RE: Scallywag RNS - no rush7 Oct 2020 12:01
Lenz
I'm sure the other mid range gold companies and majors are going to make sure NC do have to properly value any GGP discoveries by putting in bids. They will be pitched at a price that includes building a Telfer equivalent, the cost of a toll processing deal at Telfer, or shipping ore to a Telfer equivalent, for processing, which of course means they will bid less for the gold in the ground in order to still be profitable.
NC have the advantages of only needing to bid one dollar more than the next nearest bid, and they have the right of first refusal too on some of our tenements (but not all).
There is nothing to stop AN Other putting in a brave and generous JV offer early on for Scallywag and then negotiating a toll processing agreement with NC if subsequent drilling proves the resource is there. Newcrest will always make money crunching other people's ore and Telfer, as pointed out on here, has huge capacity that HAV will not fill on its own.
A major wouldn't be so bold to put in a speculative bid, they have shareholders to answer to who would ask why they bought a bit of dusty desert with a lump of worthless granite underneath it if it all went wrong. Someone with deep pockets and a risk taker may try and do an approach.
Either which way GGP shareholders benefit - unless Scallywag really is just a lump of granite and HAV a localised one off freak of nature.