RE: B of A mining & steel conference14 May 2026 14:05
Regarding the minimum tungsten pricing from the US - I am sure I saw a message that this was a reporter's comment and the company who was supposed to have made this claim denied this.
Re Chinese Tungsten - I don't know nearly enough about the technicalities of grades, or what what mines the Chinese have in future plans, but I'm surprised that the Chinese market prices were rising in line with the Western world in the first place. To me this says that they had quite high demand, likely to build up stockpiles. If they produce 80% of the world's tungsten and suddenly they can't export it's only logical that their own prices will plummet. Should they open their exports, their price will again go up to meet the increased demand.
In either case, the valuations used by SML and Zeus were low for this exact reason - we have no idea what the political scene will be by the time we are producing any metal. Being above 1000 will be a great bonus. What matters to me is that we're sitting at below half of the fair price estimate from Zeus' 950 per tonne calculation while we're getting closer to the PFS day by day.