RE: COBALT29 Sep 2025 11:55
HappyDays, thank you for the award! AI will assist you to find data, works on assumptions you feed it with and other facts you must put in the equation to model something. I use it mostly to check my spelling and grammar to respect residents of the board.
LC: (17 October 2023) - Award of New Slag Project with Mopani Copper Mines RNS Number : 2958Q
"Our immediate next step is to form an integrated team with Mopani to unpack the complexity within the slag material through our development centre. I expect to implement the Slag Project over two phases as we target to prioritise the quick-to-process initial slag material, while completing the process review for the more complex slags over the coming 6-month period."
Should be profitable for Copper and Cobalt and concentrators for copper not required at the current prices.
The Slag Project of 13 million tonnes of historical slag, represents an exciting opportunity for Jubilee to extract and process these valuable resources, estimated to contain 89kt of copper and 44kt of cobalt, in addition to current arising slag from the on-going MCM facility in Mufulira. The copper grades within the slag are double those of standard tailings, providing an exceptional opportunity to extract maximum value from this significant resource.
The salient terms of the JV include:
The exclusive right of the JV to access and refine the Mufulira Slag;
Jubilee taking the lead in developing the processing solution, its subsequent implementation, and managing the operations;
Jubilee will hold the first right to securing finance the project's capital for implementation of the Slag Project; and
The formation of a supervisory board for the JV, comprising representatives from both Jubilee and MCM.
The contractual commitment to this project takes effect immediately and will be superseded by the finalisation of the JV agreements between Jubilee and MCM.
Modeling of profits provide healthy profit profile with assumptions:
13 Mt slag
Grades: 0.7% Cu, 0.27% Co
Recoveries: Cu 70%, Co 50%
Annual feed: 1 Mt / year (→ ~13 years life)
Costs: Cu $4,500/t, Co $15,000/t
Life-of-Project (13 years, stable prices)
$53.9m × 13 years = $700m gross profit
Jubilee 50% JV share ≈ $350m net
However, it will be most likely more with annual 10% increase in commodity prices with likely 5% increase in cost prices. Etc.
What is unknown at this stage: capital requirement.
JMK to provide and update.