RE: over 2 months since last update on any activity16 Nov 2022 22:48
If one or two of my other investments start to grow (one did today) I will be leaving the environment of Red Rock forever, I was enticed back in a couple of summers ago when Bell was pumping the company in the presence of Tom Winnifrith during an online event called Mineprophets.
My reasoning was (wrongly) that Bell would be very silly to 'promise' certain value events to Winnifrith for fear of a backlash of gigantic proportions that only TW could deliver without delivery - not so, every claim Bell made at the time failed to materialise, no wonder TW backlashed last week suggesting that Bell has failed to sell just one asset/deliver and material dilution is just around the corner.
The fact is if you plough your money in here you are not investing in a well-regulated AIM company, you are investing in Andrew Bell lock stock and barrel. Bell holds all the cards - he is also protected by a layer of 'major shareholders' who see failure as acceptable and happily support him despite delivering no value for the best part of 18 years. How are they incentivised one asks, the last significant dissenter on this BB (a former TR1 holder in RRR) wanted a forensic audit, why?
One suspects there will be no material news-flow for the remainder of the year, the Congo cash is going the same way as everything else Bell has to do with - no-where, shareholders will never see it. The IPO of New Ballarat that was supposed to have happened this time last year will probably not happen for months and months ahead, if ever. It is noticeable that Paul Johnson at POW never mentions the JV anymore, he knows the situation and he knows Bell's record.
Then we have Elephant Oil, clearly, they are struggling to get the listing off the ground, who knows when/if it will happen, even so the 'value' it might bring to Red Rock has been eaten up by a £1m loan that Bell has took out (not RNS'ed BTW) with Prime Resources in June, that money has surely been used in its entirety.
As for Kenya gold, a JV or outright sale Bell puffed up in Q1 - simply an oasis in the desert, it will never happen., Bell likes telling stories you see.
The rest of Red Rock - a hotch-potch of projects that are figments of Bell's imagination, a bit like his Twitter posts which should be read to give prospective investors a flavour of who they are dealing with, go on read them, talk about contrarian viewpoints - he seems to support Putin as an example.
So what now, well a placing or funding round has to be imminent, will it be large or small, one thing for sure the Red Rock treasury is nearly barren - a BOD of Andrew Bell, Scott Kaintz and Alex Borelli - what a dream team NOT !
Over and out for now.