RE: Gut feeling - no raise30 Jan 2025 17:14
@gord
Thanks for the reply and info.
So cash burn for H1 id thought could be taken from the following 2 snippets from the company
“The Company's cash balance at 30 June 2024 was USD 1.93 million (USD 0.77 million in cash and USD 1.16 million in Financial Assets), which compares to a cash balance of USD 8.39 million (USD 0.82 million in cash and USD 7.57 million in Financial Assets) on 30 June 2023”.
“As of 31 December 2023, the Group's cash position was $4.5 million (inclusive of Financial Assets) (31 December 2022: $5.1 million)”
I’m not an accountant or even skilled in reading accounts so perhaps simplifying but that suggested to me that the 2024 H1 cash burn was circa $2.55m.
My assumption was H2 (even aside from drilling which I’m happy to ringfence / exclude) would be more, as the activity has ramped up - especially renewables based on the raise. Even the drilling analysis will require resource and potentially money.
I suppose we don’t know exactly where the $9m raise has gone. It’s open to debate whether H1 was already funded as slightly mixed message but Gobi was definitely $1.5m. Again H2 hard to say but based on what we know it sounds like $2.5m.
That would leave $5m plus the $1m they had left = $6m.
I therefore don’t agree there’s money to last until the end of the year if the cash balance really is around the brokers estimate of $2.5m, as it appears the cash burn outside of drilling was $3.5m for H2.
New licences now to fund too.
The above is just my thinking, happy to have it explained a different way.