RE: Its the closology2 Sep 2018 20:33
Their won’t be two processing plants, we all know that. In my opinion BGS can go it alone, you can see that in the latest PFS. Now the big money will be in how big the processing plant will be, currently BGS are planning for 2mtpa.
I believe as soon as our JORC is released (I’ll be over the moon for anything above 50mt to start with) this will pave the way for a merger as we can easily take them to 4mtpa possibly 6mtpa.
A 4Mtpa plant, For every 1Mt of ore put through a plant, you can work out the amount of spodumene concentrate you will get, by inputting the grade, recoveries and desired concentrate grade i.e. 200,000tpa of concentrate per Mtpa capacity, a 4Mtpa plant ends up with 800,000 tonnes of concentrate per annum.
Based on the BGS PFS you may be able to produce at $285/t.
Current Price of concentrate is over $940/t. (GXY are currently getting this)
Therefore: ($940 - $285) * 800,000t = $524,000,000 USD EARNINGS PER YEAR.
All to be released very very soon.