8 Fascinating Reporting Season Details
Today we mixed it up by hunting down the 8 juiciest snippets from reporting season. Companies included Rio, Glencore, Sandfire, MAC, Zimplats/Implats, Lynas, FMG & Ramelius.
In addition, we yarned about Genesis’ decision to pull forward Laverton.
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(0:00:00)Introduction
(0:00:55)8 juicy reporting season details
(0:01:11)Rio on M&A
(0:04:55)Glencore on copper, cobalt
(0:08:43)Sandfire on debt
(0:12:22)MAC's bush maths
(0:14:10)Lynas on opex & NdPr
(0:18:16)Implats PGM outlook
(0:23:58)FMG's iron ore outlook
(0:27:26)Ramelius's margin
(0:29:16)Genesis pull forward Laverton
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Righto buddy miners.
Another week, another week of
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bloody money of mine.
Top shelf info coming up then
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good old bloody.
Speaking of top shelf, Axis
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mining technology drill hole
server instrumentation gurus.
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I'm not giving much away, but
there might be some new shit
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coming out.
I look forward.
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To it.
That is all I'm saying.
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Gone from the best to even
better.
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It's like ranked one to ranked
zero, even higher than one boys.
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What do we got for today?
We are going to start with a bit
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of a sort of recap in a way of
the reporting season, Maddie.
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We're going to highlight eight
of the most sort of interesting
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or fascinating talking points or
details that we didn't have time
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to get into over the past month.
And then I think we're going to
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move into a bit of Genesis.
Better, better Genesis.
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Bit of bit of news there.
I'm I'm doing a lot of
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inferring, pardon the pun.
We'll see.
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We'll see if I'm right or not.
I'm looking forward to seeing
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what you've drummed up there,
mate.
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Yeah, kind of big news,
actually.
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By JD so and Travia is a this
interesting details of reporting
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season, which is most people
would look at and think, jeez,
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that's a lot to read, but you
handed it to him on a platter
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here, take it away.
What's for the entree?
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You're dead right, Maddie.
You can be a bit weighed down in
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the in the detail by just the
sheer volume of information
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coming at you.
But we've tried to pick out a
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few things that we found
interesting as we were kind of
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re listening to a few of the
calls and you know, perhaps
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looking at a couple of slide
decks.
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So the first one is from Rio
Tinto and it was it was an
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interesting call that they put
on.
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This was almost a sort of month
ago roughly now, but in this
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sort of recap, I thought it'd be
worth highlighting their kind of
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perspective on M&A.
So there was an interesting
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question put forward by James
Redfern of B of A and they're
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sort of talking about M&A paying
a premium on a deal and
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synergies and all these things.
So let's hear it from them.
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Yeah.
I think you made some comments
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earlier that in terms of any
potential M&A that the potential
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synergies need to exceed the
potential premium paid, which is
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often quite difficult.
I mean, if you know, if you take
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Tech Resources for example in
the press couple weeks ago,
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market cap 25 billion at the
Epson premium would be 7.5
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billion.
So could you potentially extract
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cities exceeding 7.5 billion in
that case?
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And I've got a follow up.
Thank you.
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Yeah, that's a that's a tough
one, isn't it?
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The, the, the reality isn't I
have spent my career in a number
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of different industries and in
some industries you have a high,
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high percentage of, of, of
synergies.
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In some industries you have a
smaller percentage.
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My experience is that here in
mining, it's not often that you
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have, have a high percentage of
synergies I call compared to the
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to, to enterprise value.
And that's why it's quite
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difficult actually to pay high
premiums.
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There are exceptional cases, but
they have to be exceptional.
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So it does seem kind of obvious
when, when he says it like that,
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that the synergies should
outweigh the premium.
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Obviously there's the the kind
of caveat, if you're just
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getting an asset or a company or
whatever at an astoundingly
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cheap valuation, then you know,
you might not need the the
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synergies to make up for it.
But in the context of Rio Tinto
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and all these major miners,
they're often talking about
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copper and copper assets just
don't come cheap.
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You know, they're all got pretty
premium valuations on them.
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So I thought it was a pretty
interesting comment.
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I'm not sure if you guys had had
thoughts on M&A at the big end
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of town or in general there?
Yeah, they're big companies.
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So 30, you know, we've seen a
lot of the small cap gold is all
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going 50% bromium, but you won't
be saying that I don't think on
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this Rio Tinto sort of scale.
No, yeah, no.
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But it's, it's kind of an
interesting perspective, right,
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Because it's like the, the, the
implicit assumption in that
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statement is that you're, you're
paying for the market value of
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anything where it's trading at
any present time before you,
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like a lot of your, your bid is
the, the fair value.
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But of course that, you know, we
know there are dislocations from
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fair value from time to time and
they might present opportunities
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too.
But it's, you know, I think it's
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a, a sound heuristic to, to
navigate through it if you are,
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you know, ACEO or management to
kind of avoid kind of paying,
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paying up when it's unwarranted
and then having regret
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afterwards.
It's it's funny Speaking of that
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about the timing, like if you if
you anyone that buys a pays a
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premium for a copper asset.
Now I think we can nearly
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comfortably side right.
This is, you know, not counter
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cyclical, but it's part of a
it's not copper is not at the
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high.
Whereas you look back at, I
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think I've got the number right.
When the North Queensland asset
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that Paladin bought, that's in
the portfolio, when they bought
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it at the top of the uranium
boom, it was 1.2 billion for
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that asset.
Really.
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Yeah.
Like not even that's like before
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it all went to shit in.
I know it is Pukashima.
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Yeah.
So there, there's and there's
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your different sides of the
fence there of what people pay
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up for at the time.
Rios got a few, a few of them to
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their name as well.
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Being countercyclical, yeah.
Exactly.
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Being countercyclical in mining
is is almost everything.
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Yeah, on to the next one.
Glencore.
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Yeah, this is just an
interesting snippet from from
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Glencore CEO Gary Nagle.
He's talking about two different
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commodities here, cobalt and
copper, kind of side by side.
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Thought it was just worth taking
a listen.
