No RNS?8 Sep 2020 08:18
All a hoax? Can’t find anything from TW about selling.
This is the only info from end of August. STRONG BUY.
Xtract Resources (XTR) “is pleased to announce… has concluded an additional mining contractor agreement with Longhau Tianci Mining Co Ltd for the exploitation of the Boa Esperanza hard rock gold deposit at its Manica mining concession in Mozambique”… that is not the major news. But let’s start at Boa…
It is a 6 years agreement, with also “performance targets whereby the contract miner will be required to commission a plant with a minimum throughput of 60 tonnes per day within 2 months from the date of signing. The throughput tonnage will be increased to 120 tonnes per day within 3 months of commencing operations”. For the stripped material up to a depth of 30 metres Longhau will retain 84% in gold for services provided and thereafter 74%, with also following Mutapa Mining and Processing LDA’s release of the deposit from its agreement with Xtract it to get 35% of Xtract’s share.
The announcement notes, at 0.5g/t less 20% mine depletion, a Boa Esperanza Inferred mineral resource of 143,000 tonnes @ 0.77g/t gold, giving 3.55koz. However, also “limited exploration drilling has been undertaken” and that which has, “as well as underground sampling, indicates that there are potentially pockets or shoots of higher-grade ore within the overall resource. Also, the Duque gold workings, located 5km along strike to the west-northwest, suggests potential for additional discoveries beneath scree and overburden cover where the zone has been only sparsely drilled or remains untested by drilling”.
This is “an additional mining contractor agreement” since it follows just last week a similar agreement with Longhau for the ‘Guy Fawkes’ deposit – we noted on that it adding to around £0.4 million per month of net cash flow to Xtract we were looking for Manica hard rock collaboration to deliver. We now believe that these additional deals will see that free cashflow at well over £500,000 pcm
There remain risks – with the agreement subject to conditions including obtaining gold trading, mining and environmental licences, their rights of early termination and the main Manica deposit being Fairbride with construction yet to commence on site.
However, AND THIS IS THE BIG NEWS, now Xtract is “also pleased to report that the previous onerous Covid-19 lockdown protocols in South Africa have been reduced and we are confident that border restrictions will be lifted to allow the importing of machinery from South Africa to Mozambique”, with we having noted potential for Manica alone to generate almost £6 million per annum in free cashflow over six years and that before even greater potential seen from copper-gold-silver interests in Zambia and there also copper-gold exploration interests in Australia.
The shares are 1.675p, but the market cap is little more than £7 million. Targeting 3.65p+ and at up to 1.75p STRONG BUY