Alba Mineral Resources Share Discussion Threads

[cudmore] 06/8/2017 18:44

Weekend press comments regarding UKOG should see them marked up massively first thing imho. Think we may have a window to top up here first thing as these will be where the canny investor puts his money as at today's share price these are severely undervalued when you look at their stake in UKOG

[25wbh] 05/8/2017 20:55

Certainly Alba has more than one string to its bow
all comfortably spaced for funding

[dreamtwister] 05/8/2017 20:41

rednecks vs metal heads !

Alba holds a 15 per cent interest in Horse Hill Developments Limited, the company which has a 65 per cent participating interest and operatorship of the Horse Hill oil and gas project (licences PEDL 137 and PEDL 246) in the UK Weald Basin. Alba also has a direct 5% interest in Production Licence 235, which comprises the producing onshore Brockham Oil Field.

Alba owns a 90 per cent interest in the Amitsoq Graphite Project in Southern Greenland and has an option over the remaining 10 per cent.plus 100% black sands our nieghbours bluejay "jay" also have the black sands in their portfolio.

greenland has opened up for minerals due to climate change with a window for 24hrs daylight & 5 months shipping althou their was concern about migrating walruses,this has been dismissed as the locals have confirmed that no walruses have been sighted as they have eaten them !

[25wbh] 05/8/2017 20:25

so am I Rayrac and wont be parting with any too soon.
Looking forward to 7.00am Monday. B

[rayrac] 05/8/2017 19:52

Ukog could set this on fire! So im holding the shares...

[cpap man] 04/8/2017 21:40

If you ever look at small cap oil & gas companies maybe take a close look at recently [Monday] fully listed [standard] United Oil & Gas [UOG]

UOG are headed up by 2 ex Tullow Oil [TLW] boys Brian Larkin and Dr. Jonathan Leather

MKT CAP is £6M with over half of that being in cash....UOG have 2 drills planned in the next 4 to 6 months with the 1st drill in October

Obviously with their TLW connections the boys have some massive plans to take the UOG share price from pennies to £ pounds £

[rayrac] 04/8/2017 19:45

Ukog?👉ӿ99;🤔⏰🔜

[25wbh] 04/8/2017 16:14

nobody wants to be out over the weekend as Monday could have an announcement made by someone

[cudmore] 04/8/2017 15:45

Looks like these can o lay move northwards now with most of the profit takers gone imho. Next RNS will be crucial and no doubt send these flying up.

[lovegod] 04/8/2017 09:59

Check out Kibo

[datait] 04/8/2017 09:21

Don't forget SOLO as they will rocket soon on news and a long time coming.

Watch this space.

[cossie] 03/8/2017 21:50

they already have success with Brockham and Horse Hill. Brockham will be in production in the short term (5% of .....bbls/d) ALBA is undervalued for sure. GLA

[gazza102] 03/8/2017 17:55

You had better buy some lol

[backmarker] 03/8/2017 17:25

okay, okay, I can take the water-boarding but not this constant bulletin-boarding.

I believe, [croak], I believe.

just stop the constant bombarding. Yes I'll feed the Hungry Horse, and ride with the Brockham Hunt. I'll even put salt in my Kimmeridge every morning, and always use a graphite pencil.

but just spare me the cut-and-pasting of all that technical stuff, don't damage my face.

I'll buy some, I WILL buy some ALBA.

[dreamtwister] 03/8/2017 14:24

the black sand could fund the graphite as easy to exhume,with the green revoulution our graphite will be fast tracked to supply demand,as my other holdings with graphite
are nearer to production but are in a political limbo,so alba could fill the shortfall in suply,graphene is the tech for t/morows world replaceing silicon for solar pannels plus the tech is being developed for the intrusion of paint,so the electric vechicles can be sprayed with the paint and self charge.......printed circuit boards.....capacitators....water filters....bendable mobile phones.....thinner televisions....batteries and fluids for drilling within the energy sector,so i think graphene will be in cricital supply,

[25wbh] 03/8/2017 12:21

definitely Rayrac

[rayrac] 03/8/2017 11:28

Needs a success with oil first though, in order to finance the mining of graphite. Imo

[7767] 03/8/2017 10:20

If they are sitting on such a mineral surely at this price they would be a strong HOLD or weak buy BUT they are being heavily sold (in comparison)

Just a note about another stock (sorry off board) Lidco:- I think IMO they are good to 14/15p I have been buying since 5p and they are pushing sales of their unit in Nth America with their own newly formed team created by a good salesman in the CEO MD office (Matt Sassone) Who has a good track record in the market. They have been static at 9.75p (mid) for some time whilst sales team established itself in America once news of their assumed successful start breaks there is room for price increase. I am not ramping I have been watching this share for 6 years. DYOR

[graylyn1] 03/8/2017 09:10

And it will be a company maker!

[25wbh] 03/8/2017 08:34

Its the thinnest and strongest element ever made and Alba sits on the highest grades of Graphite in the world
For Alba the oil is the present but graphite is definitely the future

[25wbh] 03/8/2017 08:30

And more


A second centre for research into "wonder-material" graphene is to be built in Manchester, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.

The £60m Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre will be located at the University of Manchester.

Mr Osborne said it would enable graphene products to be fast tracked from the drawing board to the market.

It is designed to complement the National Graphene Institute (NGI) under construction and due to open next year.



What is graphene?