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So any structure supplied
particularly out of the growth
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in supply from 10K and Kassamfu
in the DRC, but the demand side
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looks pleasing.
All three buckets of demand,
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aerospace and defence, EV and
you know, home, home user goods,
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all are looking very good.
So as that demand grows and the
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growth in supply starts to
steady up and it will steady up
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because cobalt is not like
nickel in Indonesia, where
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there's just new deposits being
developed and ready to bring to
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market anytime Cobalt does, you
know, it is, you know very well
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there's a byproduct out of DLC.
There's not too much growth
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beyond what's coming on now.
So we wait our time, we buy that
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time for demand and demand
supply to get back into balance.
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And wherever, whenever that
happens, we see a structural
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upside to to copper pricing.
And copper with the 3rd or the
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4th one that you mentioned, I
mean, everybody's British
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copper, everybody wants to get
into copper.
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We're really obviously very
large in copper with a million
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tonnes of copper production and
another up to 1,000,000 tonnes
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of growth, as you rightly say,
low capital intensity and mostly
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brownfield.
So that is that is certainly
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very exciting.
And in terms of demand for
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copper, we still see that as the
backbone for for decarbonisation
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going forward and particularly
the new industry.
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You know, people worried about
China, but one thing about
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China, copper demand remains
strong because the spending on
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grid is, is very strong.
Spending on AI, data centres,
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renewable infrastructure and the
likes is very copper hungry,
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very copy intensive and that
still has a long term, very
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bright future.
Yeah, I thought that was
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interesting.
Like like on the cobalt front,
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like thing called whenever they
talk about cobalt, I'm, I'm
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sorry, intrigued because, you
know, quite often what comes out
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is this, you know, intentional
strategy of, of curtailing their
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own selling of cobalt into the
market.
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While it's that sort of, you
know, depressed prices and they,
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they, they wait for yeah, kind
of a healthier environment
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before they start sort of
selling.
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And, and it's just, it's a
reminder that, yeah, not too
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many miners have the luxury of,
of doing that, of like kind of
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playing the waiting game with,
with the, with how they actually
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sell into the market.
You know, most, most miners kind
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of have an obligation to keep
selling to, to fuel their, their
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costs.
But Glencore, it's got a yeah, a
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much more like luxurious
position on that front.
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And then on copper, just kind of
some of that rhetoric about, you
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know, AI data centres being
being copper intensive, I found
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kind of interesting.
That's just the theme that's
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going to keep keep growing and
keep playing out.
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Is, is the growth of AI, AI.
Data centres are E VS 3 years
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ago.
Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, it was fascinating in the
the economic outlook that BHB
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put forward.
They spoke about copper demand
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for AI, you know, end users and
data centres essentially being
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1% of copper demand currently
and projected to be, you know,
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circa 6% by 2050.
So that was an interesting pull
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through there.
They're saying it, obviously
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they're priming themselves as a
copper company and on the cobalt
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front and more in the context of
controlling or curtailing your
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supplies, as you put it.
It was very interesting.
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I was going to play a similar
snippet from Linus who are kind
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of talking about a similar kind
of thing, not wanting to flood
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the market.
It's an interesting dynamic from
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being at the other end, you
know, when you're a commodity
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producer and just have to sell
it, you need the money versus to
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sort of hold it back and just
not flood the market.
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Yeah.
It'll be interesting to see what
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that means for Marin, Marin for
Glencore, because obviously
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nickel in the toilet, it's a big
ladder, right deposit, but it's
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the biggest producer of cobalt
in Australia, that operation.
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So I'd be interested to see if
what that means, if that will
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ever get curtailed in this
environment or not.
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But it's fucking big thing to
Qatar, yeah.
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It's a it's it is big kind of
when you think of the operation
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and stuff, but it's a rounding
error for.
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Great.
Yeah.
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It's like it's like nickel W for
BHP.
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Effectively, it's fuck all.
All righty, on to the next one.
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So this one's really
interesting.
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On Sand Fire, the question comes
from Matt Chalmers at B of A and
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they're talking about Sandfires
net debt position.
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So they closed out FY24 at
roughly US $400 million in net
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debt.
That was a sort of beat on
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expectations, although there was
some CapEx that was moved from
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FY24 into the next year, the
year we're currently in.
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But a lot of, you know, kind of
bullish talk about them moving
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toward a net cash position and
dividends.
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So let's hear the question and
discussion.
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Just on the, you know the desire
to DE gear as much as possible
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before switching to dividends.
I mean, is there a is?
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That still the case in terms of
you'd like to fully, you know
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fully pay off the debt.
I mean, is there not some level
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of healthy level of gearing that
you'd like in the business in
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terms of the longer term cash
structure, you know, while still
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paying out of DIF?
Yeah.
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Look, great question and I don't
want to sound flippant, but it's
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not a conversation we've really
felt we need to explore deeply
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at this stage because it's clear
to me that the most important
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thing for us to do is to de gear
and move back towards net cash.
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I have a personal view that that
mining companies historically
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have underestimated the the
impact on your cost of capital.
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If you compound what is deep
operating encyclical price
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leverage with financial
leverage.
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I don't believe personally that
it is actually the way to
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optimise your capital structure.
But but again, we'll be
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obviously pragmatic and we'll
continue to consider the
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outlook.
The only other thing I'd say is
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one of the lessons in life for
me is, is always be very clear
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that you when contemplating
dividends, should be
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contemplating returning cash
that's on the balance sheet, not
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cash that's perspective or
you're hoping that you'll
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generate.
I really liked this this answer
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for a couple reasons.
So firstly, the the way and the
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experience that Brendan Harris
has around operating a mining
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company or that he's developed,
being an analyst and then
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working within BHP is really
interesting.
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And I, I guess I sort of see the
word from a pretty similar
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perspective.
You don't know when these shocks
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are going to come and hit you.
Yeah.
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You know, you're kind of at the
whims of commodity markets,
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being a commodity producer,
especially if you're not in the
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the first, the lowest cost
quartile.
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So just building in resilience
to your business is super, super
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important.
