RE: More detailed Q4 update13 Jan 2025 09:18
Great news. It doesn't get much better than this.
So why am I fearful?
I was in ACA. It was another great gold miner - and we were robbed. Governments aren't interested in stealing loss-makers. They want cash cows.
With ACA, there was an initial unjust claim for tax. ACA went to court and won the case. The Tanzanian judge said that ACA didn't owe any tax, they had paid all tax due.
The Tanz gov't backed off, but just for a short while then they hit ACA with the knockout blow, a claim of fraud, that ACA had produced ten times more gold than they had declared.
It still baffles me as to how they got away with that because the processing plant couldn't have processed such a massive amount of ROM. Then there was the energy bill, surely that would have gone up to a ridiculous level.
The only other way they could have produced ten times as much gold was if the grades were ten times higher than the drilling samples and laboratory analysis showed. That doesn't seem realistic to me. Imagine a laboratory getting it so badly wrong, and if it had, then ACA would have sued.
Then there was Ashanti in the early 1970s.
Have a nice day.