Gold Mine - Discussion26 Oct 2023 11:48
Abstract from the Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 31 May 2023 (see website 29th September 2023) regarding the Garalo-Ntiela Gold Project (‘Garalo-Ntiela’)
The board anticipates that this focus on the Muchesu Project will continue over the coming 24 months as Contango works to develop, and expand, a fully integrated coking operation. In addition, the current uncertainty in Mali relating to the new mining code has prompted the board to make the prudent decision to fully impair the Mali assets at this moment in time. Notwithstanding this, the Malian assets remain significant and an interesting gold project, with the strong potential for a resource of 1.8Moz-2Moz gold. The board will look to maximise the value of these assets at the appropriate time through discussions with relevant interested parties.
Impairment - in accounting this is a permanent reduction in the value of a company asset. It may be a fixed asset or an intangible asset.
This would suggest to me that this has just been parked up for now and assigned no value, rather than disposed of?