RE: Price supressed6 Mar 2020 11:02
DRD gold which processes tailings piles all day long has a cash cost of R97/t to process. Goldplat has a 1.1m tonne resource.
That is £4 a tonne and if applied to goldplat would equate to £4.4m to process the TSF. excluding set up costs.
DRD has a cash operating cost of around £643 per oz gold sold - gold is currently about £1200 an oz.
So, we could get around £500 an oz profit from the TSF and assuming they recover just half the gold contained, that is
£20,000,000 profit over the life of the asset and doesn't include uplift in recovery rates, or the uranium and silver.
way, way, way undervalued on the TSF alone.
This is just a peer comparison and nothing more, it could be that goldplat has a higher cost per tonne as the material contained is different - we won't know until they start communicating more details about it.