RE: AISC is rising Gold is plummeting2 Sep 2022 08:24
That’s a very blind accountants look on the economics of mining.
It gets bigger and bigger. Of course it is but only by the amount of drilling that is required to prove the resource.
They’re still trying to prove resources outside the known MRE.
If they drill it costs the bigger it gets the more it costs..
The drilling to the main body is nearly complete. The depths now are too deep for accurate drilling.
The new pad position are on the east targeting deep into the NW pod were the resource is not fully known.
Why do they need to prove up the resource ?
The answer is all in the mine planning and future management of the processing. You can’t plan without an adequate level of information.
If Ggp would still have 100% I doubt very much we would have drilled enough to have a maiden MRE.
Without drilling there’s no 6.5mozeq reserves that is less assets.
Regarding the exploration drilling they still need to find if there’s anything there, it’s not a big licence, it could effect where they put the infrastructure.
A wrong decision at this could have a huge financial impact in the future.
Your assessment of NCM draining Ggp funds is false, Ggp and NCM need to know what’s there.
Look back at all the presentations for both companies and you can see the future capex for 2022 and 2023 reaches a peak and then tails off when revenues start.
This has always been the position with faced, the slow progress of the Decline hasn’t helped the situation but progress is now picking up speed and accelerating.
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts first ore revenues are huge for Ggp, these loans or debt you talk of will be gone in 3-4 years, they’re not that big in the scheme of things.
Future revenues will keep paying for future capex.