RE: Stimulus4 Jun 2020 15:57
Hi SorB, yes that may well be the case but I have a feeling BA may be over in Africa for a few reasons:
- Business in Africa, from my own experience is better served face to face. BA spends a lot of time and effort maintaining good relations and being present in Bamako would help get this over the line. IMO.
- As part of the mining licence application there is a 'negotiation' to be had with the Malian government, this will need to happen face to face.
Just over a year ago a timeline was published for the 121 mining conference in Cape Town, pretty much all of the milestones on the timeline have been met apart from the following:
"12 Months:
Complete Mining licence application and negotiation with Mali government
Finalise mining optimisations and open pit design for processing plant construction"
It seems to me we are very nearly at the point that this either takes off and we make some money or it falls flat. BA has always eluded to our majority shareholder providing funds for the development... it won't be long now until we find out how this will happen.