RE: please focus on Portugal15 May 2018 23:53
I respect the point of view and it's probably close to the truth but, Oman has hung over this company for a long time. It's had time, money and dilution put into it and many people have waited a long time to see that reason for investment come to fruition.
It's also about converting exploration to production, about delivering on something, anything. If they can bring something to production and operate a mine and have income, confidence will be instilled in the deliverable of future projects. So it may not be specifically about Oman anymore, just seen as a test case. It's also important to see the value invested in Oman recovered.
We are also a multi commodity company and that whilst I feel muddied the water for lithium only investors, it is a long term hedge against being a one trick pony. Copper investment is an easily understood commodity. Having negative Oman sentiment whilst trying to sell the big lithium story in Portugal is a distraction, having Oman flow with positive news balances the Portugal news and will be value giving and an asset by which SAV can borrow against etc.
Think what we are both saying Oman is small compared to the bigger picture but I think it's affect on sentiment and value add is bigger than its size. Up until now it became a drag, now it could start to be a positive distraction.