charlesrb
03 Nov 2017
Re: Buying pressure I noticed yesterday regular purchases of 10,000 shares. Same again today. All adding to the buying demand.
PinkyPerkins
03 Nov 2017
Re: Buying pressure News recently on the approval of Surface Rights have given this stock some heat.. IMHO I think this is undervalued and we should see strong increases..
velocipede
03 Nov 2017
Re: Buying pressure Yes, Barchart.com has now posted a "buy" with a "strongest short term outlook". It's about time this one stirred itself....
Hobnob34
03 Nov 2017
Buying pressure Something has triggered a buying spree and it started just before close yesterday. Could it just be expectation of the feasibility study?
sage in the hills
20 Oct 2017
Re: RNS - EIA approved Yes, but is the funding place to do it on the scale required ?....will there be a placing to fund in a RNS very soon ?SAGE
Tatty
20 Oct 2017
RNS - EIA approved Good news - so presumably they can crack on with it soon?
sage in the hills
14 Oct 2017
Re: Of great interest The city of Paris is to ban all petroleum-based vehicles on its territory by 2030 and prohibit diesel cars as soon as 2024, sending fresh shockwaves through Europe’s stunned motor industry.The extremely tight timetable pre-empts France’s drive to end sales of the internal combustion engine by 2040, and shows just how quickly the electric revolution is shaking up the old order. It underscores the mounting business risk facing those car producers still betting that petrol and diesel models are here to stay.“It is a credible and sustainable trajectory,” said Christophe Najdovski, the Green deputy-mayor of Paris. “We’re planning to press ahead with the end of fossil-based vehicles because quite simply we’re running out of time. The climate cannot wait.”Mr Najdovski said a twelve-year transition is ample time for the car industry to adjust. “We are trying to get ahead of the process. It is perfectly doable,” he said.ADVERTISINGBehind the French push is a hard-headed calculation by President Emmanuel Macron that his country has a chance of seizing European leadership in a lucrative new industry, vaulting ahead of German producers caught off guard by the speed of change.The Renault-Nissan Alliance is already the world leader with sales of 460,000 electric vehicles, led by the Nissan Leaf - manufactured, as it happens, in Sunderland. “The vehicle of the future will be an electric, connected, autonomous car,” says Carlos Ghosn, the Alliance’s chief executive.Ian Fletcher, an expert on the European car industry at IHS Markit, said one must read the legal fine-print of the Paris ban before judging the real implications.“I am always wary when people talk about electrification because it can means no many things, But this is a significant step,” he said.Mr Fletcher said the French government is systematically pursuing an industrial strategy in favour of electric vehicles: backing research; retraining workers; and helping to retool component suppliers.“The Germans have been late to the party. The French think they can establish leadership in the market. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is very well-placed,” he said.Europe is racing to keep up with China, which is pushing a drastic plan of electrification and threatens to dominate the new technology. China is already the world’s biggest market for electric vehicles, and its lead is growing. The target is to produce 7m electric and hybrid vehicles a year by 2015, capitalizing on China’s edge in lithium battery output - an area neglected by the Europeans. Electric carsThe trajectory of electric vehicle sales is astonishing, but it is China that is running away with the prize CREDIT: INSIDECLIMATE NEWSAs of 2019, each company selling cars in China must meet a zero-emission quota of 10pc, rising to 12pc in 2020. Those that cannot do so will face fines or have to buy ‘EV-credits’ from rivals - likely to be Chinese producers.The industry ministry is drafting plans for a prohibition of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, an ominous development for OPEC oil producers counting on Asia to boost long-term crude demand.The Chinese know they cannot match the sophisticated combustion engines of Western carmakers in the near future, but they can outflank them by shifting to an electric drive-train and shaping the market by regulatory fiat.China's strategic drive will become an increasing threat as the cost of electric vehicles falls to petrol parity by the early 2020s, eliminating the need for subsidy. The risk for the traditional carmakers is that China could do to them what it has already done to German solar companies: wipe them out.The French aim to head off this danger. The country is already Europe’s biggest market for electric vehicles, thanks to subsidies of up to €6,000, or €10,000 where the switch replaces a diesel model that is over ten years old.German producers are scrambling to make up lost ground and will prove formidab
sage in the hills
14 Oct 2017
This should help.... This will help secure Lithium as the battery material of choice, full charge in 5 minutes...www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41523653"To make their batteries, the Rice team used carbon derived from asphalt that was mixed with graphene nanoribbons and then coated with lithium metal.Prof Tour said the manufacturing process behind this new approach was simpler than earlier techniques it had developed for making fast-charging batteries.The Rice team has put prototype batteries through hundreds of cycles of charging and discharging to ensure the technology is stable.This testing also revealed that the batteries were less likely to suffer the build-up of structures called "lithium dendrites" that can gradually spread through a device limiting its life."TB26 post at CadenceSAGE
sage in the hills
14 Oct 2017
Of great interest ......get your marketing and sales going boys ! ....[link]
sage in the hills
03 Oct 2017
Complete summary Detroit Rolls Ahead On Electric Vehicles -- WSJ03/10/2017 8