And the second point on
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dividends is one we've sort of
echoed in the past as well.
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There's a lot, you know, that is
made of how companies go about
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their dividends and the kind of
signalling that comes off it,
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whether you you cut it.
And we end up seeing companies,
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you know, drawing from debt to
pay dividends and all these
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sorts of things.
So I very much like the concept
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of paying it from cash that you
have on the balance sheet.
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Yeah, yeah.
I think there's like there's a
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nuance to the question of like
get with miners and quite often
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it's the the companies that have
assets which are in the lowest
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cost quartile that have greater
capacity to add leverage to the
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balance sheet.
It just so happens that they
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don't have a tremendous amount
of leverage on their balance
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sheet.
Think of BHP Rio, you know,
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those sort of big, big miners
with low, low cost assets that
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have, because you have a, you
know, AQ1 cost asset, you
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actually will last the cycle no
matter, no matter kind of what.
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Because you know, that's good
that Costco has got to dip in
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all the way to your yours.
So they have more carrying
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capacity, but because they
generate heaps of cash, they've
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just got the problem of too much
cash to deal with and they've
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they've typically.
They've they've had it from that
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decades ago of having to be
levered.
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What?
They're just set up there?
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Yeah, the way they sort of run
their their balance sheets right
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now is something very much
ingrained in them from the
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depths of 2015 sixteen and from
the overspending on acquisitions
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before that.
So, yeah.
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So it was a hard lesson learnt.
The next one is from Meadows
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Acquisition Corp and this one's
a bit lighter.
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They're chatting about earnings
and working capital.
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Obviously this is much more of a
topic when it comes to a copper
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miner than a gold miner because
you actually need to get the
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concentrate from your side out
to port and there's a bit of a
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lag in once the stuff is shipped
and when you get paid for it.
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So it's a discussion between
Mick McMullen, the boss there,
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and Paul Hissey from Molas.
But you know, again, for the
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half we produce, I don't know
what it was 9 1/2 thousand
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times, you know, just under 20.
If I'm just a simple Bush math
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guy.
You know, I look at it on the
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basis, well, how much did we
produce?
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Assume we sold it all, how much
money did we make on that?
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Then there's a working capital
line that goes below that.
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But that's how I look at the
business, right?
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If we, if you assume that we
sell whatever we produce and
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there'll be some sort of working
capital adjustment somewhere in
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there, it'll work its way
through the system is more than
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I said.
I quite like this one.
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There was, there was a lot of
getting into the weeds about
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the, the inventories, the the
working capital and all these
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sorts of things.
So I like him just taking a step
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back, keeping things nice and
simple and just, you know,
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drawing a line.
Under it, that's a bloody
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straight from the heart of Coba
because they're just, it's just
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sort of started.
It's like once it like 2 years
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down the road, it's all going to
fucking balance out.
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But it's like everyone's just
really honing in on Mac at the
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moment because it's like, right,
Are they making money yet?
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They've just taken over.
It's all ramping up and all that
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where it's like fucking look,
one or two years down the road
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and.
Just blowing, yeah.
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They're so at the whims.
If a shipment goes out on the
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28th of a month versus the 3rd
of the month, and you know that
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when the cash comes in, it can
distort because they're only
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doing a few of them, you know,
1/4.
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So it makes a big difference on
how the books actually look.
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Bloody analysts make more than
harder.
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Bloody just.
We're just blowing up rocks here
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and and sell on it.
That's it.
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All righty.
Next up we've got Linus.
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So there was a couple of
interesting facets to this
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conversation.
First up, we're going to play a
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snippet between Paul Young from
from Goldie's and Amanda Lacars.
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So they're talking about
operating costs in the business
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and how Kalgoorlie might impact
this.
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Obviously a lot of it's being
capitalised at the moment from
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from Kalgoorlie, but there's
going to be a point in time
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where that flips to, you know,
being operating costs.
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And then obviously that's going
to have a big impact on what the
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operating costs are because
there's going to be a need to
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have a, a period where you're
fine tuning it and working on
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those sorts of things.
So I found the particularly the
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end of this snippet really
interesting where Paul, who had
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essentially said the same thing
a couple times, made it very
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clear that, Amanda, you need to
help the street understand what
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the the operating costs are.
And this is a company that
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doesn't give guidance.
And there's a few bits going on,
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but let's play it.
Great.
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Thanks.
Paul.
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Just can I ask a quick follow up
Amanda, just on on cost again.
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I mean as far as I know you've
been capitalising Cal, Cal
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cracking and leaching costs.
I presume that we'll start
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expensing those a little bit
over the next 12 months.
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But just on the on the
uncontrollable costs and
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chemical imports have we do you
know if you've if you've unwound
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the high cost inventories like
across all your chemical
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products and we're back to, you
know, chemical imports being a
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more normalised pricing.
Across the business, yes,
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largely so.
OK, Yeah.
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Great.
And you're right, Paul, Cal will
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come in.
We're assessing at present with
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the auditors what's the right
time for us to make that
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transition from the capital to
the operating account.
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Yeah, thanks, man.
I mean, just lastly, I know you
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don't give production guidance
and therefore you don't give
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cost guidance.
But again, I just think that the
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street's too high on on cost.
By the way, is there anything
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any way you can help?
The street would be, I think,
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helpful.
Yeah, it was an interesting one.
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What it wasn't even the most
kind of, well, the biggest take
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away I had from that call there
was it was it was more just to
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do with the the, you know, the
RARS market itself.
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I mean, because it's such a kind
of nation opaque market who's
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really keeping up to date with
the the latest rarest news.
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You kind of normally just wait
till Linus reports and then
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you're kind of like, oh, that's
where the market is right now.
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Yes, yeah.
Them and bloody MP.
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Yeah.
Yeah, but there's, I'll say it's
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climbed back up.
It was 43.
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It's nearly up back to about 50
bucks a kilo.
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That was yeah, that was, that
was the takeaway kind of from
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from the call is this.
It looks like there's some green
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shoots in that in that market,
which probably probably played
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the snip itself from from
Amanda.
