RE: RNS28 Jul 2022 13:21
I see the 'The decision to mine' method of triggering the AA agreement a risky hand to play, and one that better suits AA. If AA call our bluff on that then we have to find 20% of development costs. (lets say ~$100e6?!)
I don't think AA, should they be interested, will want any other company having any part of BR but they could certainly make life hard for xtract and we could end up with a real low ball offer.
Despite what Bird says, I don't feel we have 2Mt at Racecource, the grades just haven't matched the .44 av that AA had in their drill campaign . Maybe not the end of the world if we have something worth selling at, say, 1.5Mt, I image there will still be a number of companies will to buy the resource at that sort of magnitude.
The Geo's will know what we have by now, and I imagine they will have a good idea if the current RC resource can be increased in a meaningful way. I just hope Bird doesn't spend $$$ on another round of drilling with little increase in resource.
At some point, if the 2mt is not achievable, he just needs to man up and admit his initial statements were misleading. Let's hope we know where we are before the AGM!