Time to deliver - some history !16 Aug 2025 22:46
Re MTL, I guess no-one knows that I was a small cog in the wheel of the Shareholder Action Group back in 2020 that 'saved' the company being taken out for peanuts, circa .75p a share, by the two largest shareholders (one being Nick Candy), the result, new management were put in place that brought the mine to major profitability following many years of production issues, circa £150m of debt was repaid, now the company is cash rich, share price 1p to 14p.
The outstanding performance of MTL had nothing to do with TL, he was appointed purely as a result of them needing a number of UK based Non Exec Directors for governance issues.
I was also a part of the requisition request at Stratex (now Oriole) back in Q3 2017 which lead to the removal of the then CEO, due to a 'technicality' part of the requisition failed on the day leaving certain individuals in place. As a result of this 'drama' Livesey and Smeeton were appointed in 2018, all of the old BOD retired, except one. I will leave the story there !!
The new 'team' made many claims during promotional events in London in H2 2018, assuring the shareholders they would restore value (at the time of TL's appointment in May the SP was circa 1p) Certain members the requisition party met management periodically making it clear the priority was to restore value by many multiples, most of the then shareholders were in at prices 2p/3p/4p+ As we all know it never happened, the share price is now .20p (even reached .07p) shares in issue have increased 8 fold.
The reason for this post is to 'come clean' so readers can judge my commentaries on ORR fairly, I have significant experience in London listed junior mining space. I am not happy with the situation here, I believe the company needs material change, the current BOD are IMO 'stale' and lack ability to deliver value, the new CEO appointment totally dumbfounded me, oh BTW where is he ?? Judging by other posters comments, some with sizable positions, it is clear that there is an ever increasing level of discontentment building, quite rightly too.
Now is the time for the low performance BOD to step up, there has never been a better time as Lanstead are out, the two year onslaught of selling has ended. Management need to bang their heads together and work a way to deliver significant shareholder value, it needs to be via a corporate event, no other means will cut it. In my view they have 2 to 3 months to step up, if not pressure needs putting on the company via various means, the good news is shareholder activism can and has delivered results quite recently elsewhere.
For clarity I have ADDED to my position here as market dynamics suggest to me that the shares are technically cheap, I also believe the BOD are aware of growing discontentment which should stimulate action, when the chips are down usually management step up.