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[insails] 17/10/2012 13:40

Good housing starts in USA,= Big wheels turning.

[strollingmolby] 13/10/2012 22:07

Bullish commentary posted on Seeking Alpha:

September 28, 2012

[strollingmolby] 13/10/2012 14:32

Thread for former Titan Europe (LSE:TSW) shareholders who exchanged for TWI paper.

[strollingmolby] 13/10/2012 14:18

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[energyi] 13/6/2003 13:53

New African Eagle thread, here:

[energyi] 13/6/2003 13:52

AIM float stalls on Gold Fields deal

By: Ken Gooding
Posted: 2002/07/17 Wed 15:40 ZE2 | © Miningweb 1997-2002

LONDON - A dream of a deal with South Africa's Gold Fields and a separate one that will take Twigg Minerals into a third African country is delaying the UK based gold explorer's debut on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
Twigg was hoping to join the other exploration and mining companies rushing to get an AIM listing in July before London goes on summer holiday and activity dwindles to a trickle. But the paperwork associated with the Gold Fields deal, which gives the South African group 14.8 percent of Twigg, proved more time-consuming than expected. In any case, Twigg has to wait until July 25 to see if its offer for East African Resources, an Australian junior, is successful.

Mark Parker, managing director, says that present stock market volatility is adding more uncertainty to the timing of Twigg's AIM entry. "But the board has taken a firm decision to list and we will do so before the end of this year."

Gold Fields and Twigg executives first got together at the mining Indaba in Cape Town early this year. Gold Fields is attracted to Twigg particularly by the UK company's Miyabi gold prospect in the Lake Victoria goldfields of Tanzania.

The South African group has stumped up £500,000 for a package of shares and warrants that will give it the 14.8 percent of Twigg as well as the right to form a joint venture to develop the Tazanian project. Most of the money must be spent on Miyabi but until £400,000 has been paid out Gold Fields can withdraw. However, once that sum is spent, Gold Fields can earn 51 percent of a joint venture to develop Miyabi by forking out another £1.5m on further exploration there. The South African group can move up to 70 percent by completing a bankable feasibility study on the property.

While the Gold Fields' shareholding has strings attached, Twigg is unusual because it is very rare for a small exploration company to attract institutional investors, even when it has a market listing. Nevertheless, Twigg already has attracted the J P Morgan Fleming Resources Fund, which at present owns 8 percent.

The Gold Fields deal is right in line with Twigg's avowed philosophy – that it should acquire promising areas, evaluate them quickly and cost-effectively, then develop the best discoveries to a point where they become attractive to the mining majors.

The £500,000 from Gold Fields plus £200,000 raised via a share placing with the help of brokers Loeb Aran in April gives Twigg enough cash to see it through the 15 months before Gold Fields finally makes up its mind to continue with Miyabi. However, Parker says Twigg wants to raise £2-£2.5m in conjunction with the AIM listing so that the company can speed up exploration work and do more of it.

If, as expected, the East African all-share offer worth £375,000 is accepted, Twigg will have control of a useful set of properties in Zambia. East African was to spend £1.8m on these but Parker says: "We would be reviewing this if the bid succeeds."

A move into Zambia would fulfil another element in Twigg's three-pronged strategy for the next couple of years. According to Parker: "We want to consolidated in Tanzania, because that is elephant country, and acquire more properties there."
The company also wants to acquire properties in other African countries – it already is working in Mozambique. "The idea is to diversify out of Tazania while focusing mainly on that country," says Parker.

The third strand of the strategy involves putting the Twigg team's expertise to work – the company was formed by a bunch of explorationists with strong technical backgrounds who believe they have much to offer other junior mining "start-ups." "We don't want to be an investment fund but we can offer cash and expertise to start-ups. Then we can either absorb them or float them."

