Sept. 23, 2024

2 Miners Battle Short Reports – Who Wins?

We kick things off with the US$175m uranium deal between UEC and Rio Tinto, then follow it up with the fascinating short report that surfaced on New Found Gold (NFG.nyse).

Our final story for the day covers Adriatic Metals, a company at an intriguing inflection point in its journey to becoming a fully-fledged miner.

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(0:00:00)Introduction

(0:02:03)UEC Scoops up Rio's US uranium assets

(0:15:10)New Found Gold fights short report

(0:32:35)Crunch time at Adriatic

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Righto buddy miners.
Sorry lads, those bloody drive

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at the porcelain bus yesterday
for 24 hours.

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I thought I was done with gastro
but since daycare finished but

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it appears not.
Gastro's not done with you,

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Maddie.
It's just been a prick of a

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fortnight.
Wow.

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Oh yeah mate, the big old.
As much as I was spewing

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yesterday, the biggest thing I
was spewing about was not

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getting to mention Axis mining
technology.

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Yeah, like that just.
That's nearly worse than the

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gastro itself.
My daily fix of talking about

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the trusted advisor for survey
instrumentation.

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Oh God, it's like a bloody part
of me didn't exist yesterday.

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Trying.
To do ads without yesterday was

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a bit like a, you know, a Geo
and a driller out on a rig with

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that's not using a champ jar or
a champ already.

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That's it, that is.
I couldn't have put that better

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myself.
Travis, those well said.

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Perfect mate.
You'll see them and the bloody

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every other driller.
I forgot to end drill 24.

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Get your tickets for that as
well.

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We're all going to be there.
I missed plugging them yesterday

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too.
Ah boys, what do we got?

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We got a bit of a uranium deal,
that of bloody battles through

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stomach cramps to analyse in
some way, shape or form.

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But it's a good deal.
I think it is for the value,

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yeah, for what they're getting
and on a dollar per pound basis

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and a plant is a pretty good
bloody bang for buck, I think.

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And JD, you have you've gone
deep into a little short report

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Sunshine.
Very, very exciting mate.

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We're gonna be venture over to
Newfoundland in Canada for a for

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a short report.
So sit tight for that one.

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Travis, what do you got,
Sunshine?

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Mate, the company I'm talking
about was also the recipient of

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a short report earlier in the
year.

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Adriatic bet it was the short
report was probably a bit bit

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weak on, but they faced a lot of
adversity and they hosted this

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investor webinar yesterday
afternoon Perth time.

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And I'm keen to keen to talk
about what the update is because

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there's yeah, there's so much
happened there and it's it's a

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riveting period of time for
them.

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Don't know which way it's it's
going to go yet, but if you just

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oh.
Big between the personnel

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charges like the there's a reset
happening, it appears.

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Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, lots, lots.

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Of change what you got there.
All right, let's RIP in.

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UEC buys Rio Tinto's uranium
assets in Wyoming.

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So as always, since we haven't
talked about them before, give a

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bit of UAC overview before we
get into what the deal is.

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So before today they had go and
just remember North America, US

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and Canada, there ain't shortage
of M and I deals in uranium.

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When you go through the history,
yeah, these companies are formed

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and this is one of them.
So before today they had about

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£230 million in measured and
indicated you throw out resource

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across US and Canada.
So they just recommence

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production at their Wyoming ISR
hub and spoke project and

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looking to commence their second
production area in Texas, not

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yet known when that's going to
happen.

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Both have got permitted
processing facilities.

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The the Texas operation was I
guess the original UAC where the

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Palangana mine produced about a
bit over half £1,000,000 in 2010

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to 2016.
It's not very much over a an

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annual.
No, but it's, it's like

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permitted for frigging £4
million a year.

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OK, they can, they can do there.
So there I guess the, the

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Wyoming portfolio that, that
came about at the end of 2021.

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So UAC bought the Uranium 1
America's portfolio for US 112

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million back in the end of 2021.
That included the processing

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plant.
So Uranium 1 is part of Russia's

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Rosatom.
So that's the same Uranium One

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that sold Honeymoon to Boss
Energy.

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So first shipping a yellow card
out of there is anticipated for

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November or December this year.
So and like for how much they're

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only looking to produce
according to the Canaccord note,

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about £400,000 for FY25, maxing
out at about £1,000,000 for this

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Christensen Ranch.
And then they've got the other

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satellite deposits they're
intending to bring online to

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hopefully ramp up to £4 million
a year for the Wyoming bit, for

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that Hobbensburg part of the
Wyoming bit.

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And I think they've got a,
they're licenced to process two

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and a half million pounds for
the plant, but then they're

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anticipating to increase that to
4,000,000 lbs.

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So uncontracted as well,
intending to sell everything

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into the spot market, which is
interesting.

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Well, and what they call
unhedged in, yeah, I know we say

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unhedged gold odds probably say
uncontracted, but yeah,

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unhedged, same thing but.
That is my, is my understanding

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of like the US producers, right?
I've got this like preconception

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that US uranium producers and
the restart projects, they're

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all kind, there's a bunch of
scattered like quite small scale

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stuff that yeah, that doesn't
like move the needle too much on

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a per project basis.
No, no.

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And I think once these guys
combine, like combine

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everything, so like, you know,
£4 million there probably maybe

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another potentially 4 in Texas,
what extra they're going to get

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out of this acquisition today,
plus any future stuff in the

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Attabasket Basin that I'll go
through, like they might creep

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up towards a double, double
digit producer, but long, long

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way away, yeah.
Not not small on the the market

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cap front, 2 1/2 billion US.
Oh yeah, huge like and lot of

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lot of M&A to to get there and
like there because in 2022 they

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acquired that Rough Rider
project from Rio Tinto.

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Oh yeah, yeah.
So that's the, that was for

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146,000,064 of it was in USA
stock.

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That's in the Eastern Adabasket
Basin.

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That's about £63 million total
resource grading above 3%.

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So it's just West of that McLean
Lake Mill, which is 22 1/2%

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Denison, the restaurant.
So there that's like a tall

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trait.
There's plenty.

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I think there's multiple meals
around there.

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That's one of them because
MacLean, like they told traded

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18,000,000 lbs for cigar like
back in 2022.

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So there's there's an option
there as well.

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And so that's then then 2022
like the rest of their out of

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basket base and stuff.
They've, they took over UAX in

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pretty much the same similar
time that they did the Rio Tinto

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deal as well.
Then they did another bloody

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deal with a smaller one with Rio
Tinto as well.

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So that's how they sort of
accumulated this bloody shit

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loads of # resource.
Common theme here?

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Buying assets from Rio.
Yeah, exactly.

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And I'll, I'll comment on that,
which probably indicates what

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Rio Tinto's thoughts on uranium
are.

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So the deal today USA are
purchasing 100% of Rio Tinto's

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Wyoming assets.
So this is creating like a third

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hub and spoke operation.
So adding to the Irigara, How do

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you fucking say that Irigara,
right or something?

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That's the existing Wyoming one
they got from Uranium One.

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They got the Hobson plant in
Texas.

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This is going to be a a third
one.

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So and they're it, it doesn't
say if they're paying all cash

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or shares or anything.
It just says the 175,000,000

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paid from they're available
liquidity.

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So I'm not sure if it's going to
be they're going to be rising or

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paying cash or offering some
shares.

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Or I read it as cash.
Yeah, Cash, Cash payment, yeah.

