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Cornish,
Thanks for correcting my loose language. Not being a mining engineer I did not quite know how to phrase it. I also had not understood the mining cycle and how therefore the single production area would cause a significant issue with that.
BTW thanks for everything you post more generally it is incredibly helpful.
Best wishes,
Prof
Hi Tiger,
I would agree that on balance debt is the most likely. I would hope that with the improving picture terms are likely to be significantly better than in the past. Surely the risk premium required to lend is reducing rapidly.
Are you adding further?
Best wishes,
Prof
Thanks Oiltap.
Couldn't quite get my head round what is going on with cash. Substantial chunk of debt repaid yet virtually no movement in net debt as far as I could see.
Cash generation may be good but if they had it earmarked for expenditure at the previous higher level of generation then it would suggest they might need some more cash. However I would have thought they would have the head room to accommodate that given the recent fund raising. One reading of the RNS is that Q2 will also be below forecast and maybe it is the totality of the H1 shortfall in production and therefore cash that gives rise to the issue.
Thoughts?
Best wishes,
Prof
Good point Pedro. Thanks for highlighting.
Best wishes,
Prof
Having gone through the RNS I took away the following:
-production in Q1 was less than expected because of lack of flexibility with the current single access point.
-we are doing work to ensure we have more than one access point.
-we are still confident to get back to previous target production run rate by end of year
-we will not catch up the lost production from Q1 therefore will be below previous lower end of estimate for full year production.
-the above point needs we need more money
-we are looking at options to get that.
-otherwise all going to plan
Do others read it light this?
Best wishes,
Prof
Tiger,
Thanks for sharing your views on those stocks. Inevitably on any board you tend to get a massive bias from poster in favour of the stock so it is good to hear some contrary views. Have had a quick look at BOD and will probably lurk in the chat page for a while to get a feel. Thanks for the pointer.
Best wishes,
Prof
Oh and should have added that I am into SLP although a little less than into THS.
Hi Tiger,
Thanks for your answer. Was amused to see you spellcheck correction to ' deacons' as when I had reread my post saw 'say' had been corrected to see.
Nearly bought some more today but just have this niggling worry over FIL selling down if it is indeed them. I agree that institutional investors can sometimes do weird things (never underestimate the stupidity of a risk committee) but still assume they are not completely stupid.
Have done very well of late on RMM and JLP although not with enough skin in the game to make a real difference. Have had a few good turns on HOC but currently underwater with my latest investment with them. And CEY is, well CEY. What about you?
Best wishes,
Prof
Hi Tiger,
Bought in here based on Sotolo mentioning on the HOC board and I have to see that seeing you were here to gave me confidence. Then liked what I read on what is another very sensible board.
I notice lots of people saying this will increase once FIL have finished there selling. Do we know why they are selling please?
Best wishes,
Prof
"With everything that is going on, you just can't help but be bullish on gold," said Button (Chief Currency Strategist at ForexLive
Full article at link:
https://www.kitco.com/news/2021-04-28/Gold-looks-good-as-Biden-pushes-trillions-in-new-infrastructure-education-spending-in-Address-to-Congress-Analyst.html
Hi Mary,
I think Q4 is the wrong benchmark; everyone knew it was a real shocker.
I agree that we should see a blue day but I think it will be relief for having seemingly turned the corner and management delivering on commitment.
Fingers crossed,
Prof
For those who focus on free cash flow the numbers are perhaps the best indicator of why the SP has taken such a tumble. Q120 it was $45.6M but for this quarter, Q121, it has fallen to $9.4M and this despite an average realised price of gold of nearly $200 more.
On the plus side it is up from $3.5M in Q420.
Hopefully the set of results, while not stellar, will reassure that the new management is delivering what is said it would and will therefore get CEY back to being a 500k oz per year, with the AISC and free cash flow benefits that go with that (subject to gold price) in line with schedule.
Correction:
Production nearly 105oz which would actually put us bang in the middle of the estimate for FY.
On a quick skim it all looks as expected. A comfortable Q1 production of nearly 110oz which suggest full year should be closer to top end of estimate and also moves us away from the dreaded poor H1 with the promise of it all being made up in H2.
AISC looks lower than expected. Would be interested to hear other views.
Will now read in slower time and digest.
Best wishes,
Prof
Hi DaggerMal,
I like to think it is just nervousness ahead of tomorrow. After October's awful news I know I held off buying today out of fear of a repeat even though I was really tempted.
Let us hope that tomorrow we get a double lift: good news and a boost from no bad news.
Best wishes,
Prof
Arfur,
You just tempted me to go and find a Tunnack's caramel wafer, albeit more in hope than expectation. Amazingly I found a stray one at the bottom of the cupboard that Professor Jnr and Professor Minor had missed on their last ransacking.
Yum, yum!
Prof
Hi SuperC,
Agree Cey are likely to be good tomorrow. Have hovered over the buy a few times today but held off given I have a lot already and am still nursing the experience of Oct last year with the 2 shockers of RNS. Have not got FRES but am tempted. Am doing rather well on Rambler (RMM) a recommendation from DJRyan and also Jubilee (JLP). Still very heavily exposed to miners and cash in anticipation of a market correction but have been for months so missed out on the Dow's recent rise. What about you?
Best wishes,
Prof
Arfur,
How was the Tea Cake?
Prof
Although I guess that silver's surge in the last few minutes to 26.35 (a month high) helps. Hopefully some significant legs in this over the next few days provided silver doesn't fall back.
For those of you who also hold CEY strange to see a small fall there today despite gold knocking on the door of the 1800 which again is a month high. Nerves ahead of tomorrow?
HOCs currently third highest riser in FTSE250 for the day. Not a bad position particularly where we started the day.