STRATEGIC MINERALS PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-16
Watchouts
Cash
£460K
+454.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£4M
+33.1% vs 2023
Employees
12
+9.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
+123.2% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The Company and Group forecasts that to have sufficient funds to meet all operating costs until 31 December 2026, the Company and Group is reliant on cash being generated from its magnetite revenue. The group does not have guaranteed revenue for the period to 31 December 2026 and the level of the group's future revenue and associated cashflow receipts cannot be determined with any certainty.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- STRATEGIC MINERALS PLC 2011-02-09 → present
- STRATEGIC MINERALS LIMITED 2010-11-16 → 2011-02-09
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,169,014 | £3,517,420 | |
| Operating profit | -£6,722,016 | £1,577,465 | |
| Profit before tax | -£6,732,394 | £1,563,380 | |
| Net profit | -£6,786,509 | £967,383 | |
| Cash | £83,024 | £460,341 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,076,353 | £4,427,724 | |
| Net assets | £2,766,494 | £3,681,245 | |
| Equity | £2,766,494 | £3,681,245 | |
| Average employees | 11 | 12 | |
| Wages | £300,222 | £486,286 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -575.0% | 44.8% | |
| Net margin | -580.5% | 27.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -218.5% | 35.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 43.5% | 38.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.15x | 0.51x | |
| Interest cover | -238.63x | 50.67x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Moore Kingston Smith LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The Company and Group forecasts that to have sufficient funds to meet all operating costs until 31 December 2026, the Company and Group is reliant on cash being generated from its magnetite revenue. The group does not have guaranteed revenue for the period to 31 December 2026 and the level of the group's future revenue and associated cashflow receipts cannot be determined with any certainty.”
Group structure
- STRATEGIC MINERALS PLC · parent
- Central Australian Rare Earths Pty Ltd 100%
- Iron Glen Holdings Pty Limited 100%
- Southern Minerals Group LLC 100%
- SMG Cobre LLC 100%
- Ebony Iron Pty Limited 100%
- Leigh Creek Copper Mine Pty Ltd 100%
- Iron Glen Pty Ltd 100%
- Cornwall Resources Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Post year-end, the Company raised gross proceeds of £1m through a share placement to accelerate development of the Redmoor Tungsten-Tin-Copper Project in Cornwall.”
- “Post year-end, CRL secured over £764k of matched grant funding investment from the UK Government, through its UK Shared Prosperity Fund, managed by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Good Growth Project.”
- “Post year end, the Company signed a non binding heads of agreement to grant a purchaser a call option to acquire LCCM.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 21 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARGIL MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2016-01-07 | — | — |
| BURNETT, Mark Robert | Director | 2024-09-01 | Oct 1987 | British |
| HAYDN-SLATER, Philip | Director | 2025-01-27 | Feb 1960 | British |
| MANNERS, Charles Patrick Ralph Sandys | Director | 2024-09-01 | Sep 1963 | British |
Show 21 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIFFITHS, Patrick | Secretary | 2010-12-08 | 2011-03-24 |
| INTERNATIONAL REGISTRARS LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2010-11-16 | 2016-01-07 |
| ANDERSON, David Mark | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2014-05-07 |
| BONTHRONE, Matthew David | Director | 2010-11-16 | 2012-06-26 |
| BORRELLI, Michael Alexander | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2012-06-26 |
| BORRELLI, Michael Alexander | Director | 2011-02-28 | 2011-04-04 |
| BROOME, Alan John | Director | 2015-07-02 | 2024-07-16 |
| CARDONA, George Spyridon | Director | 2012-03-26 | 2014-05-13 |
| FYFE, James Joseph | Director | 2012-05-30 | 2014-05-13 |
| GRIFFITHS, Patrick | Director | 2010-12-08 | 2014-11-19 |
| HARRISON, Jeffrey Mark | Director | 2018-02-07 | 2023-04-25 |
| HARRISON, Paul Louis | Director | 2012-05-30 | 2014-02-10 |
| HOBBS, Lyle Curtis | Director | 2014-05-07 | 2016-07-12 |
| MCINALLY, Julien | Director | 2014-05-07 | 2015-01-21 |
| PETERS, John | Director | 2015-01-21 | 2024-11-15 |
| PETERS, John | Director | 2014-12-24 | 2014-12-24 |
| SANDERS, Steven | Director | 2010-12-08 | 2013-04-19 |
| STEPHENS, Peter Francis Howard | Director | 2013-12-12 | 2014-05-07 |
| WALE, Peter Verdun | Director | 2016-07-12 | 2025-03-24 |
| WONG, Michael Andrew | Director | 2015-01-21 | 2015-07-02 |
| WONG, Michael Andrew | Director | 2014-12-23 | 2014-12-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 163 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-07-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-05-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-07-31 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-27 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-02-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-11-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-11-13 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-07-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-06-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-08 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-31 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 4
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+200.9%
£1,169,014 £3,517,420
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Cash
+454.5%
£83,024 £460,341
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Net assets
+33.1%
£2,766,494 £3,681,245
-
Employees
+9.1%
11 12
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Operating profit
+123.5%
-£6,722,016 £1,577,465
-
Profit before tax
+123.2%
-£6,732,394 £1,563,380
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Wages
+62%
£300,222 £486,286
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers