RE: Ethiopian mining and kefi9 Sep 2023 12:42
Part two
(Slide six) no way the country is gong back to the authoritarian rule (of the previous government tplf). Its been a struggle for the mines ministry to get its head around our business but there is a sincere desire to make it happen its going to happen.
Saudi is a bit similar, but the flip (not the bird) for mining has happened by royal decree so some of the problems we had there for years have flipped to the better by royal decree. We are rock stars in Saudi with the next two development projects we are the technical guys in the JV with Artar. This region is going to come alive.
Project over view (slide 8) we have a string of three projects..TK gold where we have literally have lawyers for African banks and lawyers for central banks beating each up as we speak (now I would pay to watch that) sorting out the final detail on exchange controls (joking apart a thumbs up report came in after this presentation). Its the last big hurdle…we have been given a clean bill of health on the technical side by the due diligence people, by the banks that are putting up two thirds of the money and the security people.
We have two projects behind that in Saudi one will be triggered next year one twice the size of TK.
(Slide 9) Todays market cap vs NPV opportunity to create wealth from derisking the projects (slide 10) comparison to other mining companies a lot of upside.(slide 11) you do not need to bring capital to the country (probably mean mainly Saudi) and in Ethiopia are partners are government related and development banks, leading contractors to the country both of whom are in the audience PW mining and lycopodium mining ad we have brought the capital to the country from regional people.
(slide 12 milestones) the key milestones are really for the company is to close the financing documentation for TK. We signed our umbrella agreements in June we have lawyers crossing swords on the fine detail now we hope that final approvals will be issuing within weeks (this was before report from banks so that timescale may have just shrunk) then final documentation executed shortly there after and we will be launching within months.
slide 14) Strong board.
TK good first project to start with ore body not far below surface (whizzes trough the slides) market cap of Amak that is in production is 1.4 billon I think, the Saudi market has gone cracker its hot. Our first project (in Saudi) is a string of pits (JQ string of pearls) the second one is a VMS (Hawiah)just exposed a new VMs deposit (Chefs kiss)
I am pleased we kept this number of people back at the conference to listen to the story.