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Yeah, I think cash.
Yeah, I couldn't say the word

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cash, but anyway we'll wait and
see if it is.

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So they're because they've got
like the last reported cash and

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liquid assets was US 303
million.

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So 95 cash still got a bit under
one and half 1,000,000 lbs of

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uranium physical.
So that's worth about 112 mil

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spot.
They got 90 million equity

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investments.
So they, I think they, they've

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raised capital each year by the
looks, but then then they did,

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they were acquiring physical
uranium from about 2021 I think.

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And then they sold £3.15 million
last year into the spot market.

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So sold an average price of 52
bucks a pound.

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But I think it ended up being
about a 40 mil profit for him.

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So that's obviously helped a bit
of the cash they've got.

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So for this 175,000,000 US, so
they're getting the Sweetwater

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plant, which is lost its
capacity of £4.1 million.

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It's been on care and
maintenance since 1983.

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Wow.
Yeah, they operate for two

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years.
There's some refurb that might

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be.
Yeah, but they don't, they said

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it's been maintained.
My real standard, it's

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maintained for 41 years.
So and it's so there's there's

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gonna be a bit of refurb there.
No doubt because the licencing

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is is is the.
That's it.

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You just pay for that, wouldn't
it?

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Yeah, so, but it's a it's a
conventional meal, so and so it

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will be if they chew.
So it looks like what they've

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picked up from this rare deals
about half ISR, half

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conventional mining.
So I think they'll have to do a

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bit of they've got to adapt that
plant to, you know, recover

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uranium from loaded resins for
an ISR method.

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So a bit of work to do there.
So, and probably that'll require

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probably additional changes to
the licences and permits.

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So the they said it could take
one to two years or so to get

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all that shit sorted.
So, and they're all so they're

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and within that they're also
getting 175,000,000 lbs of

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uranium resource between the Red
Desert and Green Mountain

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projects.
So as I said, half of half of it

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looks ISR amenable, half open
pit.

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You can see on the, oh, I don't
know, it might be underground

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actually I'm not sure.
It just says conventional

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mining.
So you can see on the tenement

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map here that what USA had
before this acquisition all from

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the that that'll come in from
the Uranium 1 America's

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acquisition in 2021.
So this deal today solves the

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whole issue of not having a
permitted processing facility.

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So that's, that's that sorted.
So they've got a pretty big,

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pretty big holding there.
So waiting for a so you'll be

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waiting for a restart decision
for this acquisition, which

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will, you know, probably go
through in November or so.

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But before that, we'll likely
hear a restart decision for the

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Texas operation by the year end.
So that that's licenced for £4

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million that Canaccord night
said it realistically only

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produced about £2,000,000 for
the first two to three years.

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And yeah, so, yeah, good to good
to see some uranium M&A that

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makes the geographical sense
you'd say.

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This is the first one to make a
lot of.

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But like if you look at, I think
they're pretty much paid a

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dollar a pound for the resource.
And then the processing facility

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is as well the per you're paying
for the permit, obviously.

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Yeah.
So yeah, it looks pretty bloody

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real.
Like take it, catch you later.

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So I think it's, yeah.
What did they sort of say about

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a a restart decision mate?
What's the what's the kind of

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plan on when they want to press
go?

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Oh no, it just I think they what
did they say?

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They got to obviously delineate
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resource do the studies and
everything for the for the

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restart.
So I think yeah, it wouldn't be

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not not a year or two away I'd
say, especially if they got to

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convert the plan or or anything
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So yes, but they're just growing
by bloody acquisition as you

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say.
What did you say to and a half

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billion dollar cap are they?
Yeah, jumped to a 12% on this

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one.
So the market kind of liked it.

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I think everything, everything
uranium jumped last night, still

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got a bit of a bit of a bloody
Three Mile Island, bloody boost

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up the backside.
I think had two good nights on

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it.
So that's going to be yeah,

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going to be going to be
interesting though.

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That's right, mild thing.
I was just we were talking to

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Trev about it.
It was it was interesting to say

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that you know, the whole
everyone's been talking about

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the structural supply deficit
for so long.

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So no, there's not going to be
enough pounds to go in and all

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this, but nothing sort of really
moved the needle yet on a big

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take off for uranium.
But it look, look at the

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reaction that the market had on
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One just saying like probably a
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capacity coming online.
So that's all right.

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They, they will need pounds Big,
big tick for the whole data

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centre thing.
The fact that Microsoft are

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putting the cock on the block to
say now we want to secure this

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plant to supply a data centre
that sort of validated a bit of

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that thesis a bit.
So it looks like, yeah, it was.

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It's got to be interesting to
see what comes out with you, the

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rest of your your Amazons and
your Meta and everyone else is

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going to be in this whole data
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is just one of them.
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they were keen on it and there
was a bit of a, a tick up across

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all the U stocks, right.
And then this one's, you know, a

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bit more concrete.
So you can see that the real

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kind of kick up.
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interesting to see what the
others start doing and whether

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whether there's any sort of
capacity within the US for them

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to you know, fast track permits
or anything like this as the the

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tick up in power demand is
pretty substantial over the sort

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of coming five years, right?
Yeah, exactly, I think.

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And we're still yet to see the
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this 5-6 years down the road.
So Mike, it could be a big back

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end of the year.
Oh no, like this USA thing,

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we're obviously our network is
in North America is obviously

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not what it is in Australia.
So it's probably not in the

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weeds as as a hoped.
But I do want the American

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listeners to tell us who is the
American equivalent to MMS in

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regards to open pick contracting
because like this is when

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they're talking about the
conventional Hard Rock mining

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and the race start and
everything.

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I'm thinking MMS, but I'm like
who's the American equivalent?

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It that's a really hard
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No one comes to mind.
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Because if we don't find out who
it is, we are going to be pretty

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much forced to get MMS to expand
into North America to fulfil the

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potential for this nuclear
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So.
If they have, I think.

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They're pretty, pretty
unparalleled, Maddie.

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I think so.
I don't think yeah.

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I don't think there's a direct
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that.
Their competitive advantage is

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being like nimble, flexible,
just getting on with it.

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So, you know, if if there isn't
a contender in the United States

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and it kind of just makes sense
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Logical job, logical growth,
expansion.

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Yeah, yeah.
You think the likes of like, you

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know, your black cat, your red 5
Corinthian, mine and Legacy on

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or Carora before they got taken
over like they've all, they've

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all had the early contracts with
MMS.

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They're going to be at the pub
in future saying we had the

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first ever open pick contracts
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It'll be like a a badge of
honour for them and that's when

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MMS become an absolute
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international mining services
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That's where we're going, that's
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I would recommend getting on the
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out there.
I'm excited to be on the

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journey.
I love it.

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Righto JD the buddy.
It's a bit of real North

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American feel today.
Love it.

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We're heading to the Far East of
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Oh, newfound land.
Yeah, this one, this ones really

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up our alley.
So late last week, I think it

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was Thursday, but Friday our
time in Australia, a, a short

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report surfaced for this, this
company new found gold.

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So on, on the day on the
Thursday in North America, they

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sort of peeled off 5%.
They sort of recovered a bit on,

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on Friday and then they, they
peeled off another couple

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percent yesterday.
But I'm, I'm pretty excited to,

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to talk about this one guys,
just sort of sifting through

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the, the short report.
I think there's a a good bit for

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us to kind of tuck into.
But who?

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Who is new found gold?
Mate, I've had to, I've had to

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do a bit of reading myself, but
they're, they're not a tiny

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company market cap over 700
million.

