RE: Chrome concentrate price2 Mar 2024 13:05
There's still a cash shortfall because of the Rian expansion Kalan. JLP will need another 20 million by the end of the year.
Ramp up and optimization is twice as expensive as the infrastructural costs of these modules I'm afraid. The company will need perfect conditions of a weakening Rand, and a rise in pgm prices.
Let's not forget that roan sells it's copper to JLP to process at sable, but they only retain 30% of the net proceeds that sable produces. Therefore JLP have to front up 70% of the net proceeds to IRH before they can process it downstream at Sable.
They'll of course be reimbursed for build costs by IRH but how they'll be reimbursed has a serious implications on the balance sheet and cash requirements given the nature of the sales.
All shareholders should concern themselves with getting more information.
Does the reimbursement include ramp up costs or just build costs.
Will the reimbursement be cash or refunded from project net cashflow in advance of any JV earnings split. Obviously if it's the latter then the greater the requirement of cash there is.
And now that we're out of the back end of Feb, we need to be asking if the IRH deal is actually going to happen or not? If it's not then JLP are in serious trouble