another quick question, page-3

The market price for zinc over the last 12 months is trending downwards and is now drifting under the $1.00 support level. How far will this deteriorate.
Stock holdings of the product continues to rise. How high will these rise.
Obviously the demand for zinc is on the delcine.

In the short term this does not go well for AIM's share price. It would suggest that the market is now awaiting to see if the oompany has the capacity to mine the product and then at what cost, and then what price will they get for the product.

With the completion of the Games in China, one wonders what lies ahead. Will they take a breather, and reassess there future development. If they decide to put the brakes on and slow down the growth they have been experiencing, this in combination with the US economy suffering withdrawal symtoms, does not go well for the commodity stocks.

It would seem that the smaller resource companies that rode on the shirt tails of the resources boom are now being scrutinised and found out for what they really are. Most have no funds to take their stories to the next level, and in many cases are just stories. Also they are riddled with entrepreuers that have no mine management/development personel. The lareger organisations such as BHP etc continue to amalgamate and grow, and due to long term contracts in place will make the overall materials graph look OK.
However the punter is not interested in a good story anymore, he has too much info and as a result the specy market is taking a huge hit and will continue to do so.

AIM may have just lifted itself to the top end of the spec market but it needs to show continued steady progress towards production. Of late it has been demonstrating that the company is now transparent and what you see is what you get.
There is a monumental shift happening in the world of finance and for the small punter, spare loose change for the specy end of the stock market is drying up. Major players have taken positions, hence volume turnovers for the punter/trader have gone.
There are those that will want to dispose of stock holdings through necesscity, and those that will dig in for the long haul.
In my opinion it will now be a long road back to the heady share price AIM experience in the good times.
It will happen, but it will take to the first half of 2010 before any substantial SP increase occurs.