Review of Centamin2 Sep 2021 19:30
1. A significant history of accumulated waste has been stripped out. The first two quarters removed nearly 9 months of previous waste ore not processed.
2. A significant amount of waste ore at 0.47g/tonne was processed. Again fixing the roof as the sun shines.
3. A solar farm contracted that saves $13M in costs per annum. This equates to $30 off AISC costs per year. After 5 years all the capex costs are recovered. The company reduces its carbon footprint.
4. The company is keeping to its targets on production and AISC costs for this year. Future two years give a 7% growth in production per annum and 10% compound savings on AISC for 2022 and 2023.
5. The company has assets to sell of around $40M (Batie West) and on the basis of measured resources in Doropo has $4.8M value of in the ground NPV. It has a future post 2023 potential of $234M at $1450 gold price that may be added in as offset to Sukari mined out material that is not replaced so helping keep a sustained share price value.
6. The west wall drilling which starts again in late Q4 has 2g/t open pit resource of up to 90,000 ounces that facilitates the nest two year growth targets and is far higher than the current open pit drilling that is not from waste is 0.7 g/tonne.
7. The Sukari underground mine plan is to be delivered in late Q4 say to give a post 2023 outlook on production. Investment in Q3 and Q4 exploratory drilling has received a budget increase from $5M to $17M which is likely to yield more ounce and value for Doropo and Sukari underground.
Overall, this is quite a robust stock to invest in and has quite a lot going for it. At a gold price of $1600 in 2022 for example, should earns $96M after profit share or 8.3 cents per share or 90p target price at 15PE on £1.38 to the pound. The value increases 22% for every additional $100 gold price so $1700 average gold gives 109p at $118M earnings and 128p is the $1800 average gold price.