RE: re: Correct me if I'm wrong.19 Nov 2021 21:08
No.... Both I assume were instigated post fund raise at the end of May this year....so they have been ticking along for a good while. Possibly CSIRO has been slower due to lockdowns in AUS as that is the testing location.
DFS was complete, this is optimisation that one would do to plug in more uptodate costs (final build of processing facilty design) post Feed pt 2 and EPC contract. Finance will want final costs....just like HZM did an update on input costs etc. Everyone should expect an increase in capex, so they don't moan come update because they forget inflation is happening! BUT with a basket price of $1112 set at the lows of 2020 with current prices I suspect a more peer friendly basket price of $1300+ which raises NPV by 30%! will more than shadow any small capex rise. Heck if they expand a 3rd time due to offtake demands it will blow the doors off!
People have poor expectations of international markets, brokering deals across continents and finance of mines in general, coupled with emotional reactions to paper profit reducing and or losses and scream and shout on BBs...as a result
If you haven't been following Hazbeen, old shareholder has easily dumped 30 mill shares into market since ML approval! Cash call of $700k AUD on another project needed paid for has taken its toll plus a few bed wetters and traders have quit for greener pastures/rainbows....