RE: POSITIVE FEASIBILITY STUDY DEMONSTRATES PROFITABLE MAGNET RECYCLING BUSINESS IN UK25 Nov 2024 09:19
Superb economics B99 in a difficult environment
Also, compare those economics to traditional mining?
Construction of only $125m CAPEX (vs a mine which is quadruple and has permitting risks, ESG risks, geopolitical risks) makes this an absolute shoe in for funding.
$19.5KG AISC is absolutely superb, even in china the magnets are selling for more than that.
Performance will be key, we did note a marginal / slight drop in performance vs traditional NdFeB magnets straight out of the ground but at some point the world is going to need to go recycled and we have time to optimise. This isn't a balanced statement, our performance was EXCELLENT just not 100% matched, which may be impossible to be fair anyway.
The good news is the US are funding these projects.
Next 3 months obviously we now want to see future offtakes in place, to derisk the supply chain further.
JT mentioned Ebay for the first time in a recent call, along with Apple and Tesla. Ebay is a very interesting prospect and would fit in perfectly. He also mentioned Amazon.
Obvious other risk is now the technology is not only proven both technical wise and economics, we may get some hostile bids or at minimum someone looking for a large stake. A bit like Star link taking a position in FTC.
It is now clearly evident that this is point in our lifecycle where we begin to accelerate to a much higher valuation, potentially 10-100x from here over the next 12-48 months.