World economic recovery24 Apr 2021 07:48
The world economy has started to recover, and there is a large demand for metals. You can’t turn on the valve quickly to add new mine supply, and when you can’t do that and volume and demand rises, that translates into higher prices, we’ve seen the price of tin more than double from it’s low last year, and we’ve seen tungsten increase by about 50% so far, many forecasters expect tungsten to rise a lot more over the next year or so with some expecting over $400 per MTU.
Given that Shard have presumed an average tin price of $23,000 per ton, and an average tungsten price of $260 per MTU and that both of those figures have already been exceeded.
IF, we can now push through to full T2 production levels we will be making a healthy profit, but IF, on top of the production target being reached tin stays, as it is at the moment, about 20% above the Shard forecast and Tungsten does as expected increase further and averages only 10% above the Shard forecast, which would be $286 per MTU then our profits will be substantial and the SP will be many multiples of the current lowly figure.
Rumours of WRES’s demise are greatly exaggerated ;-)