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You never set a path and then
bullishly go down that path no
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matter what else happens around
us.
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So of course we will accommodate
what happens with the market.
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As I said though, I think that
we've got some signposts at
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present that give us a bit more
confidence coming into this
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financial year.
And not just the, you know, sort
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of firming of the price over the
last month or so, but the new
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Chinese quotas which were
released last week certainly
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give us more confidence that
there's a a drive also within
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China to really improve value in
the market.
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And we are seeing an improvement
in demand and a reduction in
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inventories at the same time.
Yeah, really interesting to see
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how how they're talking about
it.
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Obviously, like you say, Travis,
it's quite a complex market and
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for for people to understand
that these sort of quotas the
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the Chinese kind of use these
given they have a monopoly on
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rare earths to control the
market and there's been a real
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glut of rare earths at the
moment.
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That's why they're talking about
a lot of inventories across the
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across the the chain there.
So the Chinese would dish these
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out for for mining, for smelting
and for separation.
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And it gives people a bit of a
guide on what supply could look
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like in the market.
So they're quite an important
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detail to look at.
Yeah.
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I mean the interesting thing was
the mention of of of quotas and
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like the Chinese have used these
kind of quotas from from time to
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time.
But just, you know, hearing that
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their policies actually changed
in relation to the quotas was
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kind of interesting because that
obviously has a kind of massive
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impact on the on the supply
demand.
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I mean that makes.
All right, Next up, we've got
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implants slash Zimplats, so
we're going to Africa.
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Mate, on the topic of niche
commodities with very few
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producers, especially on Isaacs,
yeah, I want to talk about the
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PGM market and I'll listen to
the Impala Platinum call or
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implants.
Not really because I have a lot
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of interest in a minor listed on
the Johannesburg Stock Exchange,
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but because I kind of wanted to
get a bit of insight on ASX
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listed Zimplats.
And if you, if you don't know,
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one of the segments of Implants
or Impala Platinum is their
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operating mines in Zimbabwe,
which they call that segment
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Zimplats.
And the majority of the rest of
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Implants is located in South
Africa or the mines in South
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Africa.
They've got something in Canada
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too.
But for simplicity and Zimplats
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is is 87% owned by Implants.
The remaining 13 percent is
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effectively quoted on on the ASX
under Tikka ZIM.
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But because Impala have control
of, you know, to have have
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control of Zimplats, the only
announcements you really, really
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roll through on the ASX are kind
of earnings results the same day
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that that implants report.
So here's what you know Implant
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CEO Nico Muller had to say when
asked about Zimplats.
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As far as our investment
appetite or invest investment
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posture is concerned in in
Zimplats, we've been present in
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the in Zimbabwe since 2000 or
just after after 2000.
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So it's next is after 20 years.
It's always deemed a high risk
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jurisdiction.
For us it has been an
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exceptionally positive
experience.
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We understand there have been
policy changes that happen from
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time to time.
We frequently engage through
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Zimplets with the government.
We we are aligned with them.
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On top of that they have the
remaining world class assets.
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Shallow, the great dyke is
associated with mechanisable
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warden shallow assets.
So in my mind, if I if I look at
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the globe's PGM opportunities.
I mean that has to be the most,
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the most attractive.
So I would, I would, I would
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suggest that if there's going to
be any new, new developments in
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future in PGMS, if you're going
to rebalance the the assets of
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the industry, I am predicting a
higher probability of us having
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new production emanate from Zim.
We are not planning any new
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growth in, in Zimbabwe.
We will do everything we can to
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extend the lives of Mimosa and,
and and also is not happening
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and, and some plats when the
the, the new portal studies are
427
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,440
on those.
So our current position is to
428
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,240
maintain life.
We've got 50% of the group's
429
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,720
reserves in in Zimbabwe.
And so we see long life, but we
430
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,160
do have the the processing
capacity, which historically was
431
00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,960
a constraint.
So now we've got the the most
432
00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:03,080
new unit I can talk to the to
the exact excess capacity, but
433
00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:06,360
at least we've got the ability
to consider treating mimosas
434
00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:11,400
material or part of the material
in, in at someplace or
435
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,480
potentially any new new
production that might emanate in
436
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,040
that country.
So don't take my comments as us
437
00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:19,320
having an investment option on
the table that we are going to
438
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,040
announce the market.
It's more a long range strategic
439
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:26,600
direction comment that I might.
I mean, yeah, kind of a few, few
440
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:27,720
interesting kind of takeaways
there.
441
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,160
One was, you know, the just, you
know, speaking really highly of
442
00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:35,000
operating in Zimbabwe that they
have the remaining world class
443
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,360
assets and and that, you know,
you anticipate some new
444
00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:41,040
production MM AM and A from from
Zim.
445
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:45,160
So yeah, I just like in an
Impala, they've been embarking
446
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:49,080
on some hefty CapEx in Zimbabwe
US 325 million to bring the
447
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,640
party online.
They're doing expansion at at
448
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:56,720
Bima mine Chucky like nearly all
about US $500 million in CapEx
449
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,840
and smelter expansion there.
As you were sort of talking
450
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,600
about that refining capacity
that that used to be a
451
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,160
constraint.
And if you kind of just look at
452
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,280
Impala's segment contributions,
like Zimplat's operating
453
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,960
performance was, was, you know,
a really, really solid
454
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,240
contributor there too.
So you just want to keep an eye
455
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,840
on kind of as, as whatever
evolves with that PGM market is
456
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,600
like that's kind of the yeah,
the the company I kind of keep
457
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,080
watching.
Yeah, Yeah.
458
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,080
That's really interesting.
So is that is that time as when
459
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:25,280
you said the the what's listed
on the IS 6.
460
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,520
Is that the free float not
including Zimplatz?
461
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:28,840
Exactly.
So it's exactly.
462
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,760
It's just that.
It's just 13%, yeah.
463
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:36,280
And and of that 13%, like coal,
like 8% of it doesn't even like,
464
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,000
doesn't even trade hands.
