RE: Final Results13 Dec 2020 13:06
Cont’d..
I noted that the usual Stragetic Plan section of the Results has been dropped.
This showed what we were planning to achieve for the year and how we did against that. It also provided a target for the next year. On page 4 under Strategic results we have this statement;
“The Strategic Plan is on track although delays to the permitting process have meant that we did not meet our objective to be in production in 2020. Nevertheless, our CS Project is now fully permitted, and we are aiming for first commercial production in 2021”
** Comment, the RNS of 27th October had stated we were aiming for first Commercial production in Spring 2021. My hope is that the Company are still working to Spring 2021! **
One other point is around Warrants. No warrants were exercised during the year ending 30th Sept 2020. However a number of Warrants were issued this year – 74.4M to be precise as per pages 40 and 41
Of these 39.4M allocated to Peterhouse Capital who did the 3 placings. So in addition to taking a fee (I believe 5% of placing value) they get warrants which have a 12 month expiry and based on the placing price. I am in the wrong job!
Warrants for the first two of these three placings are comfortably ‘in the money’ and no doubt the next annual results will advise of them being exercised. It seems likely to me that Peterhouse will have been selling the shares they got through the warrants (Brokers don’t tend to keep them) and ‘perhaps’ the sales of 8M shares on 10th Dec at below bid is an example of one of these sales? This might explain why we so often get NT for dummy sells!
There was another block of 35M warrants at .195p were issued this year at 6th August 2020 which are valid for 5 years. It seems that the Remuneration committee, chaired by Mr Roger Murphy, awarded 30M of these to Patrick – page 22 has details and is described as a long-term incentive plan.
The warrants cannot be exercised until after 5th August 2021 and half of these (15M) can only be exercised after ‘The Company makes the first sustainable sales of perlite / pozzolan Product from the CS Project’.
I note on page 42 that Patrick now owns 231M shares (includes 100M shares from the Feb placing which he participated in) plus the 30M assigned warrants. This is a great holding and Patrick will be pushing to get CS to production and to increase the share price. For the warrants, if Patrick can get us to Production and get the SP to 1p those 30M warrants would be in profit to the tune of circa £240K. Every 1p on top of that in the SP increases that profit by £300K.
Summing up my thoughts for this and prior post.
It has been a very solid 12 months and we have some good possibilities on the precious metals front.
However, stating simply ‘2021’ for Production and saying this and that will be done ‘in due course’ is frustrating. We expect more detail and if plans go awry then so be it – stuff happens in life.
I hope that folks found this analysis of use.