RE: Shipped22 Dec 2020 14:00
Safety
L200 is provably wrong.
Q3 production was 54.7 tons of tungsten and 22.9 tons of tin, a total of 77.6 tons, recovery rates were 37% for tungsten and 30% for tin, all as stated in the RNS, the 27th November RNS stated that we had produced more up-to that point than in Q3, and the recovery rates were 40% for tungsten and 53% for tin, that’s more than 77.6 tons, today’s RNS states that recoveries of tungsten have improved from 40% in November to 58.7% in December and that we have already shipped 20 tons of tungsten with another 20 tons due to be shipped before the end of the month and that we have 25 tons of tin waiting to be collected, it does not state what the tin recovery rates are currently.
All of the above are facts directly from the RNS’s, so what we can draw from the facts is that as an absolute minimum, we will have shipped 25 tons of tin this month which as this is purchased at the spot price based upon today’s price will be 25 x $20,038 = $500,950, now if that’s the total amount of tin we have shipped this quarter, then it’s still more than half of the figure I quoted earlier, but of course it’s not likely that 25 tons is the total amount of tin we have produced in Q4 because we produced 22.9 tons in Q3 and we know that our production in the first eight weeks of this quarter were higher than the whole of Q3.
In short with recovery rates increasing significantly as has been stated in the RNS’s and with us running at 24/4 in Q4 against 24/3 in Q3 I can’t see how our total production could be less than 150 tons combined and given that as Troajan has previously correctly stated, the amount we get per ton for tungsten and tin is very similar if we say on average 150 tons x $18,000 we end up with the $2,700,000 of income that I previously opined.