It's kind of just, you know, old
465
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,120
school founders that have just
held it forever.
466
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,720
So there's not not much that
actually does trade very often.
467
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,720
But yeah.
Ruddy when?
468
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,680
When do you think the PGM things
come into fruition?
469
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,920
I was just going to say I saw
some interesting, I saw some
470
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,120
interesting comments on the on
the weekend from Northern
471
00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,680
Platinum CEO Paul Dunn saying
the South African platinum
472
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,920
mining industry had entered in
irreversible decline with low
473
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,400
prices and demand suffering from
from EVs and all these sorts of
474
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,920
things.
Who knows what the, the journey
475
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,160
to that end point kind of is.
There could be real, real sort
476
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,400
of spikes in between.
But yeah, I mean, I think we've
477
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,120
just seen more of the same that
we were talking about a few
478
00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:20,120
months ago, just just cuts and
stuff and push backs of CapEx.
479
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,760
So it's, it's been still
gruesome, you know?
480
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,880
Yeah, I think, I think we need
we need probably need a bit of
481
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,280
an haven't revisited probably a
lot since we talked to Matt
482
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:33,280
Fernley about just where the
whole thematic is around plug in
483
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,840
hybrids and and all all that
sort of world we've got.
484
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,840
We've been or we're being
talking about other shit.
485
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,160
Yeah, and.
It, you know, with all this
486
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,400
discussion about a sort of
global recession and all these
487
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,560
things that just, you know, wax
car demand, yeah, wax, you know,
488
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,720
whether it's E VS or hybrids or
IC as they, they just get hit
489
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,800
when the world sort of rolls
over a bit.
490
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,560
So that's been much more front
and centre I think for a lot of
491
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,160
investors in in the past couple
of months.
492
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,440
Yeah, yeah, right.
Our next stop the bloody the
493
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,120
Aussie powerhouse Fortescue.
Fortescue I thought we had to
494
00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:07,680
get one in on the iron ore
market because I'm, I'm really
495
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,880
fascinated about it.
And I think you could almost,
496
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,720
you know, make a pretty strong
argument that the, the outcome
497
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,240
of what happens in in iron ore
is more important than every
498
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,720
other commodity we talk about
put together for WA.
499
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,880
And, you know, with that, I was
very keen to hear what they had
500
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,160
to say about the, the sort of
broader market.
501
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,120
I was interested to get a bit of
info on iron bridge, but they
502
00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:31,640
sort of battered off most of
those questions or kind of
503
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,040
talked around them.
So here was a question from
504
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,880
Glenn Lawcock from from Baron
Joey, just asking for sort of
505
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,280
general mood in and around the,
the iron ore market and what FMG
506
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,000
had been seeing.
So this is what Dino Otranto,
507
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,720
the CEO of FMG, had to say.
Obviously the the, the near
508
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,480
market, we've seen some
uncertainty with demand and
509
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,720
stronger supply coming on.
We've seen a a most recent price
510
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,120
uptick.
We've seen some tonnes already
511
00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:03,400
starting to come out of the
market predominantly from India.
512
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,880
So our our view is, yes, the
market is going through a
513
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:13,880
transformation very encouraged
though by diversification and
514
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,920
the robustness of the Chinese
market.
515
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:16,960
So.
I thought it was particularly
516
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,240
interesting to hear the comments
on India since, you know, diving
517
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,960
into what BHB had to say about
it and they kind of put those
518
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,280
higher cost producers in three
different tiers, one of them of
519
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,280
course being India.
For Fortescue to then come out
520
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,880
and say that they'd seen
production already start to come
521
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,640
offline in India gives a bit of
an indication of the pull back
522
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,080
in price is starting to eat into
the cost curve, the higher ends
523
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,200
of the cost curve a little bit.
So that's the space we
524
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,120
definitely need to to watch out
for.
525
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,880
Yeah, a lot of bloody, oh,
always continuous chatter with
526
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,760
Fortescue around bloody green
energy and renewables and
527
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,200
everything.
The new green logo, but bloody,
528
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,160
it's just, there's just one word
missing and it's Silverstone.
529
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,600
I just didn't.
I can't believe I didn't hear.
530
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,040
It yeah, I was commanding in the
the the reports there.
531
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,520
I didn't find it mate.
One goes with the other and it
532
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,640
gets a more bloody Silverstone
in your life.
533
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,800
FMG.
They'll be greener than Shrek if
534
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,880
they do Bloody oh you.
Think they look at their their
535
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,680
sort of peers up there in the
Pilbara and they see what
536
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,800
Silverstone has done, you know,
for the everything from, you
537
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,680
know, the, the, the trucks, the
buses gone around the.
538
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,680
Both the Polaris.
There's been some historical
539
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,160
Silverstone in FMG, the TV Hilux
Polaris buggies.
540
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,880
I just think they need to up the
amount of Silverstone.
541
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,640
Like if it's good enough for
everyone else to be sure enough.
542
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,400
Good enough for bloody FMG.
You'd think so.
543
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,200
They're they're set on this
20-30.
544
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,920
It needs to happen, and it's not
gonna happen without
545
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:39,160
Silverstone.
Yeah, yeah.
546
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,960
That's awesome.
Anyway, just hand it to him on a
547
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,640
platter once again, right next
one, Ramili.
548
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,160
One more comment on just that.
Did I see a headline that Twiggy
549
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,320
reckons that the the floor in
iron ore is is 80 bucks a tonne?
550
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:54,440
I think I saw a headline about
that.
551
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:55,960
Did you hear that?
He did make comments.
552
00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,000
He there was a little video that
sort of went went with that as
553
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,520
he was up in in the Pilgrim, but
there's no that's not too.
554
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,360
Floor.
Does the floor mean we don't
555
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:08,920
want it to go below that?
Very much so he.
556
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,120
Probably pays a bunch of money
to some in house economists or
557
00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:12,720
something.
Yeah, yeah.
558
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,800
But anyways, sort of similar
comments from and the big
559
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,440
Australian BHP as well, so.
I still got his plus 1 billion
560
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,160
divvy this year, the Twigster
and Nicholas so you'll have.