Parker himself knows Africa and its ways well after working for European and UK government agencies on the continent, including a spell in Tanzania. John Park, Twigg's Australia based chairman, has a successful track record in southern Africa as he was a founder director of Samax, the UK exploration company that discovered the Golden Pride mine in Tanzania, now owned Resolute, the Australian group, and also an extension to the Geita gold mine in that country, called Kukuluma. Ashanti Gold Fields bought Samax for US$140m in November 1998 and Geita is now jointly owned by Ashanti and Anglo American.

Since it was founded in 1996, Twigg has been nursed along by Loeb Aron, a "boutique" financial services company that specialises in helping small exploration and mining companies. But Loeb Aron is not one of AIM's nominated advisers (nomads) and Parker says Twigg has still to select the nomad it will use for the intended listing. Analysts point out that chairman Park has been associated with two previous AIM listings for exploration companies and they employed Nabarro Wells as nomad and W H Ireland as broker - so these two are likely to be on Twigg's list.

At present Twigg is traded on Ofex, the lightly regulated London facility for matched bargains where its shares have changed hands at a high of 17p in the past year and have been as low as 7p. Today the price opened at 13.5p.

[backwardation] 02/6/2002 00:08

OFEX listed and AIM bound....Twigg Minerals Plc....look a very interesting GOLD play....

[backwardation] 01/6/2002 11:53

Twigg Minerals plc - Final Results
Twigg Minerals plc Newstrack Announcements 31/05/2002

TWIGG MINERALS PLC

RESULTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2001

The Twigg Group consists of Twigg Minerals plc and its wholly-owned
subsidiaries Twigg Resources Limited in the UK and Twigg Gold Ltd in Tanzania.
The Group's consolidated balance sheet at 31 December 2001 and profit and loss
account for the year ending 31 December 2001 are appended.

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

Twigg's second annual report covers the year ended 31st December 2001 and
reflects a period of growth and consolidation for the Company. As one of the
most effective and cost efficient junior explorers in our field, Twigg continues
to put more than 80 pence of every GBP1 it spends into exploration,

showing our ability to operate successfully in Africa. These strengths were
recognised in early 2002 by Gold Fields, one of the world's biggest gold
companies, which agreed to invest GBP500,000 in the Company in return for a
right to enter a joint venture on the Miyabi project.

During 2001, we added to our Tanzanian licence portfolio through agreements
with local licence holders over new areas at Mwabomba (Miyabi), Kakumbi and
Zanzui. At Miyabi, we drilled an additional 78 holes with a total of nearly
5,000 metres. We continued to explore our projects in Tanzania through an
accelerated programme of geochemical and geophysical evaluation. In Mozambique
we have extended the tenure period of our Namama licence in order to follow up
geochemical anomalies and a significant sulphide horizon.

On the corporate front we held our first AGM in London and established a
Company share option scheme to provide incentives to our staff and management in
the UK and in Africa. We added to our operational strength through the

appointment of Chris Davies as Executive Director and John McDonald as
Exploration Manager, Tanzania. A placing to raise GBP200,000 in working
capital was completed in August and the board determined to take the company to
a listing on the AIM market during 2002.

TANZANIA
To date, 96 holes with a total of 6281m have been drilled at Miyabi. The
better intersections included 42m at 2.07g/t and 30m at 2.2g/t from Kilimani;
15m at 4.22g/t and 18m at 2.68g/t from Shambani, and 21m at 1.9g/t and 6m at
4.3g/t at Ngaya. Geological information yielded by the drilling showed that
although the mineralisation is related to shearing in all three zones, the
principal host rocks are quite different in each of the zones.

Using the limited drill results to date, the Company has been able to determine
an inferred resource of 140,000 ounces of gold, made up of 2,216,790 tonnes
grading 2.13g/t. The Directors believe that there is excellent potential to
extend this initial resource by further drilling.

In addition, remote sensing studies including photo-geological interpretation
over the Miyabi licence holdings were undertaken, to elucidate regional
structural controls on mineralisation and to help define drilling targets.
Soil geochemical and ground magnetic surveys were extended to cover the
northern Mwabomba licence. Sophisticated analysis of the magnetic data, such
as the image shown on the cover of this Annual Report, allows many subtle
structures to be recognised.

