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Can't we send JimBL out there ?
Will be concluded, one way or the other, pretty speedily!
No can do Chirps, Jim’s in Warrawoona with his cork hat and didgeridoo.
As much as I have some sympathy with Jim's assertion we push for international arbitration or industrial appeal - those kinds of corporate legal actions do come with a sizable price tag.
IF that's the course of action we have to pursue, I would assume it will be handled when we are more self sufficient via the Utah cash flow.
As much as there's some dissent on Utah from some folks on ADVFN, I reckon there would be more dissent had we just liquidated the company and waved goodbye to our investment in its entirety.
Considering Shard allocates a sp value of only 0.21 for Utah, when do you propose we'd be 'self-sufficient' enough for that then?
The BOD paid for specialised legal advice previously on the Nayega tenure. I'd suggest the recent £1 million raised would be best spent on going toward arbitration (what else are they doing with it?) as there's literally no complexity now to such a claim and it's the best investment that could be made for a return. The Govt had intimated approval for 7 years. We've jumped through every hoop requested. They approved bulk sampling and issued a decree on the licensing award coming up to 3 years ago. The Pres continues to withhold his approval. Nothing legally difficult in arguing or proving that.
If there's some other legal reason why this isn't going forward then as I and others have asked for - we should be told what it is.
As for 'difficulty' of arbitration, I'll refer you to actual legal opinion on the matter, not BB one's.
https://www.international-arbitration-attorney.com/mining-arbitrations/
And potential costs
https://www.international-arbitration-attorney.com/icsid-arbitration-cost-calculator-2/
Jim - share price projections have literally nothing to do with self sufficiency. Self sufficiency is the ability to cover your running costs from operatonal profits, or the ability to leverage future cash flows / asset values.
Keras running costs are pretty low, but they are not going to be delivered from a 'propsective' Manganese mine. We were bleeding out.
Utah is in production NOW. It has a 60+ year mine life. It is positive future cash flow, and an asset that can be leveraged. Moreover, we have acquired a controlling interest for a loan that will be fully repaid. We will have cash flow from the loan repayments in the short term, some small profit in the short term, but 60 years of income against which we can leverage.
That the total value of the project may only be valued at £14m still represents a doubling of our capital asset value from today - but that is not as important as guaranteed cash flow at sufficient levels to keep the lights on - and maybe a little bit more for shareholder returns. Utah guarantees our future WITHOUT the need for further dilution OR going bankrupt.
There would not have been any other project that could start operating as quickly. Acquiring a flashy new gold, silver or lithium project at this juncture may have given a short term MCAP pump, but it would have been on no foundations - no cash flow, drill bit and exploration costs and therefore a catalyst for corporate insolvency.
I’ve never “burnt my bridges” in any of my business career, sadly now defunct!
However, you can never tell who or what links could transpire in any future opportunities that a company would get involved with!
So whilst it sounds plausible to want some legal action, I’d prefer we stick it out, till we have a statement of fact from the Togolese government!
We can then move forward, in a stronger position, for any likely claims for compensation!
PC
The Govt is not the problem. The President is. Minister's can be as nice as they wish and promise anything, but when we are reliant on the President and the President only to approve the license, then the rest of Togo's governance is redundant. Minster's obtain and retain their positions by appeasing the President, not by ruffling his feathers. That's how Dictatorship's work.
What 'statement of fact' do you ever therefore expect to see?
Thanks for sharing the arbitration costs, JIm, it supports my point. Almost $1m - that's not chip change for a junior/explorer with no income.
It's a bit easier for a company with in production with 60 years of income to leverage.
So why was close to £1 million raised if you think we have short-term profit potential, particularly as Utah already had a prestripped area with production drilling information representing 2 ½ years of planned production? That raising, 6 months ago, resulted in another 1.3 billion shares worth of dilution. Neither of those outcomes collaborate your comments here.
60 + years? " Keras deems the deposit to have considerable upside potential and states that the potential open pit resource (non code-compliant) could support a mine life in excess of 60 years. " Potential. Could. Non-code compliant.
You once again take these potentialities and present them as proven.
We don't know what the unit opex actually will be or is, nor do we know the unit selling price for this years hoped for 10,000t in sales. We don't even yet know how much the previous Yr 1 7.500t brought in. Indeed, the sales plan and margin/revenues remain notably absent from company releases.
Excuse me if I remain unimpressed.
It's a calculator, so the inputs are variable. I doubt very much this would take hundreds of hours or more of legal time as the case -as we know it - is as clear cut as can be.
