RE: Craig Brown - Proactive Video2 Jul 2020 10:22
Morning Boffin, I think that in one interview it was said that it will cost $20-30m to fully prove up Creswick.
With a strike length of 7km I would think that part of it would be proven first and then start to be mined while they prove up the rest of the resource ...therefore the in the ground would be partially out of the ground and the value would start to be realised, although this will take a year or two.
I think that we will give a majority take (70-80%) to a farm in partner, lets for fun say Newmont, who will take the same % of the costs.
So they could initially prove up a half to a third with their £7.5m+ our contribution (so let's make it up to £10m) and then start mining then the real big value will start to be realised. If we start mining phase one then this will fund phase 2 (and some !!!)
And I can see that , if the resource is proven to the levels that we hope, that the partner would look to buy us out of our remaining share.
All pure speculation, but for a $5m mcap company , the scenario above would see ECRs share price in a completely different ball park to where it is now.
It will be interesting to see what the Ballieston deal offer is and if ECR get whatever they asked for (and prove all the naysayers who said we should have just taken the first offer last year wrong).
I am not going to even speculate on what the shape of that deal will be, but agree that a nice cash injection to help strengthen our Creswick resource estimate & bargaining position would be good.