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They they own the Queensway Gold
project, like you said, Maddie

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Atton, Newfoundland with a, a
market cap that was well over a

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billion bucks in, in the past
year.

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So as you can see in the in the
chart there, it's been up and

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down a bit, but they've got some
sort of A listers, if you like

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on the, on the registry.
Eric Sprott holds 19%, as the

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company's pretty keen to point
in, point out rather.

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And he sort of tipped in 260
million bucks over 5 different

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rounds over a number of years.
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And then you've also got
Palisades Gold.

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So they own about 27% of the
company.

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They they're sort of largest
shareholder owning 28% of them

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is Colin Kettle and he is the
CEO of this group.

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So a bit to a bit to kind of
work out there.

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But you know between the two of
them, they're speaking for about

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50% of the registry.
And like, yeah, kind of hinted

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at before Maddie, these guys are
Canada listed on the the TSXV as

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well as on the NYSE, the.
Palisades Gold is that is that a

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fund or is that what is
Palisades?

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So Palisades is itself a listed
entity and they hold stakes in.

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Yeah, obviously their their
biggest stake is in, in this one

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here, but they got stakes and a
whole portfolio of of warrants

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and other sort of Knick knacks
in Canadian juniors.

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Gotcha actually.
Gotcha.

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You only see it on YouTube, the
Palisades Gold Radio or

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whatever.
Is that the same?

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Yeah.
Is that the same?

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Yeah, they've got a, they've got
a podcast and A and a YouTube

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sort of channel as well.
Gotcha.

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Kind of like us.
We, we, we just don't own 25% of

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any companies other than our.
Own no bit of a difference.

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So let's get into the the report
now there's you know that the

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key critique here is that this
is a super sort of nuggety gold

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project that lacks continuity in
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These guys have drilled over 500
kilometres and they haven't

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chucked up a resource.
So that is the yeah, that's the,

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that's the stand out take away
you get in the first few dot

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points of that short report.
I think it's 5. 100 kilometres

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is that is so much drilling.
That's like it, yeah.

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That is so much drilling.
Do not do not provide a

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resource.
It is indeed.

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It takes years to do that much
drilling like.

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Well, they, they picked up the
asset in sort of 2016 and over

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time added tenements and a few
other bits and pieces around it.

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But 2016 is when it kind of
started.

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And then they've got, you know
what, what they kind of call

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discoveries sprinkling in every
every other year, starting sort

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of the 2019-2020 in 2020.
From then to the next year, they

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jumped 10X on some of these, you
know, discoveries as they call

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it.
Obviously the, the short report

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is pretty critical of these
discoveries as you can kind of

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go and read, it's pretty easy to
find.

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But yeah, they, they really just
highlight the, the lack of

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continuity, the the fact that
previous owners had kind of

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drilled in these areas and it
was to be expected on some of

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the the hits that they were
getting.

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Interestingly, on the, on the
more corporate side, you've got

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4 sell side analysts covering
the stock.

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So BMO Paradigm, Roth and
National Bank of Canada and

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their target prices, you know,
haven't been updated in a little

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while, but they're all sort of 2
1/2 to 3 1/2 times the the

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current price and that just sort
of crank one open.

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I found this pretty hilarious.
So the, the name of the research

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entity that has written the
report is called Iceberg

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Research.
And the most recent title, which

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came out over a month ago, so
well before this report, is

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called just the tip of the
iceberg.

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That is unfortunate.
See how good's that?

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Right?
But who's who's actually shorten

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it, JD?
Yeah, so, so disclosed upfront,

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these guys Iceberg Research,
they've they've written the

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report.
They are short the stock

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naturally like you get with a
lot of these short sellers, you

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know, specialist short sellers,
not hedge funds that run a, you

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know, a short book as a part of
a broader portfolio.

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But these guys are pretty,
pretty undercover.

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It's hard to find too much
colour about them.

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There's a.
You know that that is one of the

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big criticisms of groups like
this.

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But you know, historically
groups like this have kind of

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copped it quite a bit as well.
So there are kind of good

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reasons for them to be pretty
private about things.

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But first and foremost, they
have a financial interest in

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saying that the stock go down.
The one bit of info you can get

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is this sort of pseudonym of the
founder guy called Arnold

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Wagner.
And he's he's actually got a bit

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of a history.
This is really interesting.

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So he wrote a series of short
reports about Noble Group.

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I don't know if that rings a
bell for you guys, but they were

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a a huge commodity trader and he
started writing these reports in

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2015.
They at the time were a big

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publicly listed company led by
this billionaire founder who'd

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started the company in the 80s.
There was a giant of the

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industry listed in Singapore,
and he accused them of

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accounting fraud.
Noble then accused him of being

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just a disgruntled former junior
employee.

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But you know, history sort of
showed it ended pretty, pretty

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nasty for Noble.
They ultimately delisted.

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The stock dropped 99%.
They had to do a massive

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restructuring with obviously the
the equity kind of getting wiped

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out in the process.
So the piece Arnold might be

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might have been right.
But it does look that way.

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See, the, the, the crux of this
report is they've done heaps of

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drilling and never provided a
resource over all this time.

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Plus, you know, you've, you've
got like real doubts about the

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continuity of the the ore body
that maybe the market's

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factoring in there is that is
that like as far as the report

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went?
Yeah, so the, I mean, the title

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of the report is lies,
misinterpretations and a

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professional stock promoter.
So that, that kind of tells you

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a bit, mate.
It goes a bit beyond the lack of

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continuity.
As we said, they've done a heap

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of drilling.
They're on their way to 650

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kilometres still with no, no
real plan to whack a resource

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around that.
You've also got the fact that

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the British Columbia Securities
Commission pulled them up in

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2022 for smearing.
So these guys then had to go and

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correct a number of the reports
that they put out, though the

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short report says they didn't
even go and correct all of their

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statements.
A lot of them are still pretty

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misleading.
And you can sort of work that

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out by marrying up the more
detailed technical reports with,

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you know, shorter announcements
that they'd put out.

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And for those sort of wondering,
smearing is essentially trying

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to make those high grade hits
look like they spread over a

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kind of wider area to make the
continuity look better than it

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might actually be in in reality.
They're also kind of accused

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00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,520
them of presenting the cross
sections really poorly,

429
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,560
presenting data very poorly.
So it's very hard for analysts

430
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,840
to go and actually see what's
going on.

431
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,240
And of course, like I said in
the title, being led by a Korea

432
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,920
stock promoter.
So this point is super, super

433
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,000
interesting and I won't go into
the whole history of the, the

434
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,840
managing director, the CEO like
the report does.

435
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,280
You can just easily go in and
read that one.

436
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,160
But the, the interesting point
is that both the chairman and

437
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:27,200
the CEO play pretty important
roles in the mining news sort of

438
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,560
world in, in Canada.
So they are ownersofceo.ca, the

439
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,760
Northern Miner, mining.com and a
few other groups.

440
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,800
So to be fair to them, I did
read an article in in mining.com

441
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,880
about this exact story.
How to disclaimer at the bottom,

442
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,800
they weren't trying to defend
anyone.

443
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,160
They just sort of represented
the facts.

444
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,920
So you can see a good bit of
independence in the reporting

445
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:54,680
there.
But it it does kind of show a

446
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,000
bit of a conflict of interest
in, in my opinion, the fact that

447
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,960
these guys have those stakes in
those those media companies and

448
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,280
that kind of ties in well with
one of the key accusations that

449
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,880
they are, you know, a kind of
slick marketing machine.

