RE: Wow3 Dec 2023 07:43
El, Mako have been in production for around 3 years now. They just released an updated resource and only have 250,00 M&I ounces! Yet they managed to get into production, producing circa 40-50,000 ounces per year. They currently have a market cap of £100m.
Mako are a good company for comparison for obvious reasons. We had a PEA before our FS so the board had a rough idea on capex. We should have brought someone on board with mining experience and should have had finance in the bag ready to be signed and sealed ASAP once the FS was out. Even around that time, with a 60/40 split of $120m, we would have needed circa $50m equity. Let's say that could have been negotiated at around 25p per share, we could have added 160m. By adding that to the 190m we have now, we would of had around 350m in issue (probably less as we wouldn't have had all those shares issued at 15p!).
Even with the same market cap of mako who would be producing 50% less than we would be producing and with our resource being 10x bigger, the share price would be around 28p. Double that and we would be doubling mako's annual production and the sp would be late 50s. Then we would have kept the project, kept the potential. The board needs to sell this at a decent price and finally reward their shareholders.