Strategy26 Mar 2025 08:34
It’s a 2023 article, but remains valid in terms of Amaroq’s general strategy. I emphasise the Gold Grade because the tonnage at first sight doesn’t seem to cut it. And it highlights the rarely mentioned JV with GCAM, Moore Capital, Bacon.
Mining operations have suffered circa 30% inflation as a global average. How can you mitigate capex costs? How is Nalunaq ‘low cost’ — can you qualify this claim?
Grade is King! To put this simply, our inferred resource grade is currently 28 g/t (grammes of Gold per tonne of ore mined) which is in the top 2% of Gold mines in the world. If another mine is running at 7g/t, then they will have to bring out 4X as much ore to deliver the same amount of Gold. At 3.5 g/t is it 8X more ore that has to be mined and processed. Obviously this has significant implications on ‘cost’. This is the reason the mines with the lowest AISC (All In Sustaining Cost) in the world are the usually the mines with the highest grade. Regarding Capex, we managed to procure and purchase most of the large components for the processing plant in 2020 and have them currently in storage ready to ship so we have luckily avoided the inflationary increases that we have seen recently and the long lead times that are evident in the market for this type of equipment.
1. There’s been a lot of investment into Amaroq recently; GCAM’s £18 million subscription for 49% of the Gardaq JV, the $49.5 million senior secured financing package to bring forward production at Nalunaq, and £30 million of capital fundraising. Can you paint me a picture of the company’s current financial position, including cash runway?
We believe this is a great testament to the potential of Amaroq, the quality of management and the support we have from our shareholders. GCAM (a consortium of High Net Worths led by Tim Leslie and Louis Bacon) Gardaq JV gives us £18m to explore, drill and quantify our Strategic Metals portfolio over the next 3-4 years. The £30m of equity and $49.5m senior secured financing package aims to bring the Nalunaq mine into initial production as well as more exploration drilling at Nalunaq to keep increasing that resource. The intention is that the future cashflow from Nalunaq will fund the company going forward to bring the other advanced exploration targets in our Gold portfolio like Vagar and Nanoq up the value chain. Early indications are that these have the potential to be Tier 1 multi-million ounce deposits but we will require the Drill bit to prove it!
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