RE: What happened to the cash raised in March?1 Dec 2021 20:30
More than reasonable question F2. They pulled in 4.45m aussie late March, spent 330k salaries, 401k admin and listing costs, and 528k on field activities in the next 2 quarters to end Sept. Total of $1,259k for the 6 months, with 5.5m aussie still in the bank at start of this quarter.
There are bound to be costs incurred for negotiating and reviewing the PPA and CN agreement with Pension Fund, which I expect we will see at end December.
So yes, they pulled in the money in the capital raise to further the TL, but they didn’t really spend much on that yet it seems.
My sense on why the share price has not responded to the PPA and funding news is - Lesedi is a Proof of Concept project and Tlou are planning to link up only an initial 2MW of power to begin with, scaling to 10MW quickly (gas flows permitting) given they are putting in infrastructure with capacity well above that.
But for now, the market is focussing on a small scale POC, probably 2-3 years before first or meaningful revenues.
The Hydrogen initiative is also a POC given Synmet are in process of designing a prototype - so that is probably a year away before being on site (Tlou have a history of being optimistic with their timing).
And that will need money and funding - more equity? More debt? So more cost and dilution before any revenues and cash flows….
Tlou needs to get heir head down now, hopefully share their plans in decent detail and then jolly well get stuck in and deliver !! I