Why is everyone losing their minds?25 Feb 2019 13:14
I have raised this point a few times now and yet people still seem to be doing it. What I don't understand is what difference does a few tenths or hundredths of a pence up or down make in the grand scheme of things, right now?
I have a sizeable chunk of my portfolio here, but I still class this a gamble at best for a number of reasons:
- Until we step up to decent production levels. Yes, we are producing, but producing 20 tons a month isn't doing a lot and yes it might pay a few bills, but it isn't 200 tons a month!
- We are a small company who have a sizeable debt in the region of our market cap, which needs to be serviced in the short to medium term, all the while making sure that we manage to pay off all the other bills we have and will have, which we should do but there are always unknowns that might require servicing.
- Sentiment is against us, with the loss of Drakelands, it HAS affected sentiment to us and other junior miners in the Tungsten market, because if they can fail, then anyone can, as they were producing a sizeable amount of Tungsten. Yes admittedly Tungsten prices were low and they had the wrong equipment, but once bitten, twice shy.
- We have in the past had numerous placings, which have increased the shares in issue to circa 6 billion shares, when warrants, etc are included. So it is very easy to manipulate a bit of downward pressure and keep it well hidden and with production low and no grant money, we MAY need funds.
- Where's the money from the local government? Yes it said March, but what are the stipulations for the conditions and when do they have to be due by? It says employ people and in production? How many people? How many locals? Can the market price in the grant to the market cap at the moment? When do we actually receive the money? Also what form will it take? Tax Relief? A reduction on business rates or similar?
-Another set of unexplained questions are: We are told Regua cost 4-6 Million Dollars to get in to production. Where is that money coming from? The market doesn't seem to be sure, so pricing in for placing or some extension of debt to service it. Until this is clarified, we and they are all just guessing.
I sincerely hope that those going to the proactive investor meeting, ask more cutting questions than the ones at the Turner Pope meeting and hopefully there will be less love for MM, as that wasted considerable time that could have been used to ask more difficult questions.
I did in a chat with people raise my concerns about stuff and about how it wouldn't be a straight forward rise to levels unheard of since the purchase of La Parrilla, but I was told by one person it was mearly a formality, sadly that isn't the case, but I am still very hopeful that we will be in the pennies very soon and in dividends in the not too distant future, but all you can do at the moment is knuckle down and accept that we are last in the food chain or move on. Only people can decide on this for