561
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,840
To live off that.
Mate, just still putting food on
562
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:25,440
the table.
That's it.
563
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,000
It's all good, right Remelius?
Next one.
564
00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:30,040
Yeah, this is just a a quick
one.
565
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:34,160
Just on the on the deck, just
put out this one slide on slide
566
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,480
12 of their deck.
It just shows their their margin
567
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,880
per oz.
And like they define margin as
568
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,240
as basically what the realised
gold price was in that year,
569
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,960
less the all the sustaining
costs and the sort of chart
570
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,480
since 2016 here.
And I think it's just it's just
571
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,480
kind of amazing to look at that
chart and just see that giant
572
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,960
margin expansion in in 2024 kick
in.
573
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,920
And I mean, we we know what we
all know why it's the grade of
574
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,040
penny is just king.
I'm sure they got.
575
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,360
And the processing only of.
That's where it's comes from.
576
00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:10,920
Contributor as well.
Yeah, it's either way.
577
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,760
It's fucking unbelievable.
Oh, it's yeah.
578
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,720
It's a chart.
You don't often see gold miners,
579
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:15,960
but yeah.
Let's see how long they can
580
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,640
maintain that one.
Gee, gold miners making money,
581
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,160
free cash.
You know, you know, you know
582
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,520
what's funny, it's like when you
you see like consecutive years
583
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,920
like chart deck of what you
know, financial results decks in
584
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,240
a row in the moment.
Like the deck looks pretty
585
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,160
similar to last year, except 1
slide's different or they've
586
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,920
removed the chart somewhere.
You know, it's because the chart
587
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:41,720
trend doesn't continue anymore.
Obviously from Johnny Max's
588
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,560
previous comment when he was on
the show about how Perseus and
589
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,840
Silver Lake were the only two
miners that were have made more
590
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,840
money than they've invested in
their journey.
591
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,440
I wonder if Remilius has ticked
over now, but I think.
592
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,440
I've done a lot of a lot of M&A.
So I.
593
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,800
Wonder a lot of I think with
Musgrave and the Spartan
594
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,480
investment as well, yeah, I
don't know if you count the
595
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,040
Spartan investments going up so.
I mean Penny.
596
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,920
Penny's a good example there
were they're making a good bit
597
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,800
of money of it, but it doesn't
have the longest life and they
598
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,000
did spend a couple 100 million
on it a few years back as well.
599
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,760
So it'd be interesting to see.
Yes, right.
600
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,680
Another stock that is part of
the alley JCETF and the from the
601
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,200
midcap one Genesis.
I mean, they just keep popping
602
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,600
up these.
She keeps getting comments of it
603
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,360
like she's a Ding, Ding, Ding on
every stock.
604
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,240
And so today she's like I'm
cleaning out the trash of My
605
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,440
Portfolio.
That's not an insight on
606
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,320
Genesis, Yeah.
She's not cleaning out Genesis.
607
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:41,040
Oh, we don't know.
So now it's coming out just it
608
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,560
was aftermarket open.
Yeah, yeah.
609
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,800
So they're very Genesis.
They're bringing forth the
610
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,240
restart of the Laverton mill to
October 2024.
611
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,280
So that's when the commissioning
is going to start with the
612
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,640
existing stockpiles and guarding
first gold production December
613
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,040
this year.
So as I said, I think it was
614
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:05,600
forecasted previously late FY25
South and they've also said
615
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,280
they've commenced mining at the
hub open pit.
616
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,520
So that's part of that Red Cliff
project sort of in the middle
617
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:18,400
ish of Leonora and live and so
have increased there for FY25
618
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:24,560
guidance to up to 200,000 oz
from previously 175,000 oz all
619
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,680
in sustaining cost projected to
drop 50 bucks to 2300 an ounce.
620
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:33,000
So still on, you know, higher
end of where most of them are
621
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,560
sitting, but and it says they're
bringing forward 25 mil of
622
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,880
growth capital.
So 10 mil, 10 bucks for the
623
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:44,320
labour to mill, 5 bucks for the
hub open pit and 10 million for
624
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,040
Ulysses underground mining ahead
of schedule.
625
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,720
So but they weren't they were
forecasting labour to mill
626
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,080
restart late FY25.
So I thought I would have
627
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,400
thought the growth capital for
that restart would have already
628
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,240
been included in the FY25
guidance.
629
00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,680
Not so I'm not sure about that
one.
630
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,360
So you're saying you're
interpreting it as coming from
631
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,400
FY20 6 CapEx into FY25?
Yeah, they said they were
632
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,680
restarting it.
They were guarding to restart
633
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,560
anyway.
So yeah, buddy.
634
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,880
But then what you'll see growth
capital makes sense if it's if
635
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,360
it's being developed ahead of
schedule, it means more growth
636
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:24,240
capital to go deeper.
So but they fucking scrolling
637
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,800
in, sorry not but not too much
context yet on what will be
638
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,840
filling the Laverton mill when
it is very started.
639
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,920
So it looks looks like they got
plenty of options but not too
640
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,880
sure which dirt is going where.
You can sort of infer it, but
641
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,840
it's more based on the fact that
that Laverton mill in its last
642
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,080
form was a 2.9 million tonne per
annum mill.
643
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,680
So it's pretty bloody big.
You know, Ulysses is ahead of
644
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,440
schedule.
I can't, you can't really see
645
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,480
that dirt gone up to Leonora,
then over to Laverdon.
646
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,960
Hub hub's a bit of a snatch and
grab jobby.
647
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,840
So for at the moment I think
there's underground potential
648
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,840
there and stuff, but 1.7 million
tonne in reserves at 3.1
649
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,280
grammes, so bloody high grade
for a pit.
650
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,840
So you assume that dirt will be
going to Laverdon looking at
651
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,560
bloody good old Google Maps, not
100% sure on the roads, but
652
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,320
looks like about 100K trek to
get it to there.
653
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:24,760
And then they've also got 3.2
million tonne at .4 grammes in
654
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,840
stockpiles at the Lavenham
project site, which is inferred.
