RE: GOLD1 Nov 2023 21:42
It's a frontier country for Gold mining.
They are basically trying to achieve what newly TSX listed Allied Gold has just achieved.
The deal / funds being raised / size of mine and mine life are fairly similar.
What making it more difficult for KEFI is that rather than just one funder coming in alongside the company to put up all the debt, KEFI haven't got any cash to put in so to speak, other than their sweat equity and ownership of the licence (which will be transferred to the JV) over the past decade which is valued at about $90m and the rest is from a consortium of various banks and financiers.
Also the Government and Ethopian domestic banks are involved as I understand one of the terms is that the export trade and FX has to be done via one of the domestic banks to an agency bank in London.
So, it sounds pretty complex and lots of moving pieces and various partners combined with historic domestic unrest has meant that it was never going to be straightforward.