RE: havieron is the new skallywag.5 Feb 2021 01:18
SXX failed for many reasons. Its potential and what is in the ground wasn't one of them - Anglo American picked all that up as they see the potential. The management were given two options - sell out to AAL dirt cheap or take an offer of loans/finance etc. to keep running it. They bailed on SXX as they had no clue how to take it forward and cashed in for their own gain IMO. SXX could have succeeded with the right people and time. They needed billions to build a mine - £4b near enough with $2.5b left to raise...
GGP have newcrest doing a large portion of the costs, a loan from them for our portion, a processing centre down the road already built, a product people want and their will be orders for etc. We don't need to suddenly go out and try and raise several hundred million at a time to get this project off the ground, pay construction costs, staff costs etc.