655
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:34,560
So not confidence on the grade,
but so and it looks like they
656
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,320
were using some of that for
commissioning of the plant.
657
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,800
So they could if you add them
two together they could.
658
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,360
They could chew up the
stockpiles, blend it with the
659
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:50,600
hub dirt and get around 1.3
grammes per tonne head grade.
660
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,400
What sort of rate do you think
they go through that that 1.7
661
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,400
million?
Well, it looked on the on the
662
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,720
chart here.
It looked like it was coming out
663
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,080
in one year.
All in one year.
664
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,880
Yeah, bother.
It looks like that.
665
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,960
See that chart, the third, the
last snapshot you've got of the
666
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,200
the growth in Lavenden?
Yeah, looks like hub comes in,
667
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,760
doesn't come in to FY20 7.
That was their pre previously.
668
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,720
That was OK.
That's what I followed.
669
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,960
That's what they're bringing.
They're bringing for because
670
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,720
they were gotcha bloody charts.
Because there's, there's kind of
671
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,880
question marks whether that,
that Tower Hill that they showed
672
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,440
there FY20 nine, yeah, go on
there as well.
673
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,040
Who who?
Who knows?
674
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,800
Yeah.
So it's like, I'm not not sure.
675
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,880
Like I think they've it said
they're doing studies for
676
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,720
underground at, at hub and
everything.
677
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,880
So they're yeah.
So it combined the reserves,
678
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:49,200
they've got maybe 1.3 grammes, 1
3/4 years worth of dirt for that
679
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:53,240
Laverton mill 2.9.
So taking them that just that
680
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:59,320
could take them into FY20 6 end
of FY20 6 forecasting Jupiter
681
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:03,520
and Bruno Lewis to come online
in FY20 6 as well combine them
682
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,840
in reserves.
There's 12 million tonne at one
683
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:11,199
gramme for those two.
So you can see that mount
684
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,679
Morgan's mill, the Lavenham mill
potentially being just that high
685
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:17,600
grade, high tonne, low grade
operation.
686
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,360
So it looks like you Add all
that together, it's like right,
687
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,440
that could work without having
to bloody buy all the shit
688
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,880
depending on Bruno Lewis and
Jupiter coming online.
689
00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:32,480
Because I still even though
they're in that deck saying that
690
00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:37,480
Tower Hill FY20 829 going to
Laverton, which is right next to
691
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,199
Leonora.
I just I still believe something
692
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:46,120
will happen with vault not read
for vault before then.
693
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:50,840
So it'll be definitely gone to
King of the Hill to be
694
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,560
processed.
That's a gold medal or expanded
695
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,800
or an expanded Leonora Mill,
which they have talked about.
696
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,720
That'd be the silver medal, but
I'll just cannot say that ever
697
00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,200
go down that far.
Interesting to see the the
698
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,400
market reaction down sort of 5%
on on the news today.
699
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:08,600
What did you sort of read into
that many?
700
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,200
Yeah, I'm not well pulling for
gross cat like if you're pulling
701
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:18,280
for 25 bucks of gross capital,
maybe that's that's why all the
702
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,000
Goldies at the end today are
some, some more than others.
703
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,640
So it might be just a market, a
market thing.
704
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,040
It'd be interesting to see once
they, you know, wrap a bit more
705
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,000
meat on it and we see where,
where the tonnes are going to
706
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,240
come from and stuff how the how
the market sort of fares on it.
707
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,840
Yeah, they did.
I think in the last text they
708
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,920
did say unless this is it, they
did.
709
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,480
They did say like, you know,
updated Gardens was coming out
710
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,880
in September.
So this is probably it, but
711
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:44,280
probably still chasing some
colour on exactly what that plan
712
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,160
is for Laverdon because it has
sort of as said hub was, it was
713
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,960
initially forecasted Jupiter and
Bruno Lewis were going to be the
714
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,800
first sources of feed for
Laverdon.
715
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,120
With the stockpiles.
Yeah, with the stockpiles but
716
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,360
near hubs being sort of brought
forward.
717
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,960
So probably I'll be interested
to see what the what the
718
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,160
detailed plan of attack is.
But hey, why, why tell everyone?
719
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,560
Keep it up your sleeve, hey?
Maddie, those those like, you
720
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,280
know, sources of oil you just
described that you're going to
721
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,920
go into Laverdon.
I mean they were all in the
722
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,480
portfolio of Daisian.
So this is this is just kind of
723
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,120
Daisian reinvigorated is what
we're going to see Mount
724
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,080
Morgan's at least in the early
stage.
725
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,000
There's there's not like any of
Genesis or any deals that
726
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,600
they've done where there looks
like they're going to be
727
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,520
diverting all there the maybe.
Maybe the kit that it was a card
728
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,240
in here, the not card in here?
Yeah, I know the assets.
729
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,560
Ray Rayside and the ones they
got out of kin.
730
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,720
Yeah, potentially they talk to
them, yeah, maybe they're a bit
731
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:43,480
early stage from just a
permitting front and all that
732
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,240
sort of stuff.
But it I mean, 11 benefit is
733
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:50,800
like you said Hub was it was too
early stage to to send hub into
734
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,680
to Daisy and yet.
But like you said, it's kind of
735
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,720
a bit of a stench and grab and
kind of, you know, goes
736
00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:57,520
relatively quickly.
So, yeah, I think they're that
737
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,560
maybe the market's a little bit
uncertain about the the long
738
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,040
term of Labourton kind of after
after hub as well and stuff.
739
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,320
Like that, yeah, possibly.
And whether they're yeah, who
740
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,600
who knows Well, and I think it's
the whole as I said, 11 deal
741
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:15,880
with like a deal with Vault
changes everything totally.
742
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,920
But they've got, they've
obviously got the options to not
743
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,400
do a deal because they've got
base cases that do work with
744
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,840
Laverton and and Leonora.
But ideally you want Tower, you
745
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,280
want to be sending Tower Hill
and everything to a friggin 56
746
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,360
million tonne per annum mil Just
jammer through together.