450
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,960
If if you like, I'm not sure if
you guys had kind of thoughts on

451
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,160
that.
I think if you're talking led by

452
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,720
a career stock for a promoter,
think of Ivanhoe.

453
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,560
Good on Robert Friedland.
Yeah, stock promotion isn't sort

454
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,520
of, you know, by by itself a bad
thing.

455
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,880
And it's in part pretty
necessary in the industry,

456
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,040
right?
You, you need to make a name for

457
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,520
yourself.
It, it becomes blurry if you're,

458
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,800
you know, if you're
misrepresenting the facts, not

459
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,360
accusing them of doing that
here, but it's a, you know, it's

460
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:47,640
an interesting sort of line to
to balance and sort of walk.

461
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:52,240
Yeah, well, maybe 22 comments. 1
is that to do that much drilling

462
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,080
and not put out a resource, it's
just absurd.

463
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,920
I can't, I can't, I can't, I
can't fathom it.

464
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,920
If it was an ASX company, we'd
have called it out yonks ago

465
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,560
like.
And then the other point is

466
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,960
often see this a lot,
particularly with the Canadian

467
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:11,280
companies is like, you know,
when you hear you hear a lot of

468
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,680
the promotion of certain stocks
go something along the lines of

469
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,080
this Eric Sprott's invested in
it or Rick Rules invested in it

470
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,400
or you know, XYZ kind of Ross
Beatty's invested in it.

471
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,320
There's a lot of like this this
kind of like trying to convince

472
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,080
retail or the public by
leveraging on someone else's

473
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,920
reputation who is an investor in
it.

474
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,560
I think like, I just think like
overweighting that sort of

475
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,640
signalling is, is really like a,
a, a yeah, a kind of a bad

476
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,640
strategy if you base your
personal investments off of it

477
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,680
because you know, it, it devoids
yourself of making your own

478
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,960
investment decision based off
your own due diligence.

479
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,600
And reality is like, I can
remember another thing where

480
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,320
Eric Sprott was a big
shareholder in and it lack

481
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,760
continuity.
Anyone else remember Novo

482
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,000
resources, the nuggety
watermelon seeds?

483
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,640
Like, you know, so I just yeah,
like I, I've got no idea how

484
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,440
this will all unfold, but you
know, there's I just, I just

485
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,560
hope that people don't get kind
of sucked into investment

486
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,640
theses.
But the big selling point being,

487
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,280
you know, one of these big name
people is a is a back rather.

488
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,200
Yeah, I, I think people probably
automatically think they say

489
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,240
those names and that they make
an assumption they're thinking,

490
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,040
right, that big name has done
their due diligence and thinks

491
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,160
it's their next big thing.
So that's like whether that's

492
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,080
the case or not is the unknown
thing.

493
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,880
And I think they how much weight
that you put to that.

494
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,320
And then but then realistically,
like you get that friggin market

495
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,280
flow behind it.
They're like, oh, sprouts in and

496
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,480
oh buddy, and then everyone
starts going and just make sure

497
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,680
you get out.
Yeah, I think, I think that's a

498
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,160
great point, Maddie.
You see that all the way

499
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,560
through.
You see that with people

500
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,080
pointing to debt investors say,
oh, they, they did the work,

501
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,840
they've got, you know, the
availability of way more data.

502
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,120
Let's just piggyback on that.
And on the point that you raised

503
00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:01,600
travel, so a really good one,
but you don't know the, the

504
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,240
price that some of these guys
bought in at.

505
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,080
You know, they, they know the,
the weight of their name and you

506
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,120
know, not not accusing any of
them of anything, but they might

507
00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:12,000
have picked up warrants, they
might have come in on a

508
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,280
placement or something like
that.

509
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,880
So you need to be pretty
cognizant of all of those

510
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,120
things.
So to kind of round out on, on

511
00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:23,200
the company, they haven't put
out any response, which is also

512
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,920
somewhat bizarre to me.
It's been a number of days now.

513
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,960
And it's not like they don't
know about it.

514
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,800
Obviously they came out and
posted new drilling results

515
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,320
without, you know, not even a, a
kind of cursory acknowledgement

516
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,560
of the, the short report
floating around, which I find,

517
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,000
you know, interesting to, to
kind of say the least.

518
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,840
So what, JD, have you got any
what, what, what these

519
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,720
intersections are like, what
grades we're talking about or

520
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,520
thicknesses?
Absolutely.

521
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,760
So to, to give an example of
the, the kind of smearing

522
00:27:55,040 --> 00:28:01,000
accusation before they're sort
of .4 metres by 400 grammes per

523
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,480
tonne and they've been
represented as two or three

524
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,600
metres by 50 grammes per tonne.
You know, that's the kind of

525
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,160
thing it's, it's super high
grade.

526
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,600
You know, they, they speak about
it as being a quite a, a nuggety

527
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,960
project, but perhaps that isn't
kind of weighted, but there are

528
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,880
supposed notes out there you can
go and see.

529
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,640
Yeah, I suppose.
I suppose technically that is

530
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,880
that would be the reserve grade
of it because you'd have to,

531
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,920
that's what you have to mine to
get it out.

532
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,720
So it's sort of technically
correct.

533
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,320
Like if you got .4 / 400, you
got to take it out at a three

534
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,360
metre start.
That's probably what it would

535
00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:37,080
be.
Yeah.

536
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,760
I mean that the onus is kind of
on them, right to, to put out

537
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:46,360
the to put out a, a resource in
a bit of a, a shape, right that.

538
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,440
Yeah, yeah.
And that and that doesn't like

539
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,920
that's that's a reserve that's
not a resource should be the

540
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,400
most accurate description of
combined.

541
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:55,840
Yeah, Yeah.
What's in there?

542
00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,040
And to, to the point of the, the
resource, again, there was

543
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,840
technical experts that these
guys hired that said they can do

544
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,760
one for 300 grand.
These guys have spent 10s of

545
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,040
millions of dollars on drilling
and they themselves said it'll

546
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,480
cost $300,000 to do a resource.
You know, they're not, they're

547
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,360
not without the, the, you know,
the, the resources, pardon the

548
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,800
pun, to do a, a resource
estimate.

549
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,720
They will have the grade and
tonnage that they'll know all of

550
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,760
this.
They'll want to know whether the

551
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,760
additional drilling that they
are they are doing is adding

552
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,280
value overall to the project.
And you as a shareholder, you'd

553
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,040
want to make sure your capital
being invested every time these

554
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,640
guys do a raise is being
adequately and appropriately

555
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,560
allocated to the different sort
of projects that they have

556
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,160
there.
So I mean, you, you've got other

557
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,800
red flags as well, which kind of
stand out, the fact that they

558
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,320
were pulled up by the regulator,
the fact that they're making the

559
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,080
data pretty hard to collate.
They've got a big at the money

560
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,480
facility, which is, you know,
something I'm just not, not kind

561
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,320
of a fan of.
So there's a few kind of hairy

562
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,560
things about this one.
Sort of, I would kind of steer

563
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:07,680
clear.
But if you're a shareholder,

564
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,680
you've got a clear set of
questions just to go and ask

565
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,960
management and hopefully they
can address them one by one and

566
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,760
just listen to listen to what
they have to say.

