Botswana Diamonds Share Discussion Threads

[1teemore] 14/4/2024 20:23

Did someone give fenners66 magic mushrooms for breakfast- the're obviously working!!

[fenners66] 13/4/2024 01:24

TBTT - you honestly have no idea that the board you put so much faith in has with their compatriots run up over £48.5m losses
That they spread themselves so thin there is little wonder.
They supposedly have projects all over the world - but none have any prospect of meaningful sales.
They talk about an oil deal that is still waiting to be "ratified" 16 years later.

Are you the perfect punter ? Silo'd and ignorant of the draw on these people ?

That is what these boards are for - informing others of the "facts" as presented by the accounts and RNS's that they do not read themselves....
Happy to help.

[tigerbythetail] 12/4/2024 16:40

Fenners has been here for years and years - he's part of the furniture. Every bridge must have its troll, and every chat board as well, it seems. It takes all sorts, I suppose.

[799boy] 12/4/2024 15:55

fenners,

I really don’t get it. You suggest that…

‘the sycophants and gamblers following these companies are the ones who have been made fools of ...’

This suggests you are not invested here and never will be. So why on earth do you spend (waste) time on this board? I mean, I know it’s a free world and people can, for the most part do what they choose but surely, surely life has other things to offer you? Maybe time spent travelling? Time with family? Read a book maybe?

I just can’t get my head around your rationale for burning energy on what, in your opinion, is a lost cause. Maybe it’s time to move on to more positive, life enhancing things..?

[tigerbythetail] 12/4/2024 13:57

You know your posts are garbage, Fenners.
BOD is the legal successor company of African Diamonds, which developed the AK6/Karowe mine that was bought by Lucara about a dozen years ago, and which yielded very substantial returns for its investors. So JT and James Campbell have an outstanding track record of success in this field.
I don't know anything at all about the other companies you mention, and care less.

[fenners66] 12/4/2024 12:52

The shares here down 95 % from their one time highs and the trajectory has followed the same pattern as ARK, CLON and PET...
no surprises there at all...

[fenners66] 12/4/2024 12:49

Well those RNS's have gone down really well...

TBTT - are you aware of the narrative of the rest of the Clontarf companies or are you just looking at BOD in isolation?

20 years of "exploration " failure. Just decades of losses.

Then the same small group of people supposed to be running all these companies all over the world in all these different fields ...and to add in a new AI expert - the same person who has been trying for years to get greenore gold going with Finn as a director and then as a director of a company that provided services ....

And the market isn't buying it....

I would suggest the sycophants and gamblers following these companies are the ones who have been made fools of ...

[tigerbythetail] 11/4/2024 10:25

Oh Fenners, you did make a bit of a fool of yourself yesterday. The whole point of AI is that it employs very few people, with one operator doing the gruntwork it would usually take 100 post-grad geology students to do. Truly, it will change the world, and not all in good ways. In my own field it will cause thousands of redundancies of highly-skilled and highly-paid workers.
As for today's news, yes, it's possible but unlikely that the new suspected kimberlite pipes aren't kimberlite at all, or that they are not diamondiferous (unlike KX-36). But James Campbell is a world-class expert, so I trust his judgement.

[fenners66] 11/4/2024 10:16

Or maybe nothing at all

[tigerbythetail] 11/4/2024 08:55

Almost total indifference from market!
I note this post on LSE:
"In JT summary he states the original 3.5ha has almost 9 million carats. So with extra 12 + 6ha found, that's potentially 54 million more carats. Total of say 60 to round. At the inferred $65 per carat that is 3.9 billion in value, but of course there are huge set up costs etc... but this could be the next big diamond mine, and the likes of De Beers etc could be tempted to place in an offer. Quick maths, so would need to check... But WOW potential."
Actually, it's better than this, speaking purely mathematically. If you equate any kimberlite pipe to a tube, and the shape of the open pit required to mine it as an inverted cone, then the larger the surface area of the kimberlite pipe, the deeper it remains economic to mine (lower strip ratios). But that's jumping ahead a bit!

[tigerbythetail] 11/4/2024 07:53

RNS out - new potential discovery near KX36 in Botswana and figures on the size of first find.
If you do the maths, the discovery could be huge.
(Presumably humans made this find and not AI!)

[fenners66] 09/4/2024 18:35

Apart from the name Planetary AI - what is there link or competance with AI ?

[perroverde] 09/4/2024 12:00

The people doing this job are Planetary AI and International Geoscience Services, the latter having a multitude of international mining and exploration corporate and Government clients including The World Bank in the USA, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the UK.
In Africa they have done projects across Africa (Mozambique, Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Cameroon, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, Liberia and Sierra Leone, mostly in conjunction with projects often funded by The World Bank.
More specifically and more importantly from a BOD perspective, in Botswana they worked for the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water on a Government-sponsored plan to transform the Department of Geological Survey to a statutory public entity known as the Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI).