That said and as I mentioned, we raised £1 million, 6 months ago. Ample funds to secure arbitration and the best use of it I can see in the short term.
Since you love trading in worst case scenarios, let's assume that the Utah phosphate project only lasts for 10 years. It still allows us to survive as an organisation.
Again, taking a worst case, non real life analogy (as Utah is cash generative):
How long would you last financially if you're running costs are £20,000 a year and you have zero income?
How much longer would you last if your running costs are £30,000 a year and you have £25,000 income?
Utah prevents us going bankrupt.
We'd never know how unimpressed you'd be if we didn't take on the Utah project as we'd no longer have a BB to discuss yet another liquidated explorer.
The £1m was not raised for costs of legal arbitration. There was a reason given for the raise in the RNS.
We do know projections of Opex and projected profitability in the Corporate Presentations. Yes, of course these aren't proven.
What will be proven - as we're a company in production, is the half yearly and yearly statements - one of which is due by the end of this month. If you were expecting more frequent updates on sales, then I'd question your prior investment experience/history.
Of course, these will be loss making in year 1 (as projected) however, it will demonstrate sales and revenue to compare to the projections in the Corporate Presentation.
PS - without the Utah asset, we'd not have successfully raised £1m.
Yet you remain permanently hopeful and always blue-sky minded. Why is that? Could it be anything to do with the size of your investment you've pumped into here since the float 10 years ago, hence you won't have a bad word said by anyone, anywhere?
I shudder to think what you've pumped into here to average down and be in a position to be in profit from the CAI disposal.
My personal position is pretty irrelevant to the sheer fact that the Utah project was an eminently sensible investment that any sensible junior explorer would have taken. Survive or die is a no brainer decision. A cash generator AND the repayment of your initial investment.
Who knows what I'm saying in fictional alternative universe land. Due to the actual real world success of Calidus, I could now afford for Keras to go bust like most explorers and juniors do, and still depart with a significant return on my investment - however, I am eternally grateful that the chances of that are significantly mitigated thanks to the Utah investment decision.
I think your position is entirely relevant to the posts you make and have made. You continued to buy no matter the circumstances or failures - and it was all downhill until Warawoona/CAI. 4 years ago you suggested you had 26 million shares, costing £102k.
No wonder you always sound rampy.
Let's just agree to ignore each other from now on.
No, let's not. Feel free to ignore my posts if you choose, but I will continue to post my reflected and considered thoughts on what you post.
I note you've decided to completely disregard the suggestion that we were Utah or Bust in your insistence it was a poor investment.
Not that it is really anyone's business but mine, but my total investment in Keras is considerably lower than £108k.
And that's my point. You think your posts are 'considered'. Yet all you do is continually support whatever happens and seemingly were happy to back that up with £108k of your money before CAI materialised. You kept buying no matter what occurred.
Those facts show, no matter what, you were happy to keep pumping money into this even as everything failed for one reason or another. So, your current thoughts on Utah prospects mean nothing to me.
So you don't respect that without the acquisition of Utah, we were on borrowed time and our investments would all have been worth the same? Zero? Good. Glad we got there.
"8 million in an ISA at 0.0054. 18m in a SIPP at 0.0036" So you claimed.
In anyone's maths that's £43,200 + £64,800 = £108k. Or are you just a bloater making it all up?
Utah means as much to me as the Tributes did and the acquisition has a similar outlook and reason for acquiring. Much was promised (enough to have you pump more in, considering you have also said you started here with only a £250 purchase) but the Tributes, in their-self, were a gross failure. Even the basic maths was wrong on ASIC meaning we couldn't ever have made money.
Funny. Even your pal over on ADVFN had previously commented that the company should fold if that didn't work out. We are still on borrowed time - which is why I believe initiating arbitration for Nayega would be more meaningful.
A bit of a hot mess of a post there. Jim, so I'll focus on the bit that is relevant and worth debate. Yes, we are on borrowed time, as all junior explorers are, and you only invest in them where you can afford to lose your head. With the high risk hope that you could make ludicrous money. Like the If poem by Rudyard Kipling. No one forces anyone over a barrel to invest.
The profile of Utah keeps us operational, it pays bills, it provides an asset that we can leverage for additional funding and to keep us in the hunt for Nayega.
Without Utah, we'd be facing a far shorter shelf life than we do by having an in production asset. It provides cash flow, it's in production, and so from a leverage perspective, here today, it's worth more to us than Nayega. It is the means to keep us in the hunt for Nayega. If and when that happens, the story changes.
Is this the first junior you've invested in Jim?
Yeah, you keep focusing on what you want to message rather than what you've previously claimed on here.