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MF, ha! Touching idea but I'd rather pull my own teeth.
When a 3rd party shows their interest, this will be the day that the blue torch paper is truly lit!
Quady - so where do you see the copper price bottoming out?
Also, when do you think this could happen? A year or two from now?
We certainly don't want it in 2025 is it'll harm the economics behind our first production from Alpala?
Ohh….do I hear wedding bells,better get my suit to the dry cleaners ;). I was under the impression solgold would fund Alpala through bringing a near surface mine/open pit first to production (and to be fair, unless an acceptable offer came in ?) my other gripe whether it be mining news or published news from Ecuador rarely hear about Solgold was reading an article on sunstone metals (?) so come on solgold media push so publicity out here
Addicknt, Quady
You do know that opposites attract don’t you?
One day we may hear a proposal from one to the other lol, have a nice day you two
Atb
Solg SP should have gone up, but something hindered it, probably, how to bring it into production. In Comparison, HZM.L is funded, and Nickel is a battery metal and facing low inventory issues.
Q, do you ever get lonely living in that strange little world of yours? You invent and distort almost everything and then deny having said things. You appear incapable of understanding your own posts and yet expect us to do so. And when you're challenged to support some of your statements - as I did this morning, you simply refuse to answer and then deflect by making totally irrelevant comments.
And as for your attempt to re-write what NM said, it was simply laughable. Everyone else understood exactly what he was saying, but yet again you attempted to deny it, although it's impossible to misinterpret his comments. Doesn't it ever occur to you that perhaps you get things wrong?
Good afternoon Bozi, the problem with the copper price is Covid, the war in the Ukraine and the levels of debt around the world.
All these things suppress economic activity and are here for some time yet.
Quady - they did but with copper recently sinking to a low of $3.5 p/lb the argument can clearly be made that assets might not get a lot cheaper. It all depends on the extent of the impending global recession and how quickly inflation is brought back under control
As Nick also pointed out there is clear scope for SOLG to better the PFS outcomes and push the IRR well into the 20%s. BHP and others will be well aware of this too.
It's entirely possible that the discount BHP were looking for is now. Might we see copper reach for a new low at $3 p/lb? Anyone would be taking a chance waiting for asset values to be suppressed more than that.
There's also an impact medium term to the copper demand story as all those marginal projects become loss making.
There's a sweet spot as I see it and we're close.
I think I have become fluent in the foreign language that the Q speaks.
So BHP bid in shares for Solgold and the deal is accepted. Q accepts BHP shares for his Solgold stake and then BHP announce that they are to develop Alpala and mine it.
Q announces that he was right all along, as his shares are going mining. And so history is rewritten, and we never have to read his version of the truth again. Yay!
Quady, seems like SM's humour went way over your head!
SharketMare what a ridiculous post.
Of course they wouldn't say that.
But the point is they shouldn't have said that they want to acquire assets on the cheap.
They should have said nothing.
But that's not what they did.
11 trade ......
Lol
I'm surprised BHP did not put in their corporate statement that they want to get assets expensively . I think everyone knows where this is going. Let's just leave it at that. Let everyone believe what they want to believe. Good luck.
Yes senderos I heard. Read my replies.
Quad, did you here Nick: Corp. action expected, straight from the horses mouth
SM, ha, ha! Very good!
Looking forward to the day when Mike Henry comes out and says that BHP wants to pay full price for assets, swiftly followed by the news that he's been sacked by the board.
Monte I have covered this many times.
One person in BHP does not bid for Solgold it's a cooperate decision.
BHP's cooperate statement is they want assets on the cheap.
Hence friendly bids. As a hostile bid increases what's paid.
Unless BHP changes its stance, we will not get a hostile bid from them.
There is no good reason why we would not get a hostile bid. No reason Bhp would not pay a decent price, they are just waiting for the right time. NM is now on record as stating he thinks it's now coming. He has put the shareholders on standby.
"share register"!!! Hooray!! The penny has finally dropped!!!
Monte I have covered this question many times.
I agree with you as what you are talking about is a hostile bid as it was rejected.
Hence a hostile bid is what will be required if a bidder is going to be successful. I have covered this over 20 times.
We are not going to get a hostile bid with the current share register. Remember we don't generate income yet. When we are in production the story changes.
Earlier this year Unilever made a £50B offer for GSK"s consumer health division, now separately listed as Haleon. Pfisner have a 32% stake in this company, the offer was made by unilever and rejected by GSK, Pfisner where a side show in the small seats. Why would the same thing not happen with solgs other main shareholder's?
All large companies have diverse share registers, it would apply to most companies involved in M&A activity. The way around it is to pay an exceptable price. Its how deals are done, you either except the price or you don't. I think the thing with solg seems to be more about timing the cycle and the macro environment, we may be getting there.
Agreed DBW, but my point has been to point out why this cannot happen while the book remains so diverse. Also we have used Citi to protect us from low bids and the Franco Nevada offtake agreement was inspired to say the least.
We need more resilience now not less.