scarborough minerals more than just a convict ship

Australian mining entrepreneur Robert de Crespigny is back....with fully listed Scarborough Minerals PLC....which will be his vehicle to create 'a 21st century mining finance house'.

A formidably tough operator who took gold miner Normandy from a sub £1 million value to £2 billion when he sold it to American giant Newmont in 2002, de Crespigny has chosen to base himself in the UK, near Oxford, and has put a variety of assets into fully-listed Scarborough Minerals PLC on the London SE

The company still has one of its old prospects, the 800,000-oz Sappes gold deposit in Greece. In addition, Scarborough Minerals PLC now has stakes in copper and mineral sands projects in Australia, Vostok Copper in central Asia and options on sizable mineral plays in Uzbekistan.