RE: "LONDON'S JUNIOR MKT NEEDS TO SHARPEN UP ITS A I M."-Times of London, Sat 4.5.245 May 2024 11:29
News, there are exceptions. The thing about ten years and hundreds of millions is hard rock at depth; ie underground rather than open pit or tailings. It is also about the jurisdiction: Victoria is harder to operate in than Burkina Faso from a regulatory point of view.
RRR doesn't need a Tier One deal to make good money. Some companies will turn their noses up at very good deals because they are in the wrong jurisdiction.
I am in a number of shells; one has a copper tailings deal (about $1bn of metal) that is about to close. It will take about 12 months to start production, it should list on AIM October/November. Another has decent gold/copper that will be open pit: should list AIM October/November and take two years to bring into production. Another is O&G in Texas that reversing into an OTC company and will then move up to NYSE. None are Tier One but all will make decent money, which is good enough.
As I have said multiple times, the model of spending some money and flipping the asset to a bigger company has been largely broken. That might be about to change for gold and copper assets. Bottom line, we should only be after assets that can be brought into production fairly quickly.
Once Bilbale is producing we need to do the same on our other alluvial assets. Once we know it works and that we can operate alluvial assets successfully, we should pick up other similar assets and repeat the trick
DYOR