RE: Kefi and the prospects23 Nov 2019 20:13
Degsy, thanks that is a really good article.
I think that when Harry says the copmpany will have a MCAP of £200M in a year he really means this. Harry has been around for a long time -was head of EMED (now Atalaya mining) and built that company up before handing it over in 2013 - now a £260M company. So Harry is very capable and I feel will not be happy until he has increased KEFI to a similar size if not bigger. In terms of his approach it seems very professional and ensuring that he does things properly so that the communities and the country are on his side (e.g. dealing with compensation for Ethopian re-settlement and the new Mining education announced recently.
While I think that everyone, including myself, love the sound of Gold it could be that the Saudi copper could be just as valualble. Barrack just last week said it was in the process of selling some of it's gold mine resources so that it could buy ore Copper resources. It has a copper mine about 200km north of our Saudi licence which has CU at 1.2% (same as our assay results so far) and In 2014 Ma’aden paid $210M for 50% - and we have 23 more VMSs to check-out. So, although we may have more to do to convince anyone it could become a very interesting JV play with Barrack.
Add to that the fact that we do not know the size of additional resources under our Ethiopia mine and further along our licence (which Harry has said that Kefi will explore once the mine is underway) then we also have our potential mine 50KM south of Tulu -
'Potential for 10-20Mt at 1.5% Cu; (15Mt at 1.5% Cu at $5000/t Cu = $1.1Bn insitu metal) ' - this was at 2016 values and Cu is much higher now.
If you add all of that up then must come to at least £200M MCAP IMO