RE: The story26 Jun 2023 20:09
I’ve been trying to find some facts in Stan’s “story” and the closest thing I’ve found, hidden among the conspiracy theories and smears, is the assertion that Zimbabwe is a bad place for mining. A few thoughts on that:
1. Clearly some historical truth to the point.
2. Zimbabwe has made real efforts to improve as a mining jurisdiction, with considerable progress made.
3. Bozi recently pointed out that PREM have been doing well there. They’re currently having trouble with their Chinese partner, but that has nothing to do with the Zimbabwean location of their project.
4. Another company doing very well in Zimbabwe is gold miner CMCL, which has the operating blanket mine and three more projects, all in Zimbabwe. Very successful, trades on a relatively high market cap/production ratio. Of particular note, CMCL recently paid $65m for their Bilboes project in Zimbabwe.
5. Tharisa is spending a huge amount of money setting up the Karo project in Zimbabwe over the next couple of years.
So, I don’t think the picture in Zim is anything like as gloomy as Stan-the-shareholder suggests. The real question is whether Kav’s new project has the gold to support a modern mine. If so, this is a great deal. If not, we lose the option fee and the money spent on exploring it. Seems ok to me.