Tks v much for the chart view.
ipsofacto re 17.24
I guess death wish sums it up.
What i find scary is these are adults talking like this….in senior roles…..
Ipso
If it was the same kinda creeps that drowned a bunch of girls in cage for the same thing reason being the creeps wanted to take wives and they refused. The same reason other Muslim countries women even Muslim didn’t want them around so they went to Europe.
But then again not too much different than the so called Christians that burnt mostly women alive accusing them of being witches.
Is it Islamophobic?
Andrew Zebrun III
@Andyme77
(3) Hamas Atrocities on X: “Is it Islamophobic to say that in 2015, in Mosul (Iraq), ISIS burned 19 Yazidi girls alive, in a cage, while hundreds watched, because they refused to accept Islam as their faith?
Maya
Travel well and take care.
Maya
Have a good trip!
ferrett @ 5:36
“pools of oil”
Well that sounds easy to get. I’m surprised it hasn’t been developed before.
“Dipsticks in Canberra” LOL You’re very polite! 🙂
Cheers
Demand is still in place so who’s been shorting?
- High Delivery Volume: By the First Notice Day in March 2026, more than 10,500 contracts stood for delivery in silver, with demand exceeding 60% of all registered inventory in a single day, a trend putting immense pressure on physical supplies and affecting the broader precious metals market, including gold.
- Gold Market Strength: Gold has seen intense demand, with prices scaling past $5,000/oz in early 2026, driven by persistent buying from central banks and investors seeking a hedge against global economic uncertainty.
- Record Trading Activity: The 1-Ounce Gold contract (1OZ) posted its highest monthly average daily volume (ADV) and average daily open interest (ADOI) since its launch in March 2026.
- Concerns on Supply: The market has experienced extreme volatility due to the imbalance between high paper demand and limited physical supply in the March 2026 cycle.
Ferrett
Sounds like you got reserves everywhere.
Farmers can also make coal too. One of my elders made it and also had a conveyer belt that traveled it to a machine that turned it into powder. Farmers can use it by growing peaches. Profit off both the peaches and the pits turning the pits into coal. Here’s some info.
+5
Making coal (or more accurately, biochar/activated carbon) from peach pits involves heating dried pits in a low-oxygen environment (pyrolysis) to create a highly porous, adsorbent carbon material. Historically, this method was used to create gas mask filters during WWI. It creates a valuable, high-surface-area charcoal suitable for fuel, filtration, or soil amendments.
- Dry the Pits: Thoroughly dry the peach pits, as wet pits will not char properly.
- Pack the Container: Place the pits into a metal container (like an old tin, ammo can, or metal drum) and pack them tightly.
- Seal for Pyrolysis: Put a lid on the container, but ensure it has a small hole to allow moisture and gas to escape while preventing excessive oxygen from entering. This oxygen-free heating is critical, known as pyrolysis.
- Heat the Pits: Place the container into a fire pit, forge, or kiln for at least 4 hours. The goal is to heat them until they turn into charcoal without letting them combust into ash.
- Cool Down: Let the container cool down completely before opening it to avoid the charcoal igniting upon contact with air.
- Alternative Methods: A more advanced method is to use a 55-gallon drum retort to create larger batches of “lump charcoal”.
- Adsorption Activation: For creating highly activated carbon (for filtering), some methods involve treating the charred material with substances like lemon juice to increase pore size.
- Density Matters: Peach pits are ideal because they are very dense, creating a superior adsorbent material compared to lighter wood sources.
ipso, 0.28, it’s funny how things coincide.
When my farmer mate was telling me that things are moderately bad with the fuel, he mentioned that there used to be pools of oil at Moonee, not too far away. Farmers used to filter it put it in their trucks and tractors. He couldn’t remember why they had to stop, but we can guess. And then, an hour later, this pops up in the news feed:
https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-oil-reserve/c3952d81-23f7-4770-8eb2-bcc4d1def204
Canberra is our national capital, a swamp like place similar to Washington D.C.. Australia’s problem is that all the oil is on the NW Shelf, the Timor sea, Bass Stait and now the Taroom Trough, but all the dipsticks are in Canberra.
Travelling
I will be travelling & offline for a little more than a week. Should be back around 4/7/26.
Get the PMs back up there while I’m gone, will ya?!
Maddog 17:27
Yea could be considered a bullish hammer or a bullish dragonfly. Should be bullish either way. Ps sorry distracted. I have my own name for it.. long legged dragonfly doji. It might be short term as I made a short term target on one stock adding extra shares to buy sell then buy more on dips during non parabolic times.
ferrett
Glad to hear it!
ipso, slight exaggeration there.
Just checked with a mate in Chinchilla, the only Diesel problem is the price. Supplies are OK. Cattle are being moved around NSW and Qld ok, NSW is very dry so the stock is being moved to greener pastures in Qld and elsewhere. Yes, there are a few servos without Diesel, but a lot that are fine.
Willem Middelkoop
@wmiddelkoop
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Australian farmers are ‘out of diesel’
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Rob Smith
@Ausbobsmit
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I’m out of diesel. All the farmers are out of diesel. This is it. We’re done for. Albanese and Bowen are directly to blame. This is serious. I promise you. All other countries have diesel, and it averages $1.80 per litre in most countries in the Asia Pacific. But not Australia.
Maddog @ 17:24
I’m a little unclear on the incentive? Death wish?
maddog – that’s great news
if it’s a bottom, it happened sort of stealthily.
Hope it turns out that way.
No tengo oro
Wall Street Mav
@WallStreetMav
For the first time in human history, data show zero significant gold discoveries in two years. (2 million oz of gold in one deposit)
Gold is not the only metal that is having difficulty finding replacement reserves. Copper, silver, nickel, cobalt and other metals are all facing declining ore quality and smaller deposits.
Many of the best and easiest deposits were discovered long ago and have been mined for decades. The newer mines are generally smaller, lower quality ore, more remote and more expensive.
This is what we are seeing with many major mining companies. They are struggling to just maintain current production. Forget about actually increasing production.
The key issue for investing in mining stocks is finding the ones that can organically grow their production in the coming years.

buygold
goldielocks can interpret this chart…but it looks like a hammer bottom on a weekly chart and therefore quite powerful.
JPM CEO Dimon speaks up for the people.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Dimon: ‘Deeply frustrated’ with policies in America https://share.google/uelB1VTAi3wsR2TUF
Nice close
Pretty rare event today. Hope this is just the beginning of a new leg up toward $10K and $150.
We hit the numbers with $4500 and $70. Hope is alive again with the SM just beginning its descent.
Well, Sunday night might be interesting
Will the PPT jump into action or let things unravel a bit more? Will there be continued buying in pm’s or was this a one-off?
Good to see we haven’t collapsed at the end of the day, especially the shares. Huge surprise today.
For the first time in awhile, it feels like there are some cracks in the system again. I’m not sure how they paper over them this time.
Did I read here that Doug Burgum the Secretary of the Interior came back from Venezuela with $100 million in gold?
BTW – rates turned back up with the dollar and oil has quietly gone back above $100 – amazing we are still up at all. Course they’ve taken a chunk out of silver to try to close it below $70.

