RE: £1m market value ?5 Feb 2025 08:35
It is not economic. If it was, it would have been developed first time round 10 years ago, Demir would not have walked (remember the primary objective of the JV was to develop Clontibret then silently they did exploration instead, unsuccessfully), and with someone like Marion Moroney on board and at current Au price they would be marketing this as a development project. But none of that happened.
It needs to be much, much bigger, and at least double the grade, to become viable as a refractory gold project. It is clearly neither of those things. In fact is is probably smaller than the published resource when you take the post-2017 drilling into account. Instead, the company is emphasising the possibility of a non-refractory deposit, somewhere deep down along the second best gold trend on the island of Ireland. This makes it a speculative exploration play, with no funding, and it is priced accordingly. It does make more sense than persevering with the concept of a low grade BIOX-leaching As-pyrite operation but it basically means you're rewinding back to the beginning, to prospecting / conceptual exploration. A Canadian junior might take a punt on it, raise a million bucks to put into some deep drilling. CGNR board and shareholders will need to be realistic about value.