RE: Soma Gold4 Dec 2025 14:47
Boring Boy, as I said, you understand nothing about what you prattle on about.
The NPV calculation was based on the information in the public domain at the time. That information related to the Soma's declared intended restart date for the El Limon mill, the information it put in the public domain about the what volume of gold it would produce from El Limon, the price of gold, the percentage of the royalty (it changed after the first $2m from 3% down to 0.5%) and the likely NSR royalty (the NSR royalty is net of smelter costs). That calculation came out at about $2mil. In practice, Soma restarted the El Limon mill much later than indicated and likely still isn't a full throughput capacity. Because NPV is a time based calculation, if that information had been available at the time of the calculation of the NPV, it would have reduced the number to something below $2mil.
The sale of the royalty gave certainty, £1mil and the 200,000 warrants. With hindsight, RRR did a decent deal. Why? Well because of the delayed restart of the El Limon mill, because of the delays caused by the strike at El Bagre and because the warrants give full exposure to Soma's activities over the next three years and the exposure is uncapped.
If RRR exercises and holds, it might even up better off than if it kept the royalty. It will all be down to Soma doing what it says it will.
I know it will hurt to admit it but RRR did the right thing in selling the royalty and it looks better with the passage of time.
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