2amDow Jones NewsGM (NYSE:GM)Intraday Stock ChartToday : Tuesday 3 October 2017Click Here for more GM Charts.Mike Colias This article is being republished as part of our daily reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S. print edition of The Wall Street Journal (October 3, 2017).Detroit's largest auto makers ramped up plans for electric vehicles in coming years, the latest push from traditional car companies to respond to tougher emissions regulations and the prospect that some markets across the globe could eventually ban internal combustion engines powered with fossil fuels.General Motors Co. plans to introduce two more electric vehicles in the U.S. over the next 18 months and 20 globally within six years, the nation's largest auto maker by sales said Monday. At the same time, crosstown rival Ford Motor Co. said it had formed a new team to help direct investments toward new electrified vehicles expected in the next several years. The Detroit-based group, called "Team Edison," will explore partnerships with suppliers and other companies, the auto maker said.The auto makers are investing billions of dollars in electric vehicles despite challenges turning a profit on them due to expensive technology costs that increase vehicle prices, and tepid consumer demand. GM and Ford are currently minting profits in the U.S. with fuel-thirsty pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles that consumers find enticing amid low gasoline prices.Electric vehicles account for less than 1% of U.S. sales, and a sliver of the nearly 90 million sold around the world. Infrastructure challenges remain, with additional charging stations needed to keep vehicles powered and avoid stranded motorists. Investors have bid up shares of Tesla Inc., pressuring traditional car companies, but the Silicon Valley electric-car maker consistently loses money.Still, countries including China, the U.K., France and India have signaled plans to ban sales of vehicles powered with gasoline or diesel fuels in the coming decades. The head of California's Air Resources Board recently suggested the state could follow suit. That is on top of burgeoning negotiations among California, Trump administration officials and car executives over potentially relaxing tough future emissions standards that require companies to sell vehicles getting better mileage.The upshot is car executives, even while highlighting challenges with market demand and lobbying for regulatory changes, are increasingly sounding bullish on electric cars and, in some instances, echoing statements from government officials."General Motors believes the future is all-electric," said Mark Reuss, GM's product-development chief, at the auto maker's suburban Detroit design center. He said GM's future electric vehicles would be profitable without further explanation.GM's lineup will continue to offer hybrids and traditional vehicles reliant on gasoline and diesel fuels during what the company expects to be a prolonged transition to those predominantly running on batteries, Mr. Reuss said.GM said it would use the underpinnings of the Chevrolet Bolt electric car currently on sale for coming vehicles in the U.S., though declined to discuss further details of their makeup. The auto maker also said it has developed a next-generation battery system that will allow for greater flexibility in electric-vehicle sizes and body styles in coming years.GM said it would do more to expand the availability of charging stations to help spur consumer demand for electric vehicles, but didn't peg an investment amount or disclose specific plans. Volkswagen AG, stung by an emissions-cheating scandal, has begun investing in charging stations around the U.S. and expects to offer 50 electric vehicles by 2025. Tesla already has thousands of charging stations in its home country and elsewhere.The mark
sage in the hills
25 Sep 2017
...and digest this too...serious business... [link]
sage in the hills
23 Sep 2017
Time to digest From Sat ADVFN news feed...."Though not unexpected, China's announcement brings two things to the EV battery industry it sorely needs: certainty of demand (albeit compulsory) and scale. Global battery production is expected to double in the next five years. As down-payment on its plan to lead the world in energy storage devices, China will add 120 gigawatt-hours of annual battery production capacity by 2021. That's three times the output of Tesla's Gigafactory. VW Group board member for research and development Ulrich Eichhorn told Automotive News the company will need more than 200 gigawatt-hours worth of batteries by 2025 to meet its goals.Now sooner than later, China's mandates will push the market price of batteries below the $100/kWh threshold at which -- thereabouts, all things equal -- an EV design attains cost-parity with an internal-combustion vehicle. After that, Katy bar the door.The other skunk at Daimler's picnic was Dieselgate. Two years after clean-air investigators discovered emissions-cheating software in VW Group products, affecting 11 million vehicles world-wide, the scandal and public ire has become general. In remarks from the stage, Daimler AG chairman Dr. Dieter Zetsche pushed back on growing sentiment in Europe to restrict diesel vehicles if not ban them altogether. "It's a fact that it's worthwhile to improve modern diesel engines rather than to ban them," Mr. Zetsche said. "That is why Daimler has invested 3 billion euros in the further development of our diesel engines."With respect, that is a bit post-hoc: It's the 3 billion euros already spent that makes it worthwhile, not the other way around. Even the Project ONE raised an eyebrow.In any event, Mr. Zetsche will have to take it up with the people and parliaments of Europe. In two years, diesel's market share has fallen by 8%. In the home court of Germany, sales fell 14% in August from 2016. Madrid, Paris, and Athens have announced diesel bans to combat urban concentrations of NOx and particulates, coming fully into force by 2025. Even Daimler's hometown of Stuttgart wants to brush the city's famous soot from its shoulders."SAGE
forwardloop
08 Sep 2017
summary [link]
charlus
07 Sep 2017
Price Drop would appear to be as a result of Cadence Minerals selling about half their stake in BCN (about 8.9M shares) for £6.3 M representing a 75% profit on their investment. As Cadence still hold about 10% of BCN they clearly still hold the faith.Therefore could be viewed as an excellent buying opportunity.GLA Chozza
ybhere
25 Aug 2017
Re: Can we have some news? Thoroughly agree tatty,If the Chines can build an airport in no time at all, what's the holdup?The Hanwa Group have agreed to take 100% of the Sonora Project lithium, hopefully they'll be able to influence developments to move up a gear or two.YB
