RE: Life In The Old Dog Yet!25 Nov 2023 09:36
@Howardzz, 31 Oct RNS (Brad's sacking):
"The Company does not intend to appoint a new CEO until after the receipt of the financing proposal for the construction of the Kola Potash Project. The Chairman will assume the role of CEO in the interim. The process to reach agreement on Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract terms, and to receive a financing proposal for the full construction cost of the Kola Potash Project, is now near completion and is expected to be finalised during the first quarter of 2024 with construction contractors scheduled to be mobilised during the first half of 2024."
By 7 December we have more news coming. The Chairman recently sunk more hard cash, via Trusts, into the fund raising. My take? whatever happens, it will happen in the next 2 months; IMO, good things and even if another fund raise is required for the mine to take off, the SP will be higher in a year's time.
The SP shot up last year, after the invasion in Feb 22, as the price of potash tripled; over the following months, the SP tracked the potash price deflating down (plus, the ups and downs with the delays in the EPC, cash running out etc); just because a lot of bad news dragged the SP down, doesn't mean that it will not recover;
I was writing here in the past, mostly to dispel - based only on logic and public info - ALB's deramping eg that the Minister would revoke the license, that the Chinese will pull out, that cash will run out and massive dilution and bankruptcy would ensue.
Guess what? KP2 is still here and IMO, there is light at the end of a very long tunnel; I repeat, all will be revealed in the next 2-5 weeks (further dilution the main short term risk IMO) but the trend is positive. In the long run, Africa will need to eat and the West will move away from Russian/Belarusian potash. All IMO.
Good luck and here's to a great 2024!