Before I sign off22 Aug 2024 22:13
Anglesey Mining has a long-term partnership with QME, an Irish technical services company, to assist in the development of the project and the contractors have an option to earn-in 30% of the project in return for self-funding the underground development.
"QME is part of the DNA of the underground project already, and would likely tender for the development of the project when that time comes," Battershill says.
"The QME earn-in option means that a significant amount of the pre-production capex is potentially underwritten already. That would obviously mean some dilution, but it would ensure the project is developed by a very credible and experienced mining team.
"From an investor perspective, this should bring some confidence that Anglesey Mining will be in a position to close the large gap between our market capitalisation of £9m and the NPV of Parys Mountain implied by the PEA … even if we did end up with 70% of it."