RE: Shaun Day Sunday Roast Interview15 Sep 2024 18:05
I hope that the interview will draw a line in the sand as far as bashing Shaun over the placing price. He had no control over that and was effectively screwed by the players in the London market. That’s not to say that the players in Toronto, New York or Sydney wouldn’t have stuffed him as well. Once Shaun told the underwriters that he needed US$325m, they had his nuts in the wringer. His decision was that the deal was more important than the placing price, so he had no choice than to accept the 30% discount. Not nice but what was his alternative?
The gold and to a lesser extent, the copper price will decide whether this share trades higher and by how much. There is a potential wall of money that could be thrown at miners with large production and cheap costs, but that will need to be unlocked by having a higher gold price that effectively forces mainstream investors through FOMO. Pick your gold price target and pick your share price target.
The stuff that I will be watching out for going forward will be:
When does Shaun implement his hedging strategy for Telfer?
What form will the hedges be?
What does the Havieron FS look like? Production profile, work to do, costs etc?
Is there a plan to increase Havieron production, through conveyors, hoists or a second decline?
What is really going on with the LCA?
How much exploratory drilling is going on at Telfer and when will we get the results?
Are we still planning on doing exploratory drilling at Havieron with drilling from inside the decline? If so, when?
What is the plan for the ASX listing? Fund raise? Winu deal?
Which Aussie instos bought in this placing? Which other ones are restricted w/o an ASX?
Who is getting the bonus shares, and options?
Are any of the directors options being repriced? Hope not!
Are Wyloos options being repriced? Ditto.
Has there been any decisions on the rest of the portfolio, some of which might well be deminimus now?
What is the exploration program for the next 16months?
Is there a plan for O’Callaghans? The Antipa stake?
Plus I would think another 100 questions that might come from any of these answers.
The best things to come out of this deal is that we are in charge of own destiny, we are levered to the rising gold price and have great margins, and we got this at an excellent price.
The worst thing? Well I have had to put some more money in and my timeline has stretched out a bit, well a lot actually.
Shaun is managing the business not my personal wishes!