RE: Kenya6 Sep 2022 13:17
AB mentioned sending the staff home a few times in recent interviews.
A few election back, the locals for some reason thought we were a Kikuyu owned business and there was large gang that turned up with machetes and sticks. Luckily it was resolved and so it can get a bit tasty in Kenya.
I take a different view. My view is that it is time to move on with Kenya: either sell it, flip it into another listed vehicle or find a JV partner that can fund it and will bring it into production. There may be a lot of gold at Migori but the grade is fairly low (still commercial) and it will take a lot of drilling to prove up the extra resource.
When looking at these assets we need to run a grid on them so we can rank them. In my view the big upside for now is n DRC and that is where the capex should go. I don't think we want to spend $10mil at Migori and spend 3 years proving up the resource. In that time we can bring a mine into production in DRC.
On the others; BK, Cote d'Ivoire, ALR and NBGC the intention is that outside capital will be brought in and each will have its own management with an independent future. So fairly soon the cash burn will be off RRR's P&L and RRR will have assets held for sale.
If you look at the data I posted yesterday, large amounts of gold are produced in BK. No reason why FGR can't do the same. FGR is in an area prolific with gold mines and well away from the conflict zone.
Anyway, each to their own.
DYOR