RE: 10 January 2025 deadline6 Dec 2024 17:19
Hi Ben
The problem is that the offer is part of a rescue to save the company. Let us assume offeree agrees with 2.67p =$25M and all the other debt is say $170M. It has an interest rate on top of it. The offeree has also another problem of several years of no income from the project to remove debt and then finally earns money. The reserve life is 6 years for the new mine. For simplicity lets say they get 100,000 ounces out a year and make $750 ounce profit per ounce and it can all be used to get rid of debt and debt interest. Year 1 has $195M debt after going private take 7% interest per annum= $208M debt - 75M profit = 133M year debt start of year 2. Following year 142M -75M debt = $67M and by end of year 3 the company has $4M shared with governments to give a net $2M. The following 3 years after tax, royalties and additional capex just in maintenance etcetera $105M profit say at the end of 6 years. This equates to 17.5M a year. The company original $95M and all what they gave to Coris and other debtors tied up $170M on investment for 6 years to earn $105M. The rate of annual return becomes just over 10.25% to pay against all those high private investment salaries. In my opinion, if you get an offer of 2.67p. I would grab it and run.