John Cornford

Photo-Me: Has the Sell-Off Been Overdone?

Photo-Me International (PHTM) has just announced the dividend increase for 2016 that investors had been expecting, with an 87% jump…

Sirius Minerals: an Update

AIM: SXX Shares in issue: 2,295m Market cap @19p: £436m Back in March I advised not to chase Sirius Minerals,…

Ready to Fire Up: Coal to Power Stocks

Progress of one sort or another is being made at all four of the coal to power projects (in Tanzania,…

Metminco – Getting out of Its Bind

Practically all miners saw their shares decimated between 2011 and 2015. Avocet, whom I covered last week, was an extreme…

Is the Avocet Spike All That It Seems?

Avocet Mining AIM:AVM 209m shares in issue Back in 2011 when I was contributing to a mining broker's newsletter -…

Atlantis Resources Is a High-Risk Punt in a Growing Sector

Atlantis Resources - AIM: ARL Market cap £66m @ 62.5p per share Master Investor is planning a series on "The…

Spring Round-Up: AAU, CNR, HRN, HUM, KEFI and PAF

As I hope readers realise, I'm not in the business of managing their investments. The ideas I put up are…

Shanta Gold: A Goldie for Steady Growth?

469m shares in issue Current mid-price: 7.4p £34.7m market cap When gold showed signs of recovery, the first gold miners…

It’s AIM that should get skewered, not private investors!

AsiaMet Resources (AIM:ARS) Well that was a spike if ever I saw one! And plenty of innocent lambs got skewered.…

More Notes from Underground

NPVs Revisited - Spikes and Weasel Words (Oxford's definition of  the latter: "an informal term for words and phrases aimed…