RE: Old article16 Aug 2024 13:00
Hi addickt...
Just read the article and everything checks out with what I was told confidentially.
Including BS's 'volley' at DC resulting from DC's unauthorised 'spilling of the beans' to FNV befoe the Osisko deal had been finalised.
And the latter gels with the earlier incident that was not mentioned.
DC's 'lone ranger' act started wth the widely publicised failed 'cashbox' equity fundraise in July 2022.
An Oz based arm of Barclays was given authority to attempt such an exercise by the CEO. When the major shareholders found out they were not best pleased because it would have diluted their proportions.
This information got out into the City and it precipitated a halving of the share price in 6 weeks, not helped by Ingo's resignation and Ayten's termination.
Unsurprisingly the latter two had expressed strong reservations against the exercise, but it got some Board support so Ingo went.
When it very publicly failed, AS resigned, withdrew it and was sacked. Unlike DC she has never taken an action against the Company.
It seems significant that the Osisko deal on 7 November stabilised the SP which contiued to recover to almost 20p...shrugging off DC's termination.
The uncertainty and potential dilution arising from the proposed Cornerstone acquisition saw the SP fall some 25% to 13p but once it was completed, including Scott's appointment and Bob's statements about a bid, the SP recovered again to over 22 by April.
There being no follow through, the SP began a steady 10 month decline until it bottomed out sub 6p. Any potential recovery was stymied by the relegation from the MSCI Index which saw over 50 million shares sold in a couple of weeks.
Now it has stabilised and I believe the key announcements in the next couple of months will see it recover to at least 20p.
A final footnote.
I was never impressed with Liam. I had a one hour one to one with him in early 2020, during which he didn't seem to recognise the gross inadequacies of SOLG's corporate governance. It has since become known that major shareholders had also made representations about the shocking inadequacy of SOLGs corporate governance.
It took till 5 August 2020 for them even to contemplate according with the Code on Corporate Governance, which I had implemented in an AIM plc in 2006...!
And that was down to the company basically being run by LT, NM and Moller.
And yet even then fraud was discovered in 2022 leading to Jason's departure.
Solgold is in a much better place now. Scott has cleared the decks; there is a clear strategy; and we are finally moving towards what Nick wanted years ago...the sale of Cascabel, or indeed Solgold at £1 or more...