RE: Zenith - huge losses and debt29 Dec 2024 15:13
Manfor,
If you checked the annual report, the sums are there in CAD.
You mentioned this cost based stuff, as a potential claim value. In practice, while assess the acceptable claim there are many basic principles. Among them are those related and aimed at that calculating and after getting the award, the claimants positions should be somehow zhr same as if nothing had happened to them regarding their investments. Thus if that was the investment of the century, and the claiments could have reached huge profit and having an asset that is much valuable than it was whem the expotriation, abuse of treatys etc happend, then it reqaly might be that arbitrators decide that 10fold or 50 fold or 100 times is due, compared to the original investment.
With gold mines, it is usually the case. (Hopefully to our favouriite of this kind by far, PAT, Panthera Resources vs India, where even 1,5-2 bn might be their claim, after a frenetic gold project )
(Think about it, otherwise all governement would do the same with all the exploration firms and projects.... steal their explorations for nothing.)
Under covid years barely anyone wanted to do new oil expolrations... I remember how lucky I was when bought Shell, Bp, OMV, Total, almost literally at the bottom. Take a look at where they went afterwards.
Br