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Golden Prospect - Mining focused merchant bank

November 2005

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  • Epic Code:
  • GOL
  • Price:
  • 44.75p
The front page of the Financial Times on 24 October highlights how investment banks have made terrific gains from the commodities boom. One emerging pure play in the sector is AIM-listed Golden Prospect (GOL; 44.75p), albeit not by its original design. The group was set up some years back by former stockbroker and FT journalist Malcolm Burne, as an investment company in the mining sector with some oil & gas interests. The problem with that business was a persistent discount to net asset value and a clear succession problem so Burne finally threw in the towel on that strategy. The turning point was the acquisition in 2004 of Ambrian Partners, a private company founded in 2002 by Tom Gaffney, a former director of metals & mining at ...

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