747
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,760
Lowest cost operation.
Did you say they there was like
748
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,320
a data room article last week at
some point and it was about kind
749
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,240
of yeah, Gold Sect M&A and it
was, I think it was about
750
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:47,520
magnetic resources and it was,
it's understood that you know,
751
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,920
Genesis is not interested in M&A
at this point in time.
752
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,600
It was kind of like the comment
there, but.
753
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,720
You wouldn't think that, you
wouldn't think that from the
754
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:57,360
Diggers presale of magnetic.
Oh yeah, that's funny.
755
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,360
Yeah.
I continue to think Genesis will
756
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,320
always be a company in the
picture of M&A.
757
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,000
Like they just, yeah, it's just
the way they they are.
758
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,320
Like even if, yeah, yeah, I'd
always just kind of take their M
759
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,080
and a appetite with a grain of
salt just because you never, you
760
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,840
never, never.
They just, they'll probably just
761
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,440
do a deal and no one will expect
it.
762
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,800
And stuff like that too, yeah.
It sort of comes out, you know,
763
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,480
like the right time for these
things because this is sort of
764
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,840
real synergy type MNA, potential
synergy type MNA that we're
765
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,160
talking about.
Something sort of comes for sale
766
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,360
or is there, you know, you might
just have to have to go for it
767
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,280
rather than say it going to
someone else's hands.
768
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,800
They I think Vault coming off
what took 12% last week when we
769
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,680
last spoke about him that had
sure that's bloody prick their
770
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,160
ears up a bit bloody Chuck, do
you think on the time.
771
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,880
It still sounds weird you call
it a vault.
772
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,840
And I we're going to, we're
going to get used to it Vault
773
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,960
just with the the V.
It's like like some some like
774
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,640
renames you get around straight
away, but like, I still call it
775
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,080
Twitter, Twitter, you know?
Yeah.
776
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,960
How long did it take to get
Spartan gas coin to Spartan
777
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,520
like?
We that was pretty quick.
778
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,880
That was pretty quick, yeah.
Most people were pretty keen to
779
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,600
forget gas coin.
What other ones have we had in
780
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,960
the?
Delta lithium used to be.
781
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,360
Delta.
Hoover House.
782
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:11,840
For a moment there wasn't to be,
though.
783
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,800
That didn't tell you off?
I'm sure there's been a few on
784
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:15,680
the journey.
Fucker.
785
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,600
Where'd they go in a while
Anyway?
786
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,640
If they bring them forward this
this live and race start, good
787
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,840
on them.
But I just bloody hope they're
788
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,080
taking up CR ES offer for a free
review of the existing insurance
789
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,480
problem policies.
No downside to it in place, but
790
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,480
you don't need to bring forward
any CapEx guidance, growth
791
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,000
capital because it's bloody
free.
792
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,200
It a free a free review.
A free review of the insurance
793
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:39,040
policies.
Wow.
794
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,440
So I'm sure it's insured at the
moment.
795
00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:45,000
Bloody Genesis are minors.
There's no point of mine at
796
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,120
being an insurance expert.
You why waste your time?
797
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,600
Focus on the mining.
Get CRE to look at it for free.
798
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,840
What a bargain.
It's not even a bargain.
799
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,560
A bargain means you're getting
something cheaper, but you're
800
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,120
paying something.
But it's it's, it's free.
801
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,800
Mate, how much would the gold is
whacked by those those weather
802
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,920
events?
Over January, February, March
803
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:06,640
that you just had that in your
policy.
804
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,080
Yep, you could have a glaring
hole that you don't even know
805
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,720
about and they'll point it out
for free.
806
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,920
Exactly, I wouldn't even say
they're the we're not talking
807
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,560
medals before CRE.
They're not even the gold medal.
808
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,680
Odd.
Class them as the Michael Klim
809
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:23,880
world record of CRE insurance.
Specifically this.
810
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,480
Check that time 4818 Michael
Klim has.
811
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:35,240
Just broken the world record.
Bit of Australian nostalgia,
812
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,320
well I love.
It good work Maddie.
813
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,600
One last one from from me.
Just a few a bit of feedback on
814
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,480
our our min res episode last
week.
815
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,280
But you wouldn't believe it.
Ding Ding Ding from Ali JC Love.
816
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,120
It a few people have pointed out
that I've I've got some exchange
817
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,440
rates wrong.
I just and I've made a
818
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,480
fundamental error in my analysis
that I assumed the annual report
819
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,880
was in U.S. dollars, like like
most miners, but that means his
820
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,920
his Aussie dollars being an
Aussie dominant producer.
821
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,520
So that led to a few errors in
my analysis, which I hope to
822
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:10,640
cover in a in a future episode
this week with with a min bull.
823
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,480
Hopefully that happens, I think
so that'll be a good one
824
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,520
territory.
That'll be that'll be a good
825
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,240
one.
So just disregard that right in
826
00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:19,480
the middle.
Disregard the analysis in in
827
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,120
lieu of a future episode this
week, we hope.
828
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:22,280
Very good.
Good.
829
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,920
Tough guys.
Oh, I tell you, I'll never
830
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,760
disregard an axis, mine and
technology.
831
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:28,800
Never, never.
Who else would you not?
832
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:35,600
I would not disregard MMS verify
idea.
833
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,560
Idea, idea all to be said about.
There's more to be said about
834
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,000
idea.
Who is idea.
835
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,120
I'll tell you soon.
D soy underground bloody Oh,
836
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,240
never do never disregard that
bloody Silverstein, CRE
837
00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:52,040
insurance, Greenland equipment,
K drill.
838
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,600
And don't disregard a Spark
chart because it's correct.
839
00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:59,240
Who do you guys?
Information contained in this
840
00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:01,960
episode of Money of Mine is of
general nature only and does not
841
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,600
take into account the
objectives, financial situation
842
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,520
or needs of any particular
person.
843
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,000
Before making any investment
decision, you should consult
844
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,080
with your financial adviser and
consider how appropriate the
845
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,760
advice is to your objectives,
financial situation and needs.