Podcast Summary6 Apr 2023 16:06
Its long - nearly 40 mins. A fair bit of what we know already. Final 10 minutes if anything are the most useful. A few notes below for those without 40 mins to listen to the whole thing. (Also summarised points at very bottom)
- Darryn states a good level of interest from other parties in Hong Kong, and there was surprise at how advance the project was. States he has follow-up calls to make with some of those parties
- Re. the Cap-ex, they had to get it released, but there is still going to be some further work re. the heap leach that could reduce the Cap-ex further and they will continue to work on this
- Some Op-ex costs coming down now compared with earlier this year particularly Amm Nitrate, and also diesel
- States they have addressed the points made by the ITE last time round, and feels they will have satisfied the ITE this time
- Current modelling for NPV and IRR is 'pretty positive' compared with the 2019 study. Did not elaborate on this - unclear if he means better than 2019 study or nearly as good; could be interpreted either way
- 'Range of options' for financing which can start after FS release
- Bank/debt finance awaiting FS
- States 'a lot of interest' for cathode offtake, 4 groups interested already, these will (potentially) do further due diligence after the FS, but some of those groups have done some diligence already
- Alternative 'creative options' also on the table for financing at KSK or company level - didn't really elaborate further on this
- No time lines suggested on financing (not unexpected I suppose)
- States DOID still very much interested. States they too are awaiting the FS but expects them to 'close out' with respect to taking their 2 board members
- Asiamet want to tap in to DOID's connections so still see this as a good tie-up
- States DOID's 3 mil investment in November was critical for completing the FS
- Darryn wants to see the SP turn around, and states 'I will be buying more shares' once out of closed period which he states they are currently in
- Early in the podcast he avoids giving a timeline for release of FS however late in the podcast he states he expects to be able to buy shares in April - this to me suggests he expects to release the FS in April
- States has a meeting with TM next week to deliver the information on the FS to him and that they are 'really close to closing out' on the FS
- Long-term target of 60k tonnes of copper per year (or copper equivalent - I wasn't quite sure, but equally wasn't that bothered either - one step at a time...) - but states got to get the first project up and running to release the further potential
For me, the take-home is that they expect to release the FS in April (inferred), interest levels in Hong Kong were good, DOID awaiting FS until committing further but remain an interested party, and modelling for NPV and IRR are currently 'pretty positive' compared with 2019 (but this statement is open to interpretation)
All done