RE: buying23 Sep 2018 15:13
Some see fund raising as a dilution hole and lost money, but there are certainly 3 basic types of dilution -
1. Exploratory - were there is no guarantee that money raised will bring value overall.
2. Project Development - you have something of value, you need to commercialise it
3. Production - it's commercial so make money
Whilst a very short while ago Portugal was spending money in 1. It's now moved to 2.
Moz is in 2. and Oman is at stage 3.
Everything raised this last raising will be spent on increasing value, because all projects have a value.
Oman producing is income.
Moz PFS is 20% to 35% project value increase and we can only be bought out at market rate, not money spent once beyond PFS.
Portugal gaining facts for commercialisation, enhances value. Having something in the ground must be proven that it can be removed and be a saleable product. I get impression DA already knows this but he must jump through market hoops, vanilla mining technology and vanilla product, it's as simple as they come.
It often makes me laugh that investors (naive ones) think that when they buy in that the company can drill holes, do studies, buy mining equipment and start mining with fairy dust money......however whilst a company can enhance its value in project progression it does not mean the market will price it in of course.