Mega Copper M&A Manoeuvres

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Right eye buddy Waters.
Welcome to another week, Jay Say

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welcome back.
You're a regular.

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You're gonna be a regular cause
the fans love you, Trav.

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Jason, could you friggin imagine
if on the weekend you're

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drilling some exploration holes
in your jar?

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I broke.
Can you imagine that?

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Bad, bad, bad.
Stand down costs everyone money,

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but if you're using Axis gyros
24/7 they pick up the phone and

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they will ship on the weekend.
Life saver.

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Law absolute absolute godsend of
a company and I'll tell you what

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money miners yeah bloody ring
him up this week and you drop

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money of mine to get a free
trial.

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That is a deal Sean.
He's numbers in the shy nights.

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Give him a ring. 22 week free
trial.

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You got today.
Flying out the door, mate.

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Travel.
You're going on the big

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landscape.
It's like we're not building.

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We're buying these days.
And OHS, no.

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Maybe BHP's building.
Yeah, maybe Ryo's buying.

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Yeah, that anyway.
But there's some, there's the

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two biggest, you know, miners
that we think of when we think

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of big mining companies.
There's deal rumours about big

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copper, deal rumours about them
going around.

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So we're going to talk about
BHP, Lundeen, Philo and we're

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also going to talk about Rio
Tech.

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My Dolly snapping dog shit.
It's bigger than the Trump

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assassination scandal.
That story.

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Right now Bellevue come out with
the early quarterly.

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Now I can only surmise that
they've put it out.

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So I did not have my attention
diverted to any other mining

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companies and they wanted me to
give it a full suite of a

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segment and I've done.
That there's a carton on the

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line, Maddie.
There now, yeah.

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Well, I think my landscapes
changed.

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Mixtape Cheese Say you've done a
bit of around the ground.

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Around the grounds with a
disgraced quarterly.

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Today we got the Lion town done,
small offtake and also Mika

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Metals as.
Well, Oh yeah, blowing up some

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bloody cheap mills.
I like the way they're

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operating.
Like it.

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Right, Let's get into it.
Trav's big news from the big

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miners.
Is M and I about to?

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Really.
It's rumours about mate.

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Really start happening.
Yeah, I'll start with the more

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material, more material sort of
deal on the table right now.

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Well, look, BHP has apparently
been approached by Lundeen to

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put forward a joint bid for Filo
Mining.

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Late late Thursday, BHP actually
came out with the news of nickel

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W would go into care maintenance
until at least 2027.

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We didn't get a chance to chat
about that on the body potty

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cause we, we, you know, we
ripped the show by then.

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We put up an interview on
Friday.

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So made big news.
I suppose the one, the one thing

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out of that travel was like
shows how much money they'll

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probably losing if they're
willing to pay for $150 million

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a year to put it in the care and
maintenance, Phenomenal.

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Dreadful.
But yeah, I was.

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I was that.
I was like, geez, this is big

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news.
Didn't impromptu Twitter Spaces,

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Tommy Wallrich jumped on, Koala
jumped on.

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We barely talked about Nicole
West, but we did, you know, have

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a pretty interesting chat about
the state of capital flows in

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the mining industry.
It was actually pretty

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insightful.
So don't know, maybe maybe we

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put it as a bonus audio only
episode on on Wednesday.

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So yeah, if you watch this on
YouTube, make sure you jump on

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Spotify or Apple or whatever.
And so you can get that one on

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Wednesday.
Mate, nothing defamatory and

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Twitter spaces that one.
Bloody risky though.

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Twitter Spices.
I'll have to read, listen to it.

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Actually, I'll probably said
something I shouldn't anyway.

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Now to the actual news though.
So Friday, on Friday, fellow

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share price showed up as much as
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And then it gets gets halted,
right?

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Lundin mining shares briefly dip
and then recover.

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And there's this story that
emerges in Bloomberg saying that

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Lundeen has approached BHP to
pitch them to jointly bid for

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Philo.
There's some context that is

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important when we talk about
Philo and Lundin and everything

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like that.
Unless you've been, you know,

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paying close attention to the
Pecunia district dynamics, a lot

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of that context will probably be
lost on you.

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So I'll, I'll try my best to
summarise the higher level

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points for the for the money
miners here.

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The Vacuna District in is is an
emerging kind of copper super

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district, as you know, high
grade, well, sort of lowish

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grade, but you know, there's
just copper porphyries, large,

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large, large scale copper
porphyries almost everywhere.