During the geological mapping of the Kakumbi licence, Twigg's geologists
collected nine "grab" samples from old workings at three locations in the
south-eastern part of the Kakumbi licence: Mwagi Magi North, "Saidi's pits"
and Lagunga. Six of the nine samples assayed more than 1g/t, with two values
over 15 g/t. A ground magnetometer survey of Kakumbi has just been completed
and the results show shears and other structures of interest.

MOZAMBIQUE
In Mozambique, a cluster of samples from the stream sediment reconnaissance
survey of the Namama Extension licence yielded anomalous nickel, including one
sample which contained in excess of 1% nickel. The exploration team also
discovered an extensive sulphide unit up to 10m thick which was traced along a
strike length of 7km. There is aeromagnetic evidence that it may extend for
more than 40km. The economic significance of the unit is not yet clear as
trenches across it have so far yielded only iron minerals, but its presence
shows that Twigg's geological hypotheses regarding the Namama licences were
valid. The Mozambique Government has awarded a six-month prolongation of the
Namama Extension reconnaissance licence to allow these results to be followed
up.

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL
The Board has agreed in principle to move Twigg's share listing onto AIM, the
Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, to take advantage
of AIM's generally larger investor base, greater liquidity and better access to
institutional investors. There has been a good level of interest from
institutional and other investors ahead of this proposed move, which is
expected to take place during mid-2002.

We believe that opportunities exist, both in our existing focus countries -
Tanzania and Mozambique - and elswhere in east and central Africa, to acquire
good new projects by merger, acquisition, or through creative alliances with
other exploration companies. Twigg's board is currently investigating a number
of such opportunities and we expect to make progress in this respect before the
move to AIM.

During the year 1,554,167 shares were placed and 2,061,572 shares were issued
on exercise of warrants, raising in total a net GBP361,780 for the Group's
exploration activities. The placings included 500,000 shares with Save and
Prosper Commodity Share Fund (now JPMF Natural Resources Fund), bringing that
Fund's total holding at the time to almost 5%.

POST-BALANCE SHEET EVENTS
In March 2002, Gold Fields Limited made an indicative offer to make an equity
investment of GBP500,000 in the Company, of which GBP400,000 will be directed
to the exploration of the Miyabi project and the remaining GBP100,000 will be
available as general working capital. Both Twigg and Gold Fields believe that
there is considerable upside potential at Miyabi and Gold Fields will be
granted the right to joint venture with Twigg, to evaluate and develop the
property if results over the coming months continue to be promising.

Gold Fields Limited was formed in 1998 by combination of the gold assets of
Gold Fields of South Africa Limited and Gencor Limited, and operates mines in
South Africa, Ghana and Australia. Attributable gold production is more than
4.5 million ounces per year, reserves are 85 million ounces and resources more
than 150 million ounces. Gold Fields is listed on the Johannesburg (GFI), NYSE
(GOLD), London, Paris and Swiss exchanges.

I am delighted that Gold Fields has chosen Twigg as its partner in Tanzania and
very pleased at the confidence Gold Fields has expressed in Twigg's management,
projects and operations.

In April 2002, the Company successfully completed a private placing of
1,845,200 Ordinary Shares at a price of 11p per share, raising an additional
GBP202,972 for the Company's exploration activities. The Company is pleased
that JPMF Natural Resources Fund subscribed for an additional 1,000,000 shares,
bringing the Fund's holding to 8.69% of the issued capital.

JOHN PARK
CHAIRMAN

[backwardation] 01/6/2002 11:47

Twigg Minerals plc - Final Results
Twigg Minerals plc Newstrack Announcements 31/05/2002

TWIGG MINERALS PLC

RESULTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2001

The Twigg Group consists of Twigg Minerals plc and its wholly-owned
subsidiaries Twigg Resources Limited in the UK and Twigg Gold Ltd in Tanzania.
The Group's consolidated balance sheet at 31 December 2001 and profit and loss
account for the year ending 31 December 2001 are appended.

