STARVEST is an investment vehicle that typically invests £100,000-£150,000 in early stage companies, of which 78% is in the natural resource sector which the board believe offers a considerable growth opportunity over the medium to long term.

RED ROCK RESOURCES is a company focused on exploration for manganese, uranium, iron ore and gold. Its focus is on a potential world class manganese project in Zambia that could be fast tracked to production in the short/medium term. Its board has recently been strengthened by the appointment of Michael Nott who has many years experience of exploration and mining in Zambia.

REGENCY MINES is an exploration company focused on exploring for copper and Nickel in Western Australia, Queensland and Papua New Guinea. The initial preliminary exploration project for nickel in Papua New Guinea looks particularly interesting. The tenement portfolio includes a number of projects in Western Australia and Queensland that includes extensive areas of mineralisation, some of which have returned high grades.

GREATLAND GOLD is an exploration company with three properties in Tasmania and Western Australia. The principal asset is the Firetower project in Northern Tasmania. Drilling has commenced to increase the resource estimate and upgrade its resource category. This project covers rocks equivalent to the MT Read sequence which holds the world class base metal deposits of Mt Lyell, Hellyer, Rosebury and the large Henty gold deposit of 1.1Moz. The Warrentina project located in northeast Tasmania contains three historical goldfields worked from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Modern exploration has been limited to stream sampling, but follow up work has been limited despite encouraging results.

LONGSHIPS PLC Longships has been formed for the purpose of investing in strategic and special situations and providing the opportunity of acquiring an unquoted company/(ies) or business/(es) seeking a public quotation. The Directors have established the Company with a view to offering Shareholders the opportunity to benefit from a focused special situation approach, applied by a team with considerable fund management and investment experience.