567
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,520
I'd be very keen to hear how
they, you know, pull apart this

568
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,280
report and what they say to it.
Best practise is to yeah be

569
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,280
iterating your internal resource
model as your new hits kind of

570
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,080
come in you're you're not it's
not like these discrete kind of

571
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,760
things where you go, you know
got to do my 5500 kilometres of

572
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,200
drilling and then do my resource
model.

573
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,040
You kind of like you put it, you
put it, you know you do it all

574
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,400
at the same time You got AG is
on the rig, you're putting in

575
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,840
your yeah, your data and all
that sort of stuff it's.

576
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,760
What would you think about the
exploration?

577
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,320
Thought the buddy try and fail
or whatever.

578
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,440
What what was your what was the
saying?

579
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,040
Bloody OH.
Fail fast.

580
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,560
Fail fast.
Yeah, there doesn't appear that

581
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,720
they've taken that approach if
if it is a there is questions on

582
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,680
the continuity.
But yeah, we don't know until we

583
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:08,360
see a resource if it yeah, if it
proves proves to be nothing,

584
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,560
which I'm sure there's something
there, but bloody K drill could

585
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,880
have told him after 50
kilometres of drill and if

586
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,240
probably go elsewhere. 50
kilometres.

587
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,160
Instead of 500 that'd be like
mate this doesn't look like it's

588
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,160
stacking up.
They have integrity as a

589
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,960
drilling business.
They do in bloody Australia or

590
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:31,120
North America where they end up.
They drilled some bloody Arsene

591
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,960
dominoes over the years, those
boys, They could, you know, they

592
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,080
talk about your leapfrog and ore
body.

593
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,400
Yeah, you can K drill an ore
body because they're watching

594
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,400
the bloody chip, the RC chips
and the core come out.

595
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,920
They've got a mental map of what
that ore body looks like before

596
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,400
it even gets aside those plugs,
right?

597
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,200
Years and years of experience
they and ripping blocks.

598
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,600
They wouldn't make things like
this just wouldn't happen on

599
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,440
their watch.
Now they wouldn't.

600
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,800
I'm sure they'd love the extra
450 kilometres of drilling, but

601
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,560
the biggest thing about K Drill
is their reputation.

602
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,000
They don't want anything to
bloody into that.

603
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,840
Give all Drewber an email.
He's in the show nights.

604
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,760
You might get some exploration
holes out of him.

605
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,400
You've got him a record thing,
yeah.

606
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,320
Record matters.
Record bloody record say.

607
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,720
I don't know if there can be a
record for sample management

608
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,080
process, but these guys that
have it.

609
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,520
Record safety and record for
just good yarns with over a

610
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,280
beer.
Walking away feeling good about

611
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,200
yourself?
Yeah, Yeah, I've never walked

612
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,240
away feeling bad about myself
after talking to Ryan or Druba.

613
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:39,240
Thank you, lads, said Maddy.
Travis Adriatic, a bit of an

614
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:44,000
operational update for the
Bosnian mining producer.

615
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,120
Yeah.
This is it's.

616
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,880
I'll be following Adriatic
closely and.

617
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:49,720
Haven't yelled about him for a
bit, have we?

618
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,120
No, no, yeah, but but still
following.

619
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,880
So, you know, yesterday
afternoon they they provided

620
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,320
this operational update webinar
to shareholders.

621
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,560
So of course, I tuned into the
webinar because, you know, I

622
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,840
think we have, we've covered a
bit why Adriatic is in, in that

623
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,360
fascinating phase of its life
cycle, right ramp up.

624
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,360
And they've, they've had some
real obstacles to navigate in

625
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,400
this phase.
I'm probably missing a bunch of

626
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,120
these obstacles, but I'll, you
know, in, in quick kind of

627
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,720
summary, the obstacles that I
can remember are, well, they're

628
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,800
developing a mind in a country
that hasn't had a mind

629
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,160
developing God knows how long
ground support challenges

630
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,440
getting through the early
development works, minor

631
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,280
contracted challenges resulting
in Adriatic bringing in house

632
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,360
instead.
Tragic death of a of a, you

633
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,960
know, a, a local contractor on
site.

634
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,040
They've been the the recipient
of their own short report.

635
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,320
They rejigged the kind of, you
know, mine reserves plan, but

636
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,920
generally like like lower grade.
And you know, there was

637
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,640
previously there was a ruling by
the Constitutional Court of

638
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,120
Bosnia which effectively
suspended the felling of trees,

639
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,360
which which impacted Adiotic
permanent tailing storage

640
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,680
facility at Veresh, the the
waste rock storage at Rufus and

641
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,280
the location of the planned pace
plant.

642
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:03,200
So and then in the last five
months, Adiotic, CFOCOO and CEO

643
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,440
have all resigned from the
company.

644
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,199
Now there's an interim CEO, an
interim CFO at the helm.

645
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:14,480
Interim CEO is this ex BHP
bigwig Laura Tyler.

646
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:19,000
She was a non executive director
at Adriatic for only six weeks

647
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,280
before becoming interim CEO.
Meanwhile, the interim CFO is

648
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,639
Michael Horner, who was
previously heading up Adriatics

649
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:29,800
business development function.
Unlike Laura Tyler Michael

650
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,800
Horner, he he he'd at least been
an Adriatic for a few years

651
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:38,239
beforehand, and he forked up
$100,000 of cash to buy more

652
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:39,840
shares in Adriatic yesterday.
Oh.

653
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,639
That's good, good sign of
confidence.

654
00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:43,400
It's.
It's probably also worth

655
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,480
highlighting that even with all
of that Adriatic share price,

656
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,320
it, it isn't all that far off
from its all time highs.

657
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,199
Like it's somewhat it's been
somewhat resilient in in sort of

658
00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:56,520
recent history.
You see in the Spark chart in

659
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,560
Australian dollars $3.58 today.
That's versus an all time high

660
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,560
of $4.90.
And and kind of that gives the

661
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,320
company a fully diluted market
cap today of about 1.2 billion

662
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,600
Australian.
And that's after the stock

663
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,320
actually bounced today up 9% and
the short interest has climbed

664
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:21,440
to 7% of the of the CD is alone.
You can just see that kind of

665
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:22,880
short interest chart kind of
flying.

666
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,200
Particularly interesting is the
the shareholder on the register

667
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:32,720
that appears to be buying into
the fear, L1 Capital, an Aussie

668
00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:35,280
hedge fund.
I feel like we mentioned L1

669
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,960
Capital always and he's like,
yeah, really interesting points

670
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,240
of time.
I kind of just bet against the

671
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,480
fear.
They go against the grind.

672
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,320
We'll I'll do it with next Gen
too I think.

673
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,560
That we're kind of doing that
sort of, I remember them being

674
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,680
kind of, yeah, near the top sort
of being laid about next Gen and

675
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,600
then when they've had some
powerless as well, but

676
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,840
especially mining, but you know,
inaugurate their returns are

677
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,280
pretty good.
So L1 capital, they appeared to

678
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,400
have been buying in February,
but they ratcheted up pretty

679
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,520
consistently.
They now have 36.6 million

680
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,960
shares or about 11% of the fully
diluted share capital of

681
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,560
Adriatic.
So that's the title, not just

682
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,600
the Cdr, exactly the total.
Yeah, yeah.

683
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,760
Meanwhile, Orion, who, who has
the the debt facility with the

684
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,920
Adriatic, keep in mind they've
been trimming their, their

685
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,520
equity position of apparently it
was around 8.3% around a year

686
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,440
ago, but but today per sort of
Adriatics website, it says their

687
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,600
stake is 3.7%.
So you've got the, the debt

688
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,240
finance here sort of sort of
trimming.