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

Twigg's second annual report covers the year ended 31st December 2001 and
reflects a period of growth and consolidation for the Company. As one of the
most effective and cost efficient junior explorers in our field, Twigg continues
to put more than 80 pence of every GBP1 it spends into exploration,

showing our ability to operate successfully in Africa. These strengths were
recognised in early 2002 by Gold Fields, one of the world's biggest gold
companies, which agreed to invest GBP500,000 in the Company in return for a
right to enter a joint venture on the Miyabi project.

During 2001, we added to our Tanzanian licence portfolio through agreements
with local licence holders over new areas at Mwabomba (Miyabi), Kakumbi and
Zanzui. At Miyabi, we drilled an additional 78 holes with a total of nearly
5,000 metres. We continued to explore our projects in Tanzania through an
accelerated programme of geochemical and geophysical evaluation. In Mozambique
we have extended the tenure period of our Namama licence in order to follow up
geochemical anomalies and a significant sulphide horizon.

On the corporate front we held our first AGM in London and established a
Company share option scheme to provide incentives to our staff and management in
the UK and in Africa. We added to our operational strength through the

appointment of Chris Davies as Executive Director and John McDonald as
Exploration Manager, Tanzania. A placing to raise GBP200,000 in working
capital was completed in August and the board determined to take the company to
a listing on the AIM market during 2002.

TANZANIA
To date, 96 holes with a total of 6281m have been drilled at Miyabi. The
better intersections included 42m at 2.07g/t and 30m at 2.2g/t from Kilimani;
15m at 4.22g/t and 18m at 2.68g/t from Shambani, and 21m at 1.9g/t and 6m at
4.3g/t at Ngaya. Geological information yielded by the drilling showed that
although the mineralisation is related to shearing in all three zones, the
principal host rocks are quite different in each of the zones.

Using the limited drill results to date, the Company has been able to determine
an inferred resource of 140,000 ounces of gold, made up of 2,216,790 tonnes
grading 2.13g/t. The Directors believe that there is excellent potential to
extend this initial resource by further drilling.

In addition, remote sensing studies including photo-geological interpretation
over the Miyabi licence holdings were undertaken, to elucidate regional
structural controls on mineralisation and to help define drilling targets.
Soil geochemical and ground magnetic surveys were extended to cover the
northern Mwabomba licence. Sophisticated analysis of the magnetic data, such
as the image shown on the cover of this Annual Report, allows many subtle
structures to be recognised.

During the geological mapping of the Kakumbi licence, Twigg's geologists
collected nine "grab" samples from old workings at three locations in the
south-eastern part of the Kakumbi licence: Mwagi Magi North, "Saidi's pits"
and Lagunga. Six of the nine samples assayed more than 1g/t, with two values
over 15 g/t. A ground magnetometer survey of Kakumbi has just been completed
and the results show shears and other structures of interest.

MOZAMBIQUE
In Mozambique, a cluster of samples from the stream sediment reconnaissance
survey of the Namama Extension licence yielded anomalous nickel, including one
sample which contained in excess of 1% nickel. The exploration team also
discovered an extensive sulphide unit up to 10m thick which was traced along a
strike length of 7km. There is aeromagnetic evidence that it may extend for
more than 40km. The economic significance of the unit is not yet clear as
trenches across it have so far yielded only iron minerals, but its presence
shows that Twigg's geological hypotheses regarding the Namama licences were
valid. The Mozambique Government has awarded a six-month prolongation of the
Namama Extension reconnaissance licence to allow these results to be followed
up.

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL
The Board has agreed in principle to move Twigg's share listing onto AIM, the
Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, to take advantage
of AIM's generally larger investor base, greater liquidity and better access to
institutional investors. There has been a good level of interest from
institutional and other investors ahead of this proposed move, which is
expected to take place during mid-2002.

