Registered Office:
6th Floor
60 Gracechurch Street,
London, United Kingdom, EC3V 0HR

Directors
Brian Rowbotham (Non-Executive Chairman)

Qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte and Touché and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Early City career included roles at Save and Prosper and F&C Management Ltd. Brian joined Teather and Greenwood in 1997 and was involved as partner and then Finance Director in the company’s flotation on AIM and subsequent move to the Official List. He ran his own consultancy specialising in turnarounds and start-ups until joining Hichens, Harrison & Co plc in January 2005. Hichens Harrison was sold to Religare Enterprises in May 2008 and Brian subsequently stepped down from its Board in October 2008 remaining as a consultant. He holds a number of other board positions.

Charles Vaughan (Non-Executive Director)
Charles has worked in equity capital markets since 2009. His focus has been in broking and raising capital for natural resources companies from institutional investors in London. He has worked at a senior level for a City stockbroker, two Canadian investment banks and a specialist mining advisory partnership.

Gavin Burnell (Managing Director)
Gavin has been directing growth companies through formation, funding rounds, flotation and sale for 19 years with a focus on natural resource entities and is a founding director of several private and public companies having significant experience of the UK public markets.

Substantial Shareholdings:
Number of Ordinary Shares Percentage
Gavin Burnell 51,289,998 29.54 %
Smith & Williamson Nominees Limited* 43,980,705 25.33%
The Bank of New York (Nominees) Limited 32,672,501 18.82%
Huntress (C1) Nominees Limited 20,916,666 12.05%
Jim Nominees Limited 7,400,000 4.26%
Neil McLeod** 6,053,061 3.48%
Brian Rowbotham 6,081,666 3.5%
Charles Vaughan 4,400,000 2.53%

*includes 43,980,705 ordinary shares held on behalf of Gavin Burnell

**of the above 6,053,061 shares, 4,053,061 shares are held in the personal name of Neil McLeod with 2,000,000 held in the name of Deeside Consultants Limited


Number of Securities in Issue:
173,602,222 Ordinary Shares of 0.1p each

Percentage of shares in public hands:
35.97% of shares are in public hands 


Corporate Governance Statement
The Directors are committed to maintaining high standards of corporate governance, and, so far as is practicable given the Company's size and nature, to comply with the QCA Code.

Description of Investment Strategy
The Company was incorporated on 15 March 2007 to take advantage of opportunities to invest in or acquire a company or companies or businesses or assets in the natural resource sector. The Directors intend to fund such investments or acquisitions using a mixture of cash, equity and/or debt and intend to actively monitor them following a transaction.

Outstanding instruments convertible into securities:
17,000,000 warrants to subscribe for ordinary shares at 1p per share until 1 June 2027. If all warrants are exercised it will result in 8.9% dilution to ordinary shareholders.

Regulatory Announcements:
28 Dec 2023 Interim Results 30 Sep 2023
2 Nov 2023 Notice of AGM
29 Sep 2023 Final Results to 31 March 2023
9 Mar 2021 Notice of AGM
4 Sep 2020 Notice of AGM
3 Jan 2020 Half year results to 30 Sep 2019
30 Sep 2019 Result of AGM
5 Sep 2019 Final Results 2019 and Notice of AGM
8 April 2019 Directors shareholdings
12 March 2019 Directors shareholdings
2 Jan 2019 Interims to 30 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 Notice of AGM
3 Sep 2018 Final Results to 31 Mar 2018
29 Dec 2017 Interim Results
4 Oct 2017 Director shareholding
29 Sep 2017 Result of AGM
7 Sep 2017 Final Results to 31 March 2017
31 May 2017 Issue of Warrants
26 May 2017 Director Shareholding
3 Jan 2017 Half year report
1 Sep 2016 Final Results to 31 Mar 2016
4 Jan 2016 Half year report
27 Oct 2015 Result of GM
2 Oct 2015 Notice of GM
1 Oct 2015 Result of AGM

Annual Reports & Circulars:
31 Mar 2023 - Annual Report 2023
31 Mar 2020 - Annual Report 2020
2020 - Notice of AGM
31 Mar 2019 - Annual Report 2019
2019 - Notice of AGM
2018 - Notice of AGM
31 Mar 2018 - Annual Report 2018
2017 - Notice of AGM
31 Mar 2017 - Annual Report 2017
06 Sep 2016 - Form of Proxy
2016 - Notice of AGM
31 Aug 2016 - Annual Report 2016

Articles of Association
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Advisers:  
Corporate Adviser Optiva Securities
   
Auditor Pointon Young
   
Bankers Barclays Bank Plc
   
Registrars Share Registrars
   
Secretary B Harber

Contact:
0207 2644 546 - info@hot-rocks.co.uk



(Incorporated in England with Registered Number 06163193)