RE: Stockbox interview24 Nov 2023 05:41
Current gold price is $64 per gram, so 0.5 g is $32. You don't believe me that it's refractory gold even though the company says it is, so just for your benefit let's assume at those grades a very very best case of 70% recovery, so the rock is worth $22 per tonne.
You really think in Ireland and at today's energy costs, even if you could get such a super pit permitted, you could mine, crush quartz, process (using expensive biox processing & cyanidation) and elute gold, and payback high capital costs (for what would need to be a very high tonnage operation) and still get a return for the owners?
It's simple economics, that's why they have cut off grades and in this area it is apparently 1 g/t. Never mind the impossibility of getting such a thing permitted.