We believe that opportunities exist, both in our existing focus countries -
Tanzania and Mozambique - and elswhere in east and central Africa, to acquire
good new projects by merger, acquisition, or through creative alliances with
other exploration companies. Twigg's board is currently investigating a number
of such opportunities and we expect to make progress in this respect before the
move to AIM.

During the year 1,554,167 shares were placed and 2,061,572 shares were issued
on exercise of warrants, raising in total a net GBP361,780 for the Group's
exploration activities. The placings included 500,000 shares with Save and
Prosper Commodity Share Fund (now JPMF Natural Resources Fund), bringing that
Fund's total holding at the time to almost 5%.

POST-BALANCE SHEET EVENTS
In March 2002, Gold Fields Limited made an indicative offer to make an equity
investment of GBP500,000 in the Company, of which GBP400,000 will be directed
to the exploration of the Miyabi project and the remaining GBP100,000 will be
available as general working capital. Both Twigg and Gold Fields believe that
there is considerable upside potential at Miyabi and Gold Fields will be
granted the right to joint venture with Twigg, to evaluate and develop the
property if results over the coming months continue to be promising.

Gold Fields Limited was formed in 1998 by combination of the gold assets of
Gold Fields of South Africa Limited and Gencor Limited, and operates mines in
South Africa, Ghana and Australia. Attributable gold production is more than
4.5 million ounces per year, reserves are 85 million ounces and resources more
than 150 million ounces. Gold Fields is listed on the Johannesburg (GFI), NYSE
(GOLD), London, Paris and Swiss exchanges.

I am delighted that Gold Fields has chosen Twigg as its partner in Tanzania and
very pleased at the confidence Gold Fields has expressed in Twigg's management,
projects and operations.

In April 2002, the Company successfully completed a private placing of
1,845,200 Ordinary Shares at a price of 11p per share, raising an additional
GBP202,972 for the Company's exploration activities. The Company is pleased
that JPMF Natural Resources Fund subscribed for an additional 1,000,000 shares,
bringing the Fund's holding to 8.69% of the issued capital.

JOHN PARK
CHAIRMAN

[backwardation] 26/5/2002 22:12

Ooh my dear Ashley J....as ever you do amuse us !

[mr ashley james] 26/5/2002 22:11

Backwardation,

All precious metals are down in New York, I notice the panic stricken pump and dump routine as per usual.



Best regards

Ashley

[backwardation] 26/5/2002 21:55

If you haven't already....come and visit the real GOLD thread {TICKER=GOLD}....this new thread is for real GOLD BULLS !

[backwardation] 26/5/2002 21:30

GOLD HITS $400...London's Gold tiddlers SOAR on massive speculative buying !!! (GOLD)

Click here for related discussions
Backwardation - 26 May'02 - 14:33 edit


Just imagine this....impossible ?

Maybe/maybe not !!

The Real Professional Investor's {R.P.I's} see GOLD going to $350+ and just maybe even higher....$400+ !!!!

Many of the resource{s} stocks in London are just Speculative tiddlers, mostly quoted on AIM.

A lot of these resource{s} stocks are into Gold or more likely looking for it !

Some are quality stocks, whilst others are....

However, we strongly believe that if the price of Gold really does explode many if not all of these stocks will go on a very serious "Speculative Bull Run" taking their share prices to some amazing levels.....

Our Speculative Portfolio is as follows :-

1. Cambridge Mineral Resources Plc {CMR} - AIM listed.
2. Hereward Ventures Plc {HEV} - AIM listed.
3. Minco Plc {MIO} - AIM listed.
4. Twigg Minerals Plc {TWI} - OFEX listed.
5. Ormonde Mining Plc {ORM} - Dublin listed.
6. Greenwich Resources Plc {GRWA} - Fully listed.



Why not join in the fun {if you agree with this thread} and create your own Speculative Portfolio of 6 stocks....

