ALR holder 'Helpful's" 17 June 2023 post6 Aug 2023 11:28
"with regard to production bbb does this all the time comes out with something which is then rebutted and then restates the same issue differently a few days later.
so people understand, i own 10.262% of alr and with two mates just over 30% when ab refers to outside investors, it is us. alr, lac minerals and faso were to put together with my encouragement and undertaking what we would co-invest. we have a position in faso too and will likely fund cote d'ivoire now the first licence has been issued.
in each case, the plan has been and will be to get to production as quickly as possible and cheaply as possible so neither rrr or we have to fund it on an ongoing basis. for each there are two ways forward, lots of analysis, lots of drilling and spending a lot of money over several years or just find something that can be exploited and get on with it.
that is what is being applied at tin hill. the site is near to harare, which is about an hour away by road. in harare there are plenty of contractors to supply skilled labour, diggers, dumpers, grinders etc. in fact, everything that is needed at tin hill except the flotation tanks needed for beneficiation, which would need to be ordered or bought second hand.
so the plan is for pretty much all of the doings at tin hill to be done by contractors and supervised by our people on the ground; bashile and julian plus a couple of others. it is going to come down to how fast the contracts can be agreed, signed and contractors get on site. once they are on-site, production will start. the illegal miners have helped us; they have already removed over burden on part of the site and exposed the mineralised pegmatite and extracted some of the spodumene. the stockpile (it is actually physically more than one stockpile as in where they have dumped the extracted spodumene) is substantial and will take several days to shift once sold. so hopefully, the contractors are on site this week coming or maybe the week after. i don't see that it makes much difference and it is not a ****up but merely down to the contractors ability to get on site.
once the stockpile is sold alr will not need any more external capital and should pretty quickly be able to make distributions to us and to rrr.
tin hill is only one asset in alr. once all the paperwork is dealt with alr might have several licences and once cash flow has started be able to do more deals elsewhere.
imho alr is worth several times rrr's market capitalisation even applying a discount for zimbabwe. i expect that rrr will put out a detailed presentation for alr fairly soon but the priority is getting into production not producing pretty pictures.
dyor"