took some historic numbers on a uranium prospect on the ground as a nice little bonus to tuck away for later. At the moment there are two key mineralised zones that are taking up the bulk of Kiwara's time: the Kalumbila copper prospect, formerly drilled by Anglo on a hunt for nickel, and the Kawako nickel prospect, which was also investigated by Anglo in a campaign in the mid 1990s, the results of which are unknown.

We know the results of Kiwara's own drilling on Kawako, though – we've just quoted the best of the results above. It's that intercept which really set the markets alight, in a month where good news has been thinner on the ground than the hairs on Colin's head. Not only has the company intercepted that 53 metre intercept at 1.07% nickel – and let's be clear, this is a sulphide orebody we're talking about, not a pesky laterite – but within that there was also just over 20 metres at 2.16% nickel. A second drill hole 870 metres away from the first showed up 5.58 metres grading 3.2 per cent nickel, and separately and slightly further down, also delivered a second intercept of just under 11 metres grading 6.73% nickel. Well.... it's early days yet, but the whisper understandably goes round London that the likes of these intercepts haven't been seen since the early exploration news was coming out of Voisey's Bay, a project that was eventually sold off in a multi-billion dollar deal. That stacks up well against Kiwara's modest £35 million market capitalisation, and is a nice chip in the game for Colin to hold onto when he comes to think about future funding.

For the immediate term, Kiwara isn't in dire straits. Cash in the bank stands at around £1.5 million, so that should be enough to keep the lights on, and the dreams alive. What Colin would really like, though, is a chunk of funding of the order of £4 million or so to get the drills really turning, though he's not fool enough to think that he'll get that on the equity markets at the moment. The likelihood is that Kiwara will look for a strategic partner to come in at a premium to the market place. Wishful thinking? Well, one or two such deals have been done in the very recent past – think Kalahari, AusQuest and Goldminex, as also reported on Minesite today – and Colin himself has also delivered a similar deal to Jubilee in days gone by. RAB has never been on the register, so the Philip Richards sword of Damocles won't be hanging over anyone who comes in. Indeed the Philip Richards affair might all be done and dusted by that time, given that RAB's crucial meeting is due on 29th September, and so the market may already washing out another weak link by the time Colin signs up his partner.

It will take a little while to get going on Kawako, though, as the rainy season starts in November, and while the rains didn't hold up drilling too much last year, with the money not yet in place it will be a while before we get any further inkling as to whether the next Voisey Bay is actually in the northwest of land-locked Zambia or not. So anyone in a hurry for news should rest assured that an inferred resource on the Kalumbila copper project, prepared in consultation with Snowden, is due out in February. So far, says Colin, Kalumbila has shown good grades over good widths. But looking ahead, unless Kalumbila can match the quality of results that Kiwara is hoping for from Kawako, it very much looks as though Zambia's new Copperbelt might be something of a Nickelbelt too. We shall see.

[vanbrussel] 25/9/2008 16:42

Well, you don't talk about a major discovery when only 10 miles to the SE at Kalumbila you have a sub 40Kt Ni deposit (8Mt at 0.55% Ni, average thickness 12.5m) if it's only 80Kt Nickel for Kawako.

A 2003 paper on Kalumbila:
A Metamorphosed Proterozoic Carbonaceous Shale-Hosted Co-Ni-Cu Deposit at Kalumbila, Kabompo Dome: The Copperbelt Ore Shale in Northwestern Zambia


Enter Kawako Kiwara in Google Earth for location
Or vanbrussel107 for the whole of Zambian mining

[james t kirk] 25/9/2008 15:17

I thought he meant 5% of world requirement per annum, which would indicate a huge resource, but surely that's not possible.

[vanbrussel] 25/9/2008 14:34

Yep, thanks for posting Anna
By the way this Colin Bird, doesn't he need some more self respect?
These 2 morons on the panel with their stupid behaviour-questions, absolutely disgusting. That's what will stay in my memory me think. 100% De-ramping.

1 Big question: what did Colin mean when he said we can possibly provide 5-7% of the world market?

2007 World Nickel Production = 1.450.000tpa
5% = 72.500 ton
Is that it?
Or did he mean 5% per annum over the life of Mine?

[1waving] 25/9/2008 14:03

G3 --- yup was a bit OTT but not degrading Kiwaras good fortune, good luck to them -- it is more aimed at RSH and co.

[james t kirk] 25/9/2008 13:53

Anna, thanks for posting that it's a very good watch for any Kiwara shareholders.

[ginko3] 25/9/2008 13:38

1 Wave, shut up you silly little person, there was absolutely no ramp within that post - look up the definition before you mouth off. AF is not suggesting that you buy (or sell ) the shares just pointing you towards a video containing factual information !!!!!!

[1waving] 25/9/2008 12:21

RAMP --- RAMP ------ RAMP ----- RAMP ----- RAMP

Anna Faelten you are failing to comply with FSA rules ---- or do the rules not apply to Rivington Street Holdings, GE&CR, t1ps etc

[anna faelten] 25/9/2008 12:15

Here is a clip from the TP show yesterday with Colin B, pitching for Kiwara

I should declare that Kiwara is a corporate client of RSH, for whom I work.

Anna Faelten
Rivington Street Holdings

[vanbrussel] 24/9/2008 10:17

LOL indeed, with Albidon you have a producer at a Marketcap of £ 90M

[pre] 24/9/2008 10:11

classic manipulation or is it as a result of those 2 x 50K sells? on well will have to wait till the next leg up.

[1waving] 24/9/2008 09:48

2 drillhole results and a world class deposit already according to RAMPERS GE&CR ---- could it be time to take profits or even go short ?