689
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,840
Although apparently Orion, I,
I'd heard, I'd heard previously

690
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,680
they were, you know, trying they
were starting a new fund.

691
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,320
So they were realising kind.
Of.

692
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,960
Stuff, so don't know if there's
a read through there or not, but

693
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,600
pull that out of the way you
can, you can kind of see why

694
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,560
Adriatic is, is really bloody
interesting right now, can't

695
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,440
you?
Very much so.

696
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:03,160
They're at, they're at a very,
yes, they're at a very like a

697
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,480
reset point in a in a way with
all, with all that happening.

698
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,960
And because it wasn't like like
brilliant grades there.

699
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,360
Like they're the best thing they
got on their side is the grades

700
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,680
of the the ore body.
But the challenges they went

701
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,440
through getting the capital
development in for the ground

702
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,720
conditions, obviously pretty odd
and all those other things you

703
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:22,840
mentioned.
And then, you know, tough for

704
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:28,600
you've got expat people were
living over there to run this

705
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,280
company in Bosnia, which
presents its own challenges on a

706
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,040
personal level, which I'm not
sure if that's the case of

707
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,880
what's happened.
So it's yeah, it's, it's a tough

708
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,080
one to maintain long term
consistency with.

709
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,560
I think it's a big ask.
Yeah, I don't even know.

710
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,160
Like it's has there been a
single, you know, mine developed

711
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,320
in the past, like, you know, two
to three years it hasn't like

712
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,960
that has been smooth.
It's like I can't remember one

713
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,360
that's in recent history that's
been smooth.

714
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,880
It's been a long time since 1's
been smooth.

715
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,800
Right, Carla Winder.
That was that was 20/20/29 like

716
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:04,920
so then so you got to go back a
fair while and and then, you

717
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,200
know, if, if a typical company
kind of building a mine and

718
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,480
developing faces just one of
these issues, it's a pretty

719
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,800
fucking like, you know, it can
be pretty, pretty tumultuous

720
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,920
that they're just is a lot to
sort of, you know, juggle as a

721
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,080
as a single asset developer and
hence.

722
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,720
Fascinating how yeah, how how
resilient the the stock has been

723
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,320
in amongst all those sorts of
challenges.

724
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,400
Obviously they they really
ticked up when when Bayes metals

725
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:34,000
performed really strongly in
sort of may ish period in the in

726
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,240
the sort of three months in and
around then.

727
00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:40,600
But with all, all the challenges
that faced that, like you said,

728
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,600
still, you know, within touching
distance of all time highs

729
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,080
performing really strongly.
So what what did you sort of

730
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,800
make from tuning into that
operational update that they

731
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,600
kind of provided?
What were the the takeaways you

732
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,480
had?
I, I was expecting like a, a, a

733
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,600
bit of a detailed kind of
operational update to to, you

734
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,240
know, come out in the press
releases, but it was, it was

735
00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,120
actually like a slide deck with
three real, real pages in it.

736
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,640
And the webinar was largely AQ
and a where sort of substance

737
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,880
came from the answers.
But I'll play this opening from,

738
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,520
from Laura.
This is what she opened, yes.

739
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,800
I've spent the time working
through all of this and I see no

740
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,920
fatal flaws.
No fatal flaws.

741
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,920
It's a it's a relieving message
to get no fatal flaws.

742
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,920
Yeah.
It's like a Yeah, an independent

743
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,840
technical experts like no fatal
flaws report that you get to

744
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,840
sign off on.
But like, I think in a nutshell,

745
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,560
to summarise all the all the
stuff that came out, Adriatic,

746
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,720
they finally started stopping.
Hence you can see this big leap

747
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,880
in, you know, the ore tonnes in,
in, in the month of August

748
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,880
there.
Apparently the the first stop

749
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:47,040
had a few issues, to quote
Laura, she said a few issues

750
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,880
pulling through the slot against
the fault boundary of the ore

751
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,680
body.
Apparently the design has been

752
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,240
tweaked to prevent that issue
from the second stop.

753
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:55,320
But Maddie, what does that
actually mean?

754
00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:00,920
Well, the slot is the it's your
first voyage you create.

755
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,600
So I like to start firing
everything into.

756
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:08,600
So they'll Chuck a box hole up
like A1 metre, usually A1 metre

757
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,440
bloody void, circular void, or
they'll drill a long hole rods

758
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,240
with Ravens and all that.
But if you if you sort of got a

759
00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:20,640
fault, a fault running through
the if, if that is the case

760
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,440
against the fault boundary of
the ore body there unless

761
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,680
there's a fault running through
where they're pulling it through

762
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:30,600
that that fault is like a.
Can discontinue things so when

763
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,560
you when the explosives go off,
the energy might dissipate out

764
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,480
through the fault and not
actually blast the rock fully so

765
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,880
they might have like bridged it.
Usually if there's an issue with

766
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,880
the stope, it's always it's
being bridged, which means that

767
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:47,160
instead of bloody 20 metres came
out, only 15 come out or

768
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,640
something, then you got to do a
lot of work to try and get the

769
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,360
rest out.
So that's, I'd say that's what's

770
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,000
something like that has
happened.

771
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,480
But if they've had issues it
just means it hasn't pulled to

772
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,040
hide or something like that.
Such a yeah, faults and friggin

773
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,440
contacts and stuff through the
middle of not fun.

774
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,760
Exact bit of a pain in the ass,
yeah.

775
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:12,520
So on the guidance, so the all
tonnes of production, all tonnes

776
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:17,320
kind of guidance for Cy 24 is
now lower than previously

777
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:18,600
flagged.
They now say it's going to be

778
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,400
180,000 tonnes versus the
previous range lower bound,

779
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:28,080
which was 240,000 tonnes.
And and while like last time

780
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,000
they got it grade as you can see
in this this slide here, the

781
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,760
guidance update that they they
put out sort of yesterday didn't

782
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,360
include guidance of grade.
The other bit I found that I

783
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,480
can't quite piece together on on
the guidance is, you know, you

784
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,280
can see in the in the slide deck
they put out yesterday, Adriatic

785
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,840
explicitly says that guidance
for Cy 25 is unchanged, but they

786
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:53,080
say it's unchanged at 750,000 to
800,000 tonnes.

787
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,160
But if I flashback up the, the
prior guidance, which I'm, I'm,

788
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,040
I'm snipping from the equity
raise presentation, the upper

789
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,880
bound is actually lower by
50,000 tonnes.

790
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:07,800
So unless I've missed something,
Cy 25 guidance is in fact a bit

791
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,680
lower too to the, to the TSF
issue, right?

792
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,760
Because this is a been a big
spanner in the works to have to

793
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,720
deal with this constitutional
ruling.

794
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,120
So Adriatic Day, they, they say
they have this alternative

795
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,800
location for the TSF now, which
will be two kilometres away.

796
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,880
So they expect construction
approval in October.

797
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,000
Keep in mind that's going to be
after there's these municipal

798
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,400
elections I've googled and
they're on the 6th of October.

