VSA Capital's CEO, Andrew Monk talks to Mark Bolton, MD of Panthera Resources PLC following the company's recent oversubscribed £2.77m fundraise and plans for the proceeds, plus an update to investors on next steps in the arbitration litigation.

The intrepid VSA Capital team has been back to South Africa for the annual Mining Indaba and as usual comprises our Dear Leader, together with his trusty team of Raks (Andrew Raca) and Ollie (Ollie O’Donnell). This year we have pushing the boat out with the VSA budget for entertaining and business development (although no boats were actually involved). The VSA Capital Trandem Those that know Our Dear Leader will know that he is a very active sportsman and extremely competi

Andrew Monk, CEO VSA Capital talks to Chris Evans, CEO of Winsome Resources regarding the company's recent fundraise and use of proceeds to secure a six month extension to purchase the Renard diamond mine, giving time to also secure a strategic partner.

Andrew Monk, VSA CEO talks to Steve Kesler, Executive Chairman and Interim CEO of CleanTech Lithium regarding the company's recent announcement about its Laguna Verde resource in Chile.

Andrew Monk, CEO of VSA Capital sits down with George Roach, CEO of Premier African Minerals following his site visit to PREM's Zulu lithium & RHA tungsten projects in Zimbabwe.

Our Dear Leader often feels the first week of January is a good time to travel as there is very little happening in the City and after Christmas he had no desire to celebrate the New Year. So he left for Zimbabwe on New Year’s Eve. We have various thoughts on why Our Dear Leader was in Zimbabwe: 1: To get a feel of how the UK will be like after 5 years of this Labour Government; 2: Because with his Zim Dollars he thought he was very rich and could have a great time (but act

VSA Capital's CEO, Andrew Monk talks to Mark Bolton, MD of Panthera Resources PLC to provide an update to investors on the progress of the arbitration litigation.

Our Dear Leader is now in Australia. Whilst on his travels, he nevertheless managed to agree and announce a landmark strategic partnership in the UK with Drakewood Capital Management Limited (“Drakewood”) . With offices in London, New York and Singapore, Drakewood is a leading investment manager bringing metal sector opportunities to institutional and other types of investors. VSA and Drakewood will support each other across commodities trading, commodity fund management and

Our Dear Leader is back on his travels; going east again to Hong Kong and Australia to meet with clients, foster existing relationships and make some new ones. As he is always fond of telling everyone, ideas don’t come out of screens, you have to get out there and meet people . Before Andrew had even set off, he had noticed a change in Hong Kong hotel rooms, which used to cost a small fortune for a tiny room and are now at least half the price so you can afford more room t

Our Dear Leader has left the delights of sunny Cape Town and now is in cold but still delightful, Toronto. The good news is that he has now got a replacement mobile phone and is being very careful to make sure no one steals this one. He is in Toronto for Pre PDAC and PDAC, which is the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and where traditionally junior exploration Companies present to raise money to go drilling in the summer. 30,000 people attend and there are ove

Our Dear leader is back again in South Africa for the African Mining Indaba and as usual taking Andrew Raca (Raks) and Ollie O’Donnell. He believes he has now attended 16 times and so is a rather old hand to this event and he suspects that this year maybe like most other years where half of London turns up to attend many parties and claim they are winning new business. The 'Renowned Sunday Night Party' was an unrivaled success with around 600 guests. Despite this experi

Our Dear leader has spent this week in Vancouver on his two week road trip with VSA client, Invinity Energy Systems (AIM and Aquis: IES). Before he arrived, he spent the weekend in San Francisco where he enjoyed some of the sights such as the Golden Gate Bridge followed by a trip to Sanoma Valley for some wine tasting. He also took the opportunity to do some washing at a local laundrette (laundromat) as this was the halfway stage and he has been travelling hand luggage only.

Our Dear Leader has once again ventured over to North America on a whistle-stop tour of numerous cities. This time he is marketing the importance and advantages of Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) and his favourite player within that space; Invinity Energy Systems (AIM and Aquis: IES). He has actually come up with a unique comparative story on why LDES is about to become massive and why flow batteries will be the big winner. There is a 20-page presentation available which

Our Dear Leader has retreated to his Cornish Lair to escape the "noise" of the Market and to consider the future of the investment banking and broking industry without distraction. He tells us that he needs to think about the last 20 years of de-equitization, the potential impact of AI on the industry and what the future for stock markets looks like and thus, the future of investment banking. These are big questions that are sometimes better thought through whilst walking al

Our Dear Leader has gone to Tel Aviv as his global travels continue searching for new Company ideas and pools of capital to try and offset the De-Equitization of the UK. He is worried that the FT30 may have to come back into use as there might not even be 100 stocks publicly listed to make up the FTSE100. Today the FT30 is known as the FT Ordinary share index but is rarely used. It was started in 1935 by the Financial News which later merged with the Financial Times, and it w

Our Dear Leader is on his travels again although this time he has been more secretive about his intentions. We know he is very unlikely to be “holidaying” as he just doesn’t do this and so he must have some cunning plans he is not ready to share yet, but he tells us that he is having success. We dare say all will be revealed at some stage. He did send us these photos from Dubai, so we think it’s fair to say that he did go there, and he sends us back these thoughts.

Our Dear Leader has gone to Toronto to be part of PDAC and the numerous sub events that take part pre PDAC. He describes PDAC like Dancing on Ice compared to Indaba which is Strictly come Dancing. The latter is full of glitz and glamour, whereas he tells us PDAC is just bloody cold! What we can’t work out from this is whether Andrew is Darcey Bussell or John Barrowman? He has taken the mining team with him, Paul and Ollie, now clearly acting as Torville and Dean, but they onl

Our Dear Leader is now completing his US trip in New York having been to Philadelphia (or Philly as it is known); the sixth largest City in the USA. More interesting perhaps to Andrew, knowing what a sports fan he is, is that Philadelphia hosts teams in the "Big Four" major sports leagues in North America. These major sports teams are the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL), the Philadelphia 76ers

Our Dear Leader is in the USA on an intrepid mission to drum up business for VSA and will be visiting St Louis, Boston, Philadelphia and New York. He tells us that in 2023 America will be the Land of Milk and Honey. We think that means he simply thinks there is a lot of money there and it could be headed to the UK, we don't think he is using the biblical meaning from Exodus, when God instructs Moses to lead his people, the oppressed Hebrew slaves of Egypt, out of bondage and

Although the Pandemic is over, our Dear Leader still seemed to disappear off on a course for the whole of the summer at his Cornish Lair. But he tells us that the summer is setting, and he has returned to a busy Autumn schedule. Busy with deals that we know he will have ingeniously cooked up whilst avoiding the bunkers. In addition, he has three major conferences planned this Autumn, two organised by VSA and a third which VSA is sponsoring and will be supporting in full. The