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And then I know, I know little
Lacey isn't isn't a poorly, but

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there's just buddy Copper
everywhere and it's all in this

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kind of condensed district
called the Koonya.

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Which and it's sort of chilly
Argentina, it's near.

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The ball, yeah, yes, correct.
Yeah, it's the, the, the, the,

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it's not without its obstacles
like, you know, there's, there's

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water politics, infrastructure,
like you said, you know, into

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country kind of dynamics.
But the size of the prize looks

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worth it.
The, the, the tenure kind of

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most of it all used to sit
within Lundeen.

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The Lundine spun out NGEX and
Philo into separate listed

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vehicles so they could
independently fund the drill out

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of the, the various kind of
perspective projects that were

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within that package.
Simultaneously, both Philo and

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NGX have independently had like
a lot of success doing just

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that.
Lundin Mining, however, owns the

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the most advanced project
project in the in the region are

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being Jose Maria.
In fact, Jose Maria is Maria.

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Jose Maria is permitted to
finally ready.

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It's in San Juan.
So Jose Maria is it's it's not

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as sexy a project as Philo del
Sol just to the South of it, as

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you can see in this map here.
But Jose Maria is permitted and

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Argentina now has a supportive
regime, right?

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You got Miley very pro business.
You know, there's just the time

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is now in Argentina if you think
of it so.

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So for the Lundens who who think
about the long term, planning

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the development with the long
term in mind means optimising

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for the synergies to be realised
with Philo too.

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Now, London Group retains a 33%
stake in Philo and BHP owns a 6%

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stake in Philo.
So is there like you might have

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this later but can BHP only do
something if they're on board

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with the land deeds here?
Like the landings have a lot of

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control over the area.
Massive.

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I mean they retain 33% of fellow
so BHP can't.

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They can't do anything without
the support of of London Group.

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So it's a little bit if you
can't beat them, join them.

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Well, yeah, I mean, this is that
were that were separated from

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the from the London from the
London group into this

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independent vehicles.
And that's enhanced the

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acceleration of, you know, the
timelines of this whole super

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district.
And and now in order to actually

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get, you know, sort of the the
right funding and the right

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infrastructure in place, there's
got to be some reunification

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plan because the funding's kind
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sense about the whole district
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project level.
And that's where, as you stop

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stuck Subsec article written in
February last year by the Koala,

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you talked about this scenario
where the Lundens could actually

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emerge with a fully funded
pathway to develop Jose Maria

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via takeout of Philo and a
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Given the developments on
Friday, it's it's aged

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relatively well.
But in a nutshell, he reckons

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Lundin Mining would end up
issuing stock to Philo

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shareholders.
Filo shareholders would

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potentially also get a spin out
of a royalty on Philo del Sol,

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which could be worth a lot of
money.

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BHP would commit to $6 billion
to you know sole fund Hose Maria

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CapEx and in exchange get a 30
between 30 and 49% stake in the

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Koonya Argentina, which would
you know be in a JV which that

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Vicuna Argentina would involve
both Josemaria and Filo del Sol.

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Jesus cross spinouts, JV's and
fucker.

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That's unbelievable isn't it?
That are spinning all that out

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then spinning a royalty out
there, having a JV for the whole

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thing.
It's phenomenal, isn't?

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It, well, yeah.
And it's a, it's a nifty kind of

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potential funding strategy that
could, could be pretty

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attractive to, you know, all,
all three parties there.

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If you think about it, London
mining gets control of the

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development then because they
retain, you know, they retain

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majority interest in Pecunia
Argentina.

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So like they'll actually be in
control of the development

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pathway.
Jose Maria is effectively fully

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funded by BHP.
And recall London minings market

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cap is only like 9.2 billion and
the, the CapEx there is at least

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6 billion.
So it's, it's, it's challenging

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to fund that on your own and
then Lundens get a partner to

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fully fund that, which is pretty
attractive.

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And it would allow free cash
flow from Hosea Maria to go

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towards the pre strip of FILO
and which is kind of pseudo

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funded by BHP if you know what I
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It is bloody nifty eye, but
guys, better than nifty.

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And like, on top of that, you
know, if you, if that, if that

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royalty spin out a part of it as
well, it's, it's a pretty

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interesting kind of proposition
for, for fellow shareholders

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too.
