RE: Mr Magic21 Aug 2024 22:59
Here is TORP (or Mr Magic's) 2nd to last post on ADVF* on 20 July 2021. π
Bell still runs the company the same. π€
"I see the same old shysters are still trying to pump this utter POS unscrupulously, desperate to lure in the gullible to boost their positions. It has been and will always be imho a total sucker share.
It simply moves from placing to placing to placing whilst Bell fritters away untold Β£millions on Admin and expenses. Hence there will rarely be shareholder value delivered imho.
Yearly Amounts Spent On Admin
2012 - Β£2,275,786
2013 - Β£4,751,948
2014 - Β£1,563,808
2015 - Β£1,334,404
2016 - Β£758,351
2017 - Β£644,688
2018 - Β£849,518
2019 - Β£591,777
2020 - Β£597,000
That's where much of the money disappears to. All it needs is gullible people to keep buying the "jam tomorrow" stories. I'm so glad I am no longer one of those gullible saps.
As well as placings the company just goes from one failed project to the next:
Greenland Project - spent millions and eventually sold it off for just Β£1
Shoats Creek Oil - Project failed and was written off
Steelmin Project - Went bust just after Bell loaned them another Β£1.1m
etc etc etc
Worse still the company began to engage in various loans and transactions which they failed to RNS to shareholders/markets.
RRR conducted loans and transactions with Amulet Diamonds that were not RNS'd. Shareholders discovered 5 months later in a small paragraph in the Annual Report Bell loaned a further Β£1.1m to the failing Steelmin project which he didn't RNS. Simply appalling.
Steelmin ceased operations in Sept 2018, RRR did not RNS this
Steelmin went into Administration Feb 2019. RRR didn't RNS this event despite RRR having a 22% stake in the business.
Frankly anyone who puts their cash into such a POS thoroughly deserves to lose their money. If loans and key events are not going to be RNS'd then I'd consider
that I was investing blind. There are surely better AIM companies to go at without such ridiculous problems.
DYOR"