They don't necessarily need a big balance sheet or a herd of employees to do what they do and would appear extremely well equipped and experienced to do this particular job.

[fenners66] 09/4/2024 11:22

Strange thing is that Companies House has a number of different references to G I B all born same month and year
but not listed as the directorships held as the same person....

Perhaps its coincidence or perhaps these are the same ...

Magnum Resources Newry Co. Down , dissolved
PLANETARY AI LIMITED
GRID SURVEYS EUROPE LTD Sutherland Scotland
LOCH TAY HOLDINGS LTD - With that man Finn again
HEBRIDEAN NEW METALS LIMITED Sutherland Scotland
etc

Wow such a busy man - how does he keep up ?
All those companies to devote all the time to , how do they make them a success ?

[fenners66] 09/4/2024 11:10

Then of course there is Gavin Ingo Berkenheger - also known to Clontarf as a former director at

GREENORE GOLD PLC a Horgan and Finn production
12 years in the making and still no turnover ?
Accumulated losses of £159k and a plc company.

Accounts with loads of maps and pictures - even a periodic table - but no sales !

Back with a different company , how quaint...

[fenners66] 09/4/2024 11:01

This gets better ...

I was looking at the IGS bit as if they would be the IT partner .... and they do actually have a business but little in terms of fixed assets

but really should I be looking at "PLANETARY AI LIMITED" ?

Clues in the name yes?

So go to their website and look at the "People" page :-

Peter Jackson - "Geoscience Director"
John Ludden - "International Director"
David Noble - "Innovations and Engineering Director"

these all sound quite grand , Innovation must be important for an AI company.....

However company's house tells us
They all resigned as directors in Sept /Oct 2022 !

Could this AI company have failed to keep their website up to date ?

[fenners66] 09/4/2024 10:39

SP - its what Clontarf do.

Jump on the latest buzzword bandwagon.
Nothing else was working so ... Lithium
now add "AI"

Sure these things might work , but equally narrative has kept the wolf from the door for 2 decades so lets add some more ....

[fenners66] 09/4/2024 10:37

Ashley Charles JOHNSON

JOLUCO LTD Micro company accounts where the accounts state he owes the company £148 at their last balance sheet date....

Not exactly Microsoft size....

[slim pickings] 09/4/2024 10:32

https://planetary-ai.space/newsClearly a long term project but at least in by way of partnering with the right organisation.Fit BOD, the most interesting aspect is the potential to find other minerals giving BOD a route to diversification, which given the state of diamond market, must be welcomed IMO.

[fenners66] 09/4/2024 09:37

Professor Taylor

Previous experience -


CENTRAL ASIA RESOURCES LIMITED Total exemption full accounts Dissolved via voluntary strike off 2021

[fenners66] 09/4/2024 09:19

Since they are attaching such weight to the AI search for targets - they are going with a huge worldwide AI company - surely ?

OpenAI?
Microsoft?
Amazon web services?
Google?
Lambda Labs?

After all there will be a lot of eggs in this basket....
Edit correction missed the "international" bit


its International Geoscience Services Ltd - who have filed abbridged accounts - no P&L and was audited.

Only £4416 of fixed assets - just about enough for one PC with a good graphics card !
Capital and reserves of £769K - but they actually made a profit !

Just 7 employees. presumably the 5 directors +2.

Does this lend credibility to the BOD narrative ?

[fenners66] 09/4/2024 09:08

So now they want to reduce the workload of their geologist to zero?
Nice ambition get paid for doing very little ....
As if that has ever happened before.

But of course AI is we are told , only as good as the data it can learn from - has anyone trained the AI before?
How much will it all cost ?
No doubt they are not going to make anyone redundant to pay for it - so admin costs will rise - but they will just capitalise so they can write off later....

Add the words AI and the next fund raise will be lapped up by the gullible huh?

"Too big for timely analysis by humans. "

Well after decades of getting nowhere with the Clontarf kennel they finally acknowledge their humans cannot do something in a timely manner.
Time to turn over a new leaf and fess up to the rest of the inabilities ?

[turbotrader2] 03/4/2024 20:37

Are you on drugs? No diamonds anytime for vast SCAM

[perroverde] 03/4/2024 20:16

Don’t forget they’ve been continuing to squirrel away at KX36 and surroundings. Who knows what they may have found. It’s always been thought there’s a lot more to be found there. And who knows what using the AI stuff to look again at the huge collection of data might reveal (not just diamonds).
Then there’s Ghaghoo.
And a possible JV
And now Swaziland.
And a mcap of £3m. Crackers.

[iceagefarmer] 03/4/2024 19:09

dont underestimate a deal with zimbabwe ,will be mega transformational