Last years half year report ! Under delivery / failure27 Mar 2025 10:03
Since the period end we have announced a conditional agreement allowing us to buy the 49.9% of New Ballarat Gold Corporation PLC ("NBGC") which we do not already own, and we are currently conducting due diligence to ensure that these assets would support a post-acquisition rapid development strategy, following which we intend to put to shareholders the issue of the initial consideration shares. In parallel, we are engaged in discussions with potential investors in these assets, either at the pre-IPO stage or immediately, in part or in whole.
In West Africa, we have in the last year seen two licences granted in Ivory Coast, in mineralized belts near the capital and covering ground adjacent to important gold mines. We have further high-quality applications, two in the same vicinity, that are near grant but under new policies expect that grant of these will ultimately depend on good progress at the existing licences. A total of 7 applications have been made, but it is likely that a 4 licence policy will be imposed now, and so in relation to these and other assets, we need to discuss partnership and sale proposals, in order to maximise the value of our portfolio. We have had initial discussions with a number of parties, and exposed the projects at the PDAC mining conference in Toronto, from which we have some new interest expressed. We will make announcements as negotiations develop as appropriate.
n Burkina Faso, we are starting to implement a policy for alluvial gold production initially. Some illegal operators had come onto the site and started to excavate pits, and we have had them removed, but we should not lose time in establishing our own, legal, operations. Hard rock potential also exists: our drilling in Burkina Faso had strong intercepts including 20m at 3.19 g/t gold from 22m depth.
In Kenya, we are in the process of licence renewal on our gold project, which already contain a Mineral Resource Estimate.
Besides gold, we have started lithium operations in Zimbabwe which has absorbed the greater part of our project development expenditure in the period. We have yet to conclude sales, as we believe we will gain more by holding our current stockpile in Beira and Harare as prices recover post the Chinese New Year, and only then will we recommence active operations and export.
Elephant Oil Corporation (EOC) has interests onshore Namibia and onshore Benin on the Nigerian border. The listing has been delayed beyond our expectations, but what we now hope for is some increase in Elephant's breadth of operation and financial strength, before an IPO, to create a larger entity post-listing. This appears a sensible strategy but means that our hopes for a near-term IPO are deferred. We note that we have no control over EOC or the timing of its listing process.
Conclusion
The Company expects to continue to rationalize and dispose of parts of its portfolio in order to focus on cash generation. In the absence of proceeds from the D
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