RE: Luansobe14 Feb 2024 14:40
Hard to tell. We know the directors are after a big discovery, we can see that by the behaviour on other companies I.e selling XTR assets to fund exploration on higher potential big discovery assets and also the language used "Kamoa style resource" etc
I think they will be weighing up the option for the underground resource on Luansobe. The UG has potential to be a huge discovery. We bought the asset with 164 drill holes already in it, some of which we re-logged. Then we spent a further $4m as part of our obligation drilling it with another 30 holes. If we had to pay to do all 194 from scratch in today's money, it could have cost us over £20m. A huge head start to getting that big discovery. On this basis I believe we will split the underground from the shallow pit.
We have an agreement with Statunga that we pay them $6m of any sale then 25% of any profit after that. Page 8 of the yearly report shows there's some big numbers of copper in both.cut off grade shallow pit 0.25%. The shallow pit alone appears to have over $450m of copper in the ground, using Addisons assumptions of $9000t copper, 0.85 recover through acid leeching. Say we sold the asset for 10% (hopefully more) of that... £45m and a cut of the profits. We'd have enough for a good way through Shinganda going it alone, the Western foreland, kamativi and luansobe Deep.
Also if someone buys Luansobe shallow pit, we know they have access to the funds via revenue to then later purchase luansobe deep of us at a later date
Word from the mining Indaba is that there is going to be a significant upturn in 6 months with the mining sector and companies are positioning themselves for that arrival