Andrew Bell's quick Q & A session17 Jun 2018 16:18
Question 1: "Is Red Rock's 22% stake in Steelmin a set in stone 22%? Which means if Steelmin raise further funds can Red Rock's 22% in Steelmin get diluted?"
Andrew Bell answers: "there is anti-dilution protection against all current instruments outstanding. Not future issues if any"
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Question 2: "with Steelmin we only know 22% is owned by RRR. Do we know exactly how many Steelmin shares RRR own?"
Andrew Bell answer: "Ha. There is a historical reason for that. The agreement was to issue us percentages of fully diluted capital. The mgmt had committed to cancel certain existing conversion rights, which they were doing slowly. And some shares were issued to the lender that took our loan out, and our interpretation, was that our protection extended to that dilution. The initial issues of shares to us to give us our correct percentage gave us short measure. We had to put our points firmly and I'm glad to say the principles were accepted. So we could state percentage, but didn't have a final share number, at point where we announced. The number of shares will be stated in our AR and no doubt our website"
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Question 3: "You do seem to take great risks investing in undesirable countries. For example for many years Kenya was in the bottom 3 of the most uninvestable places in the world. Likewise many other companies wouldn't even consider investing in Congo. I do understand great risks, great rewards but isn't the risk too great for smaller companies to invest in those countries?"
Andrew Bell answers: "when we went in Kenya's risk not considered bad. Later it fell on the Fräser Institute table: but beware of reading too much into that, there was still v little going on in country in mineral sector and I wd suggest only a handful of respondents (with 1 or 2 long-standing issues so I think manipulated result). Kenya isn't bad; our area had a business-minded MP, so we were unlucky there for a while. Let me say it again, Kenya is in general a good place to do business"
Andrew Bell also answers: "understood re Congo, but legally and in terms of regularity and predictability Congo has taken a step forward. There are reasons we have taken a long time on DD - far longer than expected - and a main one is we want to plan out risk to the extent feasible. Cobalt comes from Congo (most of it in fact) , copper too. If there is a huge rich opportunity one might take limited risk. Or one might trade the opportunity on.
As you say, minerals aren't always in the most developed countries. I hope we have a balance and a spread and we avoid heavy capital commitments especially in higher risk countries"