RE: How can anyone hold shares in this......24 Oct 2019 13:52
and this is the reply i got back on 17/04/2014
Thank you for your email.
I cannot comment on your note regarding the Greenland deal, as that would be price sensitive. However we would not have held back any relevant information, so you can be sure that we announced instantly. It is not correct that the investors ‘would not be able’ to complete the transaction. It may very well occur. Of course we have been talking to other parties, and this effort has naturally stepped up a gear.
Regarding the Ivory Coast…What Red Rock does best is add value to assets via exploration. We need new projects for our pipeline………….and it is 3 or 4 years since we had one. We are aware of course that shareholder sentiment hasn’t always been good during the last year or so due to the lower share price, and we have tried our hardest to improve this. Unfortunately many things are out of our control. We had a well-founded expectation that the Greenland deal would complete. And of course it still might. But in the absence of an assurance on this, we cannot stop all activity and wait for a deal to complete – particularly in a market such as this which can see transactions move extremely slowly.
We have to keep the business running, keep doing what we do best, and continue to improve the quality of our portfolio. Colombia is in good shape, with further exploration work planned. Kenya is in the latter stages of exploration. Adding further value to these assets is a slower and more capital-hungry process than taking on something new where we can add value relatively quickly. I guess you could say it’s like insurance for the future. People are anxious to see the share price to go up in a hurry – I’m not sure when or whether that will happen, but by increasing the number of ways in which our share price could possibly be given cause to go up, then that is in the interests of our shareholders.
As to the issue price of shares, all is relative. Before Jupiter delisted we issued shares – at 0.66p – for nearly 8m Jupiter shares at 5.6c. The RRR price has halved. The JMS price rose 45% before delisting. And the published NAV is 21.3c now. so was it good to issue RRR shares so cheap? It seems so.
Likewise, if the assets we pick up are really cheap – because of the market – then it is all right to issue shares at today’s market price. There is no dilution in asset backing.
I hope this helps to answer some of your concerns over the Ivory Coast project.
Kind regards,
Natasha