Value22 Sep 2025 14:03
Afternoon all.
I see the resident, deramping big buyer still thinks people cannot read for themselves - from the 2021 PEA scoping:
"Three-year trailing metal prices were used in the financial evaluation. These were
determined to the end of the September 2020 quarter and amounted to US$1.20 per pound for
zinc, US$2.81 per pound for copper, US$0.95 per pound for lead, US$16.67 per ounce for
silver and US$1,459 per ounce for gold. A fixed exchange rate of £1.00 = US$1.25 was used.
The LOM project operating and cash flow for each case is summarised in Table 1.5.
In summary, the most attractive option is Case C. Including some US$99 million of
pre-production capital expenditure this shows a total cash operating surplus over the 12-year
mine life of more than US$510 million, which translates to a Net Present Value discounted at
10% pa of over US$120 million with an IRR of 26%."
So, in short and even using the PEA numbers that don't get close to the current price of copper, gold and silver, option C (the most likely/biggest option) yields a firesale value of c£14m which at current issue is just under 3p - i.e. the usual 10x from c0.30p.
I'll get around to modelling an updated NPV based on current copper and Gold prices if I can but suffice to say that the bottom is either in or bloody close to it now IMO.
They can place (massively) at 1p to push this forward at any moment of course once they've printed the bottom print and that may well have been this morning for all I know.