Open Pit26 Jul 2021 13:20
I must admit, well done to XTR for being open and honest with the figures, so many AIM companies would just give you the headline figure (NPV of $240m), but keep the scenario's private.
Firstly an NPV8 of $240m is pretty damn good going. Considering this is based on a JORC that was done before XTR were even involved.
Total Capex of something like £750m for the project, probably equates to £400-500m build CAPEX. So we are not talking about a mind blowing CAPEX to get started. Further refinement etc would probably bring this down to 350-400m for a joint copper and gold project that's very very cheap.
Having the figures makes it really easy to see how much value WILL be added by XTR and here it's LOM imo. doubling the tonnage, but keeping the mill rate at 20, will have a small effect on CAPEX, a slightly bigger ongoing cost increase, but will massively increase revenue and so the NPV8 figure.
Put simply a fag packet estimate would be that a doubled JORC will increase NPV from 250m to 450m. We are probably looking for a JORC 4 times the current one , as a minimum, which would be increasing the NPV to over a Billion.
It shows very clearly they an increase in JORC will mean this will be mined. You would have to be an idiot to think we havent't already increased the JORC, now when holes 1,2....8,9 etc are released we can literally add up the effect on the NPV and how it benefits us.
One side note would be that although they deserve praise for the details, the presentation from, an easily recognisable WOW, is not so good. This is fantastic news IMO and supports everything that has been said about Bushranger and its potential.