GR Podcast & funding for EPO in place?!9 Dec 2019 14:44
Some very interesting discussion around GR comments about having the funds to start work immediately at Zulu EPO.
This is what GR says in the Podcast:
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“The Deputy Minster of Mines, a little while ago, made an impromptu announcement that was quite widely reported. This goes back about six weeks, I suppose, ago now, to the effect that our Exclusive Prospecting Order had been granted. Facts are that it requires the president of the country to sign an Exclusive Prospecting Order. All our communications, which is ongoing, indicates to us that this is a procedural situation that we’re in [...] So we’re meeting, again, during the course of next week, with the Ministry of Mines and various other ministries in Zimbabwe, really just saying to them, ‘…guys, it was wonderful what was said, and it was very nice that someone said it in the public domain, that we got the Exclusive Prospecting Order. Just give us a confirmatory note to that effect, that you’re gonna put your signature on, so we got it in writing as well. And, err, is there anything we can do Mr President to please get you to sign this thing off? We know you’re open for business. We’ve proved we got the money to go and start work there. We’re desperate to start work there. Please let us.”
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The entire passage I posted above earlier is solely concerned with the EPO approval. If we specifically take the following;
“…is there anything we can do Mr President to please get you to sign this thing off? We know you’re open for business. We’ve proved we got the money to go and start work there. We’re desperate to start work there. Please let us.”
Now let’s drill down (pun thoroughly intended) further;
“…We’ve proved we got the money to go and start work there. We’re desperate to start work there.”
By the ‘there’, he means the EPO and not just Zulu because the entire passage is about EPO. So where are those funds coming from? Circum? Some kind of JV as yet to be announced?!
Finally, they aren’t just meeting the Ministry of Mines. GR says “…various other ministries.”
What other ministries?
Whatever it is, a lot happening this week -- is BIG and getting close.
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For Reference, at about 5mins 58secs in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTb8cx5PnE&t=30s