They have tried, I honestly believe they have tried. At7 Aug 2021 22:36
Ever since the 9th October 2017 RNS under Rufus Short, Edenville have tried and tried to get coal out of the ground to sell it in sufficient quantities. That RNS stated "The wash plant is now processing material to fulfil requests for coal that have already been made. Management expects production levels to increase over the coming months and are currently targeting production of at least 10,000 tonnes per month by January 2018." Unfortunately, they just can't do it. They chose the wrong area, exhausted all the coal then had to pay to move everything to the northern area. For over three years they have tried to become a coal mine that can produce 10,000 tonnes a month. They just can't get it right. 11 months ago they implicitly acknowledged that by announcing the hand over of the mine. NvS said that for many reasons coal is not the future, and Tony Buckingham is looking at acquisitions. Some of the best decisions in business are toughest decisions to make. If (when) Edenville can get to 3000 tonnes a month (over what time period? 2 months minimum? ) there is a decision to make with ITIL re hand over.
Is it a) bail out of the agreement b) hand over or c) sell up? Coal has given us a past, it's given us an opportunity to have a future, but it isn't our future.
When will news drop?
Producing 3000 tonnes a month, ITIL will want to know that this isn't a one month wonder, so I'm sure it's over at least two months.
Once the 3000 tonnes has been proved ITIL will then discuss what's next, and make their decision. A big decision, this isn't going to happen over night, why would it, they don't have our interests in mind, it's their money their future their decision.
Acquisition; how long does it take to go find, research, meet with, undertake due diligence and do the legals on an acquisition? On the 24th June Edenville hadn't even started exploring opportunities, they had spoken with Tony Buckingham and looked forward to working with him. Heaven knows when the acquisition side will be sorted.
Three big pieces of news, 3000 a month, handover, acquisition, none of which I can being made in August I'm afraid. Edenville have plenty of money to be going on with, and even if they didn't they are not shy of asking for more from their faithful investors.
That brings us to the share price. This is a news driven share, it once upon a time reacted positively to the suggestions made in RNSs, now it has a feeling that the market doesn't even notice the jam tomorrow suggestions being made time and time again. Unless we get news on cast iron accomplishments rather than suggestions the price will drift. We are seeing over the last week or so, now sub 29p and no buying to prop it up. I'm not sure how low this will go before people think it's s buying opportunity, but right now that buying opportunity is lower than today's price as we can tell from Friday. Price dropped no rush to buy in.
Good luck all.