RE: while I am actively thinking....2 Dec 2018 11:21
AdJshare,
Regarding the Royalty, here's my understanding of it.... It states that we get 12.5% once JLP recover all their costs, apart from an initial 5% payment. However, the 12.5% gets reduced to 11% if they spend more than $15m on the project. It's hard to say how much they will spend but I can't see it being anywhere near $15m if they are using the existing refinery plant. There are two ways they can fund the project, either by debt funding or from cash in staged developments. If they do it from cash it would be better for us as it won't be long before they recover their costs and have to pay us the full 12.5%.
The Royalty will come from cash that's generated by Kabwe and not JLP as a whole company. From what BMRW have been told, we are supposed to be getting the money from revenues and not profits. This might seem like JLP are having to give BMR more money but it will be cost efficient for them, as the Royalty payment will go down as part of their OPEX so they will pay less tax.