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[firmor] 20/11/2017 10:38

It not be long before another Rns I think this maybe this week AGM a week Thursday

[ukgeorge] 20/11/2017 09:42

Why? Do they have any operations in Zimbabwe?

[lordz] 20/11/2017 08:07

Mugabee now out of power. Good news for BOD surely.

[lordz] 20/11/2017 06:52

Besides pick and fork isn't going to take you half a mile deep in a few hours, it'll take you weeks without new modern technology. Come on move on.

[lordz] 20/11/2017 06:49

Fenner66 think of yourself on a horse and cart you'll say,' it's slow need something faster', well we now have cars.

[ein4] 19/11/2017 20:35

Fenders. Look again at Elmfields post?

[fenners66] 19/11/2017 20:27

CURRYPASTY
17 Nov '17 - 12:43 - 3381 of 3397 2 0
best place to find gold is where someone else has already found it.

Not if you want commercial quantities and they have already cleaned it out.

There is a big difference between finding traces left behind and getting a profit from commercial quantities.

[elmfield] 19/11/2017 19:04

Fenton,
Ever heard of modern technological methods,
Moved on since the 1800s😉

[lordz] 19/11/2017 18:02

I don't know about you Fenner66.. But BOD are going to keep on moving upwards.

[fenners66] 19/11/2017 17:30

Thanks for the history lesson.
So 50,000 miners between 1870 and 1889 then de beers got a monopoly and these kimberlites have been " rediscovered"
So this one man and his donkey outfit( see photo from annual accounts) are going to find something missed by 50,000 plus miners in at least 19 years........

Hey it's another good story......

[lordz] 19/11/2017 15:24

Watch this very closely now and til the mining takes place it could be another AK6 mine (Karowe ). Big hit.

[lordz] 18/11/2017 12:58

De Beers have been around since the Anglo Boer War.

[lordz] 18/11/2017 12:43

A little bit of history of the Anglo bier war during 1800.https://www.britannica.com/place/South-Africa/Diamonds-gold-and-imperialist-intervention-1870-1902Diamonds and confederationA chance find in 1867 had drawn several thousand fortune seekers to alluvial diamond diggings along the Orange, Vaal, and Harts rivers. Richer finds in "dry diggings" in 1870 led to a large-scale rush. By the end of 1871 nearly 50,000 people lived in a sprawling polyglot mining camp that was later named Kimberley.Initially, individual diggers, black and white, worked small claims by hand. As production rapidly centralized and mechanized, however, ownership and labour patterns were divided more starkly along racial lines. A new class of mining capitalists oversaw the transition from diamond digging to mining industry as joint-stock companies bought out diggers. The industry became a monopoly by 1889 when De Beers Consolidated Mines (controlled by Cecil Rhodes) became the sole producer. Although some white diggers continued to work as overseers or skilled labourers, from the mid-1880s the workforce consisted mainly of black migrant workers housed in closed compounds by the companies (a method that had previously been used in Brazil).The diamond zone was simultaneously claimed by the Orange Free State, the South African Republic, the western Griqua under Nicolaas Waterboer, and southern Tswana chiefs. At a special hearing in October 1871, Robert W. Keate (then lieutenant governor of Natal) found in favour of Waterboer, but the British persuaded him to request protection against his Boer rivals, and the area was annexed as Griqualand West.The annexation of the diamond fields signaled a more progressive British policy under a Liberal ministry but fell short of the ambitious confederation policy pursued by Lord Carnarvon, the colonial secretary in Benjamin Disraeli's 1874 Conservative government; he sought to unite the republics and colonies into a self-governing federation in the British Empire, a concept inspired by Theophilus Shepstone, who, as secretary for native affairs in Natal, urged a coherent regional policy with regard to African labour and administration.Carnarvon concentrated at first on persuading the Cape and the Free State to accept federation, but a conference in London in August 1876 revealed how unreceptive these parties were to the proposal. With his southern gambit frustrated, Carnarvon embarked on a northern strategy. The South African Republic (Transvaal), virtually bankrupt, had suffered military humiliation at the hands of the Pedi, and support for President Thomas F. Burgers had declined because of this. Carnarvon commissioned Shepstone to annex the Transvaal, and, after encountering only token resistance at the beginning of 1877, he proclaimed it a British colony a few months later.The new possession proved difficult to administer as empty coffers and insensitivity to Afrikaner resentments led to a clash over tax payments, and, under a triumvirate of Paul Kruger, Piet Joubert, and Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, the Transvaal Boers opted to fight for independence. British defeats, especially at Majuba in 1881, ended British insistence on the concept of confederation. By the London Convention of 1884, republican self-government was restored, subject to an imprecise British "suzerainty" over external relations.

[lordz] 17/11/2017 17:47

Next few weeks towards the end of the year and the new year it's unthinkable it's going to be nuts . More discoverys drilling mining.

[lordz] 17/11/2017 17:43

Don't forget to the other discovered kimberlites and projects around Botswana. This is going to huge.

[tomatoma2] 17/11/2017 16:15

Positive end to the week To put the size of these 8 pipes into perspective it should be noted that the original Kimberley pipe which produced 33 million carats was only 3.7 ha in size. That's about 10 million carats per hectare. BOD's has 8 pipes in this project area, the largest of these is about a third of that of Kimberley. Rather interesting. Slowly slowly catchee monkey.

[ein4] 17/11/2017 14:32

Maibwe will be good once the matter is dealt with by the liquidator, hopefully by March 18?, in fact it could be a serious company maker?

[lordz] 17/11/2017 13:40

Maibwe was a kick in the teeth as it would have been a good deal to go for

[lordz] 17/11/2017 13:34

Great news all round

[firmor] 17/11/2017 13:32

An with drilling results thorny river to be reported over the next few weeks looking good GLA

[lordz] 17/11/2017 13:21

Old with new ground breaking technology

[currypasty] 17/11/2017 12:43

best place to find gold is where someone else has already found it.. probably works for diamonds too