RE: Another day closer to the 3rd quarter results19 Aug 2020 12:23
Dreamy
I have conversed with Troajan for many years, he is not a bad bloke, he is someone who understands that starting up a mine and getting the kit to work anywhere near design capacity takes a long time, something which I believe you and I also understand.
I too have struggled with trying to understand how MM’s comments on 30th of June can have been correct given the subsequent ordering of long lead time kit and the need for the Atlas cash, but having given it considerable thought I have come to the conclusion that:-
1. When he made his 30th June comments he believed that we had, very late in June, significantly increased our extraction of tungsten, but that subsequently the new management had detected that the kit as was/is was not capable of producing the 200 tons per month that are expected, therefore the need for the new long lead equipment order.
2. much of the cheap rate cash that we were awarded under the government protection was used to pay off more expensive loans
3. Given that we had already done upgrades to the kit and were ordering further long lead kit, and that our costs were still exceeding or at best only just being covered by our sales, the drawdown on the atlas money was a necessity.
4. Black rock authorised the draw down, it was a requirement of the facility that they were empowered to either agree or disagree with the draw down, given that they agreed and have someone on the board, they must believe that the company can and will achieve full production going forward.
Now I am the first to accept that I may of course be wrong, but I believe that WRES will succeed and that the third quarter figures will be significantly better than the last quarter figures.