RE: Mather Interview10 Jul 2020 16:23
Good afternoon Earthling, I am not sure we won't sell. I am just listening to what NM is saying and doing. He has done, what most explorers cannot even dream of. He has discovered a world class resource with more to come. He has from the word go, tied in BHP, so they cannot do anything till October 15th. If we had not had Corona, then we would have been further along the curve. That as far as I can see, is the only thing NM has not seen coming, but to be fair, no one did.
We are about to finance the construction of Alpala, We have enough funding for 18 months exploration. We are not in the same boat, as other explorers. We are not distressed, and don't require any more money for the foreseeable future, apart for the funding to build Alpala, which I believe is in hand. Don't forget the book, the distribution of the various holding, make this very difficult to bid for Solgold, otherwise we would have had a bid by now. I believe it's going to become a lot harder to bid for Solgold in the future. What happens if as NM has said, we get very limited dilution. Well we get some dilution if the CGP bid is successful, but we also pick up a decent holding of Solgold shares, and own 100% of Alpala. Let's say we don't get CGP, that one of the companies that could bid for us gets it. Well NM could say dilute 25% and bring in another shareholder like Barrick, and give them a 2 year standstill agreement like BHP, that would make a takeover virtually impossible. In short this can be defended in so many ways, because we are not in a distressed state, and don't need the financing. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind a fast profit, if we got full value, but we won't get full value, with a bid. So I believe NM when he says he's going to production, as we slowly see him building the team, to enable him to do it. All the best.