Molecular structure of grapheneImage copyright SPL ◾Graphene is a form of carbon that exists as a sheet, one atom thick
◾Atoms are arranged into a two-dimensional honeycomb structure
◾Identification of graphene was announced in October 2004
◾It is about 100 times stronger than steel and conducts electricity better than copper
◾About 1% of graphene mixed into plastics could turn them into electrical conductors

How sticky tape trick led to Nobel Prize

The NGI is also located at the University of Manchester.




Mr Osborne said the new centre alongside the NGI put Manchester and the UK in pole position to "lead the world" in graphene technology.

He said its properties made it "one of the most important commercial scientific breakthroughs in recent memory".

"It presents tremendous opportunities with the potential to provide thousands of jobs and billions of pounds of further investment," he added.

Half of the cash for the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre is coming from clean technology and renewable energy company Masdar based in Abu Dhabi.

Graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms packed in a honeycomb structure. It has a range of applications, from drugs that can be delivered to specific cells, to bendable smartphones.

Graphene was isolated for the first time in 2004 by Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester. They were awarded the Nobel Prize for their research is 2010.


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[25wbh] 03/8/2017 08:21

Graphene is the future and this is why Alba is sitting on a fortune




Obtaining graphene from graphite

Updated Thursday 11th September 2014



Discover how graphene, the thinnest material known, can be extrated from graphite, a form of carbon







We are all familiar with carbon in the form of graphite because we use graphite every time we write with a graphite pencil. Graphite is composed of carbon and is one of several forms of carbon, another common one being diamond.

Interestingly graphite can also be used as a lubricant in ball-bearings. The lubricant properties of graphite are due to a rather unusual reason. The small flat crystals have a layer of adsorbed nitrogen molecules on the surface, providing a cushion for the crystals to glide over each other.



However in a vacuum this gas layer is pumped off and the graphite becomes stickier, so it is not a useful lubricant in outer space.



The carbon atoms in graphite display a regular arrangement in the crystal structure shown in the figure below. You can see that each carbon atom bonds to three others (that is at distances of 142 pm or 1.42 x 10-10 m), forming a network of hexagons. The graphite structure has a giant or an extended array in two dimensions only, comprising flat sheets of carbon atoms.





A crystal structure of graphite
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The crystal structure of graphite with carbon atoms shown as grey spheres and carbon to carbon bonds as grey lines.



The layers do not lie directly over one another. The carbon–carbon distance within the layers is the same (i.e. 142 pm) but importantly between the layers it is considerably longer (actually equal to 340 pm).



You know that graphite is a soft, grey solid as you find when using a pencil. The softness is attributed to the weak layer-to-layer bonding. Graphite has a so-called anisotropic structure, meaning that it varies in different directions.



Consequently graphite displays anisotropic conductivity, namely it differs in different directions. In the plane of the layers, graphite conducts electricity, but it is a poor conductor in the perpendicular direction.



The short interatomic distances are a sign of strong bonding between atoms. Conversely, long interatomic distances are indicative of weak bonds. This means that only weak bonding exists between the layers and this provides a means of obtaining the fascinating material graphene from graphite.



At only one carbon atom thick, graphene is the thinnest material known. It is also the first truly two-dimensional material and conducts heat better than all other materials. Graphene actually consists of a single layer of graphite. Originally it was obtained from a piece of graphite using adhesive tape to lift the top layer from the graphite and to transfer it to silicon wafer. The researchers who performed this feat and then studied its properties, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, were rewarded by winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010.

Properties of graphene

Since its isolation graphene has been the subject of intense research. This has led to the observation of many fascinating properties with many potential uses, some are listed below:
Graphene sheets are flexible, yet it is also one of the strongest materials available. Therefore as it is strong and robust it could be used in composite materials for satellites, aircraft and cars.
Graphene displays a large theoretical specific surface area of 2630 m2g-1, i.e. approximately ten times the surface area of a tennis court per gram.
It exhibits a high thermal conductivity.
It is a cost-effective transparent conductive electrode material. As a conductor of electricity it performs similarly to copper which combined with its transparency suggests its application in solar panels and electronic display screens. Furthermore it is currently a top candidate for replacing indium tin oxide (ITO), which is currently used to form transparent electrodes in devices such as electronic displays.
Graphene transistors would retain their properties down to smaller sizes than silicon so they could be useful for smaller electronic devices.
Graphene is a perfect crystal. Even one molecule adhering to its surface would alter its properties so it could be used in very sensitive detectors.

Currently there is intense research into chemically functionalising the surface of graphene to enable the tuning of its properties for a particular application. Furthermore as graphene sheets are not soluble in most solvents, improving its solubility via functionalization will enable graphene based materials to be more easily processed for real applications.

Carbon nanotubes

Rolling up a section of a sheet of graphene to form a tube would in principle produce a carbon nanotube (Figure 2). The x- and y-directions are only two of the many ways in which a graphene sheet may be rolled up to generate a different series of nanotubes.






One way of rolling up a graphene sheet to form a nanotube
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One way of rolling up a graphene sheet to form a nanotube



Carbon nanotubes are example of a nanomaterial that is materials with one dimension on the nano-scale, 1-100 nm. A nanometre, nm, corresponds to 10-9 m, where a human hair is approximately 80,000- 100,000 nanometers wide.

Carbon nanotubes were first synthesised in 1980, although not by rolling up graphene.



Carbon nanotubes are as strong as steel and are used in, for example, tennis racquets. Quite amazingly it is possible to use carbon nanotubes as a type of very small test tube. Crystals grown in such tubes may adopt a different structure from a bulk crystal because of the confined space.


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