RE: Another letdown?19 Jun 2023 13:15
In companies like Arc it seems the best thing to do is look at the track record (past actions and present actions) of the management. NvS was regarded by many as a failure at Bumi, and his communications here at Arc speak for themselves. My personal goal in future investing is simply to avoid ever putting money into companies with any association with two people, and NvS is one of them. Hence I wouldn't go near Orosur Mining, and having watched their shares collapse in price, I'm glad I didn't. Arc may well be worth a small flutter in the future, but for me it will have to go a great deal lower. I think 50m for a company which has no quantified assets and has struggled for years to get a JV off the ground is simply too high a valuation. It MAY turn out really well for those who invest at 3p, but I personally see a lot more risk to the downside from here, since most juniors with no proven reserves appear to be worth in the 10-15 million pound range, not 50m and the Tingo holding seems to be worth very little now. I hope everyone invested here makes a lot of profit, but any success looks to me to be a long way in the future, and highly uncertain. You only need look at miners like Eurasia to see how badly things can collapse, even with significant proven reserves which Arc certainly does not have.