RE: TSX Australia Mining Investor Day - Sandeep Biswas Interview9 Dec 2021 04:48
I have a decent sized holding in Great Bear. I’m not sure how you draw the conclusion of USD 200 oz for a Tier 1.
Dixie doesn’t even have a resource estimate. The purchase by Kinross allows for an additional premium upon a decision to mine, and IF there is a future resource estimate of over 8.5m oz. Again, there is no current resource, no copper, nothing like that grades at Havieron. If they get to the Feasability studies at some point, it will be difficult to be sub $1k AISC. Dixie is a greenfield project, no plant or infrastructure. Lots and lots of capex and resources required just to get to the MRE stage, much less feasability studies.
As a Great Bear shareholder I’m very ok with this deal; it’s an exploration company that has put a lot of holes in the ground and found decent grades, though no resource estimate, no infrastructure and really no path to production….yet the company was just purchased for $1.45b.
But Dixie is not a Tier 1, and I personally don’t think it ever will be, though it is a very good asset. Dixie and Havieron are night and day. Grades and width, copper, economics, path to production, infrastructure, etc. Very different.