And if you don't agree....still have your {constructive} say....

[backwardation] 26/5/2002 15:04

GOLD HITS $400...London's Gold tiddlers SOAR on massive speculative buying !!! (GOLD)

Click here for related discussions
Backwardation - 26 May'02 - 14:33 edit


Just imagine this....impossible ?

Maybe/maybe not !!

The Real Professional Investor's {R.P.I's} see GOLD going to $350+ and just maybe even higher....$400+ !!!!

Many of the resource{s} stocks in London are just Speculative tiddlers, mostly quoted on AIM.

A lot of these resource{s} stocks are into Gold or more likely looking for it !

Some are quality stocks, whilst others are....

However, we strongly believe that if the price of Gold really does explode many if not all of these stocks will go on a very serious "Speculative Bull Run" taking their share prices to some amazing levels.....

Our Speculative Portfolio is as follows :-

1. Cambridge Mineral Resources Plc {CMR} - AIM listed.
2. Hereward Ventures Plc {HEV} - AIM listed.
3. Minco Plc {MIO} - AIM listed.
4. Twigg Minerals Plc {TWI} - OFEX listed.
5. Ormonde Mining Plc {ORM} - Dublin listed.
6. Greenwich Resources Plc {GRWA} - Fully listed.



Why not join in the fun {if you agree with this thread} and create your own Speculative Portfolio of 6 stocks....

And if you don't agree....still have your {constructive} say....


Backwardation - 26 May'02 - 14:49 - 1 of 1 edit


Btw....this is not a RAMPING thread, it's a fun {but also serious} thread that is for dreamers....

And if you invest/punt/speculate on resource{s} stocks....you've got to be a bit of a dreamer !

AND DON'T FORGET THAT DREAMS DO SOMETIMES COME TRUE !!!!

GOLD HITS $400...London's Gold tiddlers SOAR on massive speculative buying !!! (GOLD)

Click here for related discussions
Backwardation - 26 May'02 - 14:33 edit


Just imagine this....impossible ?

Maybe/maybe not !!

The Real Professional Investor's {R.P.I's} see GOLD going to $350+ and just maybe even higher....$400+ !!!!

Many of the resource{s} stocks in London are just Speculative tiddlers, mostly quoted on AIM.

A lot of these resource{s} stocks are into Gold or more likely looking for it !

Some are quality stocks, whilst others are....

However, we strongly believe that if the price of Gold really does explode many if not all of these stocks will go on a very serious "Speculative Bull Run" taking their share prices to some amazing levels.....

Our Speculative Portfolio is as follows :-

1. Cambridge Mineral Resources Plc {CMR} - AIM listed.
2. Hereward Ventures Plc {HEV} - AIM listed.
3. Minco Plc {MIO} - AIM listed.
4. Twigg Minerals Plc {TWI} - OFEX listed.
5. Ormonde Mining Plc {ORM} - Dublin listed.
6. Greenwich Resources Plc {GRWA} - Fully listed.



Why not join in the fun {if you agree with this thread} and create your own Speculative Portfolio of 6 stocks....

And if you don't agree....still have your {constructive} say....


Backwardation - 26 May'02 - 14:49 - 1 of 1 edit


Btw....this is not a RAMPING thread, it's a fun {but also serious} thread that is for dreamers....

And if you invest/punt/speculate on resource{s} stocks....you've got to be a bit of a dreamer !

AND DON'T FORGET THAT DREAMS DO SOMETIMES COME TRUE !!!!

[backwardation] 26/5/2002 14:17

And don't forget OFEX listed, Twigg Minerals PLC {TWI}....

[sharestriker] 22/4/2002 20:45

Anyone taken up the offer or views would be gratefully received

[hyper al] 22/4/2002 18:54

A Professional Exploration Geophysicist would say that Twigg is an excellent exploration company and the same for MNT and HEV.

[hyper al] 22/4/2002 18:51

Backwardation

What's all this "Professional Investors" stuff?