RE: NMG24 Apr 2016 15:03
Exactly how long and at what level of expenditure (the 0 capex argument doesn't hold water because it still costs money to extract resources from the ground including drilling) will it take, do you think, to extract 50% of the stated copper and 100% of the stated gold given that nearby mines have been operating for over 20 years?
Divide your income by the number of years and deduct the costs that you haven't accounted for.
You are citing retail value of metals as some sort of key factor in this company's valuation when they have said that at best they would be selling ore at the mine gate. How much you do think they will get for every tonne of rock and when do you think they'll get paid for it?
Cobbled is accurate, it's cobblers.
1) generous considering how much money has been thrown at this entity over the past 5 years and what has been produced
2) reach or commence? Since apparently there is a difference between reaching production and actually producing
3) please remind me where 3 starter pits in production by year end came from? Share the quote.
4) what grades at surface? How much revenue is expected from first truckloads of ore? Do you really believe that high grade ore at surface has been sitting there all these years (soviet drilling dating back to 60s/70s) and no one has even scraped the surface. Worse still..the owners of the project who spent millions on it sold half of it for a song? That doesn't seem like very clever business since it's so easy and cheap to extract. It'd be out of the ground by now,
5) there is a processing plant. That's not 0 capex. Drills cost money, trucks cost money, the technical analysis costs money, playing solitaire on the iPad on flights back and forth to Perth to see the fam costs money. Do you think they just buy half a 'project' and then money lands in their bank account? Clearly the latest fund raising suggests that there is a need for capital expenditure for this project
6) that's a very neat way to swerve the fact that several millions of pounds worth of fundraising went into not one, not two, not five but 6 Austrian projects and not a single resource estimate was created. That it still needs 'grass roots' exploration begs the question what the hell was going on in Austria all that time. Skiing and apres ski I expect. Btw..it's not really grass roots when it's so far up a mountain that you can only work for 4 months out of 12
7) where does it say that a 30 year mining licence cost $56m? That seems rather pricey for a piece of paper.
8) can't wait for this ... Are we talking July , August or September here? I want to set my alarm for the news
9) which larger pits are these? Have they been defined? You sound very sure of it.
10) I found this via Google http://www.proactiveinvestors. co.uk/companies/news/46036/nyota-minerals-pettman-and-churchouse-retire-54924.html
Seems he didn't retire after all. Generally the phrase 'retired due to restructure' means 'kicked out'. Got any more cob