799
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,360
So I suppose they're expecting
the newly elected officials to

800
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,720
be speedy quick into the into,
to sort of get these, these

801
00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:44,760
approvals sort of done.
And then when I say the

802
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,280
construction will be completed,
like going to aim to complete

803
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,480
that by the end of the year, If
they can execute that, that'll

804
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,480
be a pretty remarkable kind of
time frame to, to, to do all of

805
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,000
that.
You know, meanwhile, the, the

806
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,960
temporary TSF, which they're
using at the moment, it's near

807
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,960
the plant that hits capacity in
Q 12025, which I imagine is a

808
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,040
pretty, pretty big motivator for
that speedy timeline to get, you

809
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,080
know, approvals and construction
all sort of done by the end of

810
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,480
this year.
So I hope, you know, hopefully

811
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,600
they can achieve that without
the any interruption to

812
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,640
production, right.
Adriatic, they, they addressed

813
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:21,160
the, the TSF like I talked
about, but like I said that the

814
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,120
location of the pace plant is
also an issue.

815
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,160
And you know, this work stream,
Laura said it's actually on, on

816
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,560
hold for the time being, like
work at least construction and

817
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,080
see why 25 is on hold with the,
with the constitutional ruling.

818
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,160
They say they're looking at
alternative locations for the

819
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:39,200
pace plant And but they, this is
the, the interim solution.

820
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,000
I'll, I'll, I'll play.
I'll play for you.

821
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,520
What you said there.
We always had plans to use calf

822
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,880
or cemented aggregate fill in
our Stopes.

823
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,920
So the processes are in place to
do that.

824
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,760
We you know we'll use obviously
some of our own, some of our

825
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:58,080
waste rock as as aggregate as
well as import some quality

826
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,080
aggregate.
We've got all those contracts in

827
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,520
place that work has already is
already commencing for the first

828
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,200
stop.
This was always in the plan.

829
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,640
We just now have to extend the
calf placement for an additional

830
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,760
few months, but we don't see it
as being a long term solution

831
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,360
and we will move to having a
paste plant as the long term

832
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,720
solution fulfilling all of the
Stokes.

833
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:23,920
I was keen to to leverage your
expertise again, Maddie.

834
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,240
You you boys should have enough
after the last year, right?

835
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,960
He's got a sub Did he?
What it like what are what are

836
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,240
some of the challenges like
using calf over the long run

837
00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:37,440
instead of paste and like you
know, what are the issues if

838
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:40,920
they can't, you know, get a pace
plan up in a medium term

839
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:41,680
timeframe.
Yeah.

840
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,680
So it depends on where it's
being deposited into the stove.

841
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,560
So like CAF is cemented
aggregate fill, so it's like

842
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:53,960
crushed rock down, whereas CRF
is just like they'll just blast

843
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,840
any waste heading, tip it in a
stockpile, mix it with cement

844
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:02,200
and water and tip it in.
So CAF is like if you're

845
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,040
importing aggregate that
obviously costs a bit yeah, you

846
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,840
need another you need extra
loaders to tip it into the

847
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,640
Stopes.
And then if you're like tipping

848
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,240
it in from the front of the
stope, you can only get it to a

849
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:16,720
certain point for the real
angle.

850
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:19,920
Then you got to advance the tip
head forward to sort of fill the

851
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,400
whole thing because you're in a
you're going to be and depends

852
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,720
if the grounds assuming all the
ground is still supported above

853
00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:28,800
you.
So there's challenges there.

854
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,080
So it takes, it's takes longer
to put it in, tipping it in with

855
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:37,000
a loader compared to a like pace
just pumping it down because

856
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,320
pace you're just using the old
tailings.

857
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,320
There's obviously the capital
for, there's capital for the

858
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,680
pace plan and then the
reticulation to put in.

859
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,480
But you do, it's the quickest
way to get it, to get it in

860
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,360
there.
And it's a a lot easier product

861
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,520
to develop back through.
So whenever your pace fill is

862
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,160
stoked, there's always a chunk
that you have to develop back

863
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:01,840
through usually to go and access
the next one, usually on the

864
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:05,680
sides of it.
So that's and trying to trying

865
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:09,600
to bloody develop back through
calf and CRF as a nightmare.

866
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,600
Oh, trying to you can't throw
owls in or you're just trying.

867
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,160
Yeah, because it all just falls
back in.

868
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,720
It's a fricking not.
It is a friggin nightmare.

869
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,880
Yeah, just got to put stoke
Proms in there and blow the

870
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,760
living fuck out of it.
Pretty much yeah.

871
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:26,200
But then if they, it depends if
they set like funnel enough

872
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,720
Olympic dam, what the fucking
how big that joint is.

873
00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:33,840
All those stoves to to my
knowledge, there's no pace plant

874
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,160
there.
All those stoves are filled with

875
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,600
there's just friggin ball holes
from the surface and they have a

876
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:44,120
big quarry on top.
And that quarry just mines

877
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:49,040
waste, produces aggregate and
there's just edges that tip calf

878
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,200
down those ball holes to fill
the stuff.

879
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,120
It's just this big massive
surface operation that just

880
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,440
keeps tip and calf down these
ball holes.

881
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,240
So that's how Olympic dams
actually feels.

882
00:46:58,240 --> 00:47:02,680
It's not filled by paste.
So it depends on, not sure that

883
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:06,080
they're depending on how the all
bodies are set up, if that'll be

884
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,200
an option here.
But usually if you got to do it,

885
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:09,600
you got to tip it from
underground.

886
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:12,320
So it's just a bit of a, it's
just slower, which means it

887
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,280
slows your production profile
down a bit.

888
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,080
You can't get to the next step
as quick as paste.

889
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:21,400
You can, you're jamming in over
1000 cubes a day.

890
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,600
Whereas Kathy Martin when I get
500 in or something.

891
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:25,440
Gotcha.
So.

892
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,040
Yeah, yeah.
God I'm starting to forget all

893
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,440
me, underground mine and shit on
the bloody washed up husband.

894
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,400
So half, half of it's probably
wrong these days.

895
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,560
Yeah.
And we're like when, when she

896
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,240
when they described the three
things that were impacted by the

897
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:42,840
court ruling.
Yeah, 1 was the the tailings

898
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,800
facility, the other one was the
location, the pace plant.

899
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,440
But it was also mentioned that
the the long term waste rock

900
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,680
storage near Rupus would was
impacted.

901
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,440
But on the webinar I didn't, I
didn't hear anything about what

902
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,120
the workaround was for that in
the webinar.

903
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,680
But yeah, maybe, maybe something
else has been guided separately.

904
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,040
I don't know.
Well, that's the one benefit of

905
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,880
doing CRF is that you don't have
to take as much rock to the

906
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,320
surface because you get to use
it to backfill the types.

907
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:09,480
OK.
So, yeah, and Betty in, in the

908
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,800
past when we talked about this,
you, you've drilled down on the,

909
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:14,560
on the development, right.
So they were kind of getting in

910
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,000
a, in a, in a tough ground.
It sounds like the, the rates

911
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,240
that they had in the DFS, which
were 600 metres, sounds like

912
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:22,920
those numbers are kind of null
and void.

913
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,520
And they've got sort of, yeah,
they've readjusted to a, a new,

914
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,000
a new normal.
I'll, I'll play what Laura says

915
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,240
about that.
So with the development,

916
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:35,280
originally the schedule for
development to bring production

917
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,440
in required a much higher rate
than was achieved, like a

918
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,640
significantly higher rate than
was being achieved.

919
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,320
So that development has been now
basically achieved over a longer

920
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,200
time period.
What it does mean though is we

921
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:52,520
need to be at 300 plus going
forwards the rest of 24 and then

922
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,560
into 25 and beyond.
In some instances where we're

923
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:01,080
opening, opening up brand new
kind of access it through the,

924
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,080
through the decline.
We might have, you know, slight

925
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:08,480
variability from one month to
the next, but that 600 metres

926
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:11,680
is, is no longer required.
That was the initial requirement

927
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:17,080
that we needed in order to to
start the date the, the stopping

928
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,120
up.
We've now got stopping in place

929
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:20,800
and we we're looking at the
schedule.

930
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:25,560
We believe a 303 hundred plus is
going to be what we require

931
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,560
going forward to 24, the rest of
24 and into 25.

932
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,440
I don't have the fine detail in
front of me right now on, on a

933
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,560
kind of like the monthly rates
as we go forwards, but looking

934
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,600
at an average of 300 to 350
through 25 is, is what we are

935
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:45,960
expecting to see and to require
to to maintain production.

936
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,000
It's avid obviously their
comment about opening up the

937
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:54,920
additional decline levels and
accesses because from what from

938
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,480
what we know we are, we did
speak to the company about it,

939
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:03,240
is that all the shit ground is
in the capital and the waste

940
00:50:03,240 --> 00:50:07,560
area outside the ore body.
Where is the ore body itself?

941
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,280
Sounds like pretty standard bolt
bolts and mesh.

942
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,120
So the, your development rights
when you get in the ore will

943
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,040
jump up a lot higher.
They, they naturally do anyway

944
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,280
because it's a, it's a smaller
excavation.

945
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:20,560
There's usually multiple of them
together.

946
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:24,040
But then the extra, the better
ground conditions as well.

947
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,960
So I think that variability
they're talking about is if they

948
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,720
have to do anything in those
capital areas, that's where it

949
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:31,680
really slows down 'cause that's
where they got to put the

950
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:35,600
bloody, all the shit loads of
ground support the concrete sets

951
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,360
in the in the sections and and
things like that.

952
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,080
So that's a way our knowledge
the actual ground is a lot

953
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:44,880
better in the ore.
So it should be a day.

954
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,520
The capital is the bottleneck
there, capital development.

955
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,560
Yeah, Yeah.
And like with all that sort of

956
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,840
sort of said, you know, that
they're still stating that that

957
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,440
they they're going to achieve
sort of statutory commercial

958
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:03,640
production by year end, but sort
of think Q1 onwards doing that

959
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:07,840
800,000 tonnes per annum is, is
what they're sort of signalling

960
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,080
to the market.
I think like the next chapter

961
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,240
for Adriatic is, is unwritten
and many different views make a

962
00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:18,200
market.
And, and I'm so curious because,

963
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,120
yeah, like I say, it's in that
it's in that ramp up phase grade

964
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:22,560
is forgiving.
They got great on their side,

965
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,920
but there's a so many like
there's so many like, you know,

966
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,960
obstacles that they have faced
and and, you know, still

967
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,040
continue to face, you know, I
don't know, in a country that

968
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:36,040
doesn't have like, you know, a
really thorough kind of mining

969
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,400
economy like Australia.
Yeah, no, they and this, but

970
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:42,160
this sensitivity do like you
know, grade is forgiving, but

971
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,480
you think of when you're running
a, you know, 800,000 tonne per

972
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:48,560
annum really high grade.
Like imagine if like your grade

973
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,360
doesn't reconcile to what it
should be and recoveries,

974
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:55,200
recoveries and there fuck it can
it can swing so quickly.

975
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:56,880
Totally could go the other way
too.

976
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:01,080
And on the recoveries, like
they're aiming to increase them

977
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:05,640
to 70% in Q4 and they haven't
been out, they're still running

978
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,800
the plan on campaign mode.
They haven't sort of they're

979
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:09,160
hoping to kind of tweak that
over time.

980
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,400
But Laura even made the comment
that they never did a pilot plan

981
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:13,920
kind of thing.
So a lot of the stuff they're

982
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,440
doing now is kind of pilot plan
task.

983
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:20,040
So, you know, I think there's,
there's reason to be kind of to

984
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,200
have question marks on what,
what is the long term recovery

985
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,720
going to be as well, because
it's it might still be uncertain

986
00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:27,480
if how much the plan can be
optimised.

987
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,240
Yeah, yeah.
Bloody good stuff.

988
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,240
Yeah.
Just put up a preso from about a

989
00:52:33,240 --> 00:52:36,680
year and a half ago and you can
see 2024, this was meant to be a

990
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:40,760
year of 284 millions in post tax
free cash flow.

991
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,560
So it's amazing how quick things
have kind of turned.

992
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,800
But you know, they're, they're
still going pretty decently

993
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,080
strong and here's kind of hoping
that they can, they can pull

994
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:53,600
through with the, with the
grades and everything there is

995
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,960
still the the opportunity for
pretty strong cash flow in the

996
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,480
in the near term if they can get
it right.

997
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,200
Yeah, repetition as well.
When you're dealing with that

998
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,560
shit around and everything like
the fact that they've done it

999
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:05,880
before now they now it's there,
they know what to do.

1000
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:09,800
That's should be on their side.
The big risk that I see is just

1001
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,320
any blowout in the timeline of
that TSF, right?

1002
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:16,480
Because it to me felt pretty
ambitious to have that kind of

1003
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,760
solution solved by the end of
the year.

1004
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:21,760
But but saying it would be done
by the end of the year, allow

1005
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,040
them to say there'll be no
interruption to production,

1006
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,680
which, yeah, is like would be a
relieving thing for shareholders

1007
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,600
to hear.
I can't help but think it is.

1008
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:32,360
It would still be, you know,
kind of an ambitious job to

1009
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:33,600
happen.
And, and there might still be

1010
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:38,320
some uncertainty around the, you
know, the, the ability to to

1011
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,520
build it in the way that they
want and all that sort of stuff.

1012
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:41,800
So.
Their God, they might have to

1013
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,560
revert to what, like your Pogo
and that have to do where

1014
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:49,760
they're all tailings have to be
deposited underground, which not

1015
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,120
feasible in an early stage mine.
I think it's when you got a

1016
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,640
historic mine, you can just
start filling up levels and

1017
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,000
yeah, and shit, I think that's
doable, but it wouldn't be

1018
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,760
plausible here, I don't think.
Yeah, yeah.

1019
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,920
Debt repayments start at the end
of at the end of this year,

1020
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,120
December 31.
So, yeah, and they've still got

1021
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:09,160
a $25 million undrawn facility
with a, with a Ryan that sort

1022
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,720
of, yes, depending how things
go, they might they might have

1023
00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:16,200
to dip into that too.
But yeah, we'll wait and watch.

1024
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,840
There there, God.
Fingers crossed.

1025
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,120
As I said, always ramp up like
this.

1026
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,600
Bloody rooting for you, I hope
it works.

1027
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,440
Oh, very easy, hey?
Jesus cross these bloody stomach

1028
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,200
cramps.
You know the the metaphor for

1029
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,360
the stomach cramps?
Like like there's a jaw crusher

1030
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:36,120
with a shit load of mesh and
bolts stuck in it and I need old

1031
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,120
miles contracting to come and
RIP it out.

1032
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:44,360
You'll love that shout out Mossy
killing me.

1033
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,080
Righto.
Oh, thanks to the bloody

1034
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,840
partners.
Bloody sorry, sorry.

1035
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,480
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up.

1036
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:57,160
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1037
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:01,720
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1044
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1045
00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:33,840
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1047
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,920
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