License acquisition from Joy Transporter10 Mar 2023 22:28
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Sorry I though I post this, just to show how secretly Atlantic have acquired the illegal licenses in question.
Secret payments? Not really.
Is commune practice to pay for and grant royalties, when acquiring mining licenses, so on this front Atlantic has done noting wrong and indeed, Completion of the acquisition was subject to regulatory and ministerial approvals which have now been received. Now means in 2021 by the current Ghana Gov.
Beside the legal matter Blue Orca in its report, is trying to make people believe that these licenses, the Saltpond and Cape Coast portfolio are part of Ewoyaa project, Mineral Resource and Feasibility study on which Atlantic have based their submission for future mining license production.
This also is not true.
More over and finally, the agreement to acquire the Saltpond and Cape Coast portfolio started on 17 January 2018, when Gen. Mosquito was in power, and was approved by the current Government (the one that is supposed to cancel the license) now..... between the 2018 and the 2021 date of approval of license transaction, there has been a general election.
If the current Gov. wanted to use this apparent illegal corrupted license sale, as a political leverage, it occur to me the best occasion was to do it in 2020 during general election.
In the end Blue Orca may as well succeed to make money by shorting PLL, but imv not because of Atlantic license issue.
They are clever...they have time it to perfection and calculated that indeed PLL is a bit overvalued considering that the still need hundreds of million $ financing and permitting to build the refinery, also they (orca) are timing it right with the price of Li correcting right now beside dire macroeconomics..... Piedmont luck of financing and permitting including timing dedlines has been also one of my concerns in the past for Atlantic, I remember almost whishing for Atlantic to disintagle from this deal and go look for another partner, like an European auto maker, but maybe even a Chinese so long as the offtake agreement is not on the cheap....Anyway yes Pll sp may be under pressure for a different reason, but I would expect All sp to slowly get back above 35p in the next month.