Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose29 May 2025 23:07
Nothing has changed, the status quo continues to exist. George is no doubt comfortable in his rooms at the Chesterfield with meetings arranged with the brokers clients to enable the placing to go ahead on 6th June and the participants to start doing what they do to ensure they bank a profit.
It's remarkable to read here that some believe and indeed attempt to convince others that Glencore will be participants in the upcoming fundraise. I've heard some ridiculous assertions about PREM in the past but this one really does stand out as the most ridiculous. Glencore have absolutely no interest in PREM at this time whereby they would invest £millions or even £thousands directly in the company. Their interest lies simply in Zulu ability to produce SC6 or better consistently and in quantity, nothing more, in fact it would be madness for them to invest any funds directly into PREM knowing, as we all do, that at this time, Zulu is incapable of such production.
Now let's look at the placing itself, 27 billion potential more shares which will, as we all know, be placed at a discount, I'm thinking around 25% of the prevailing share price at the close on 5th June. So assuming at best (and I'm sure it will be lower) the close on 5th June is same as today's 0.025, that results in a placing price of 0.1875 raising before fees a total of £5062500 or $6830325 take away the fees and we're looking at £4456250 or $6147292. George has made it clear that the essential debts owed by the company equate to $10436859 including a contingency so utilising the full 27 billion share headroom at what I consider to be a very very best case scenario the company still cannot raise sufficient funds to meet its liabilities and conduct the work required at the plant.
In my opinion there's absolutely no way that PREM can continue as a going concern with just this raise, George has openly stated that the works won't be completed by July 31st (my interpretation) and Graham Hill certainly won't be taking over any time soon as per his conversations at the Chesterfield with several shareholders.
The continuing drop in SC6 prices already make it unecomical for Zulu to produce even if it could make the grade. There's nothing more to say really other than: Caveat Emptor, In omnia inquire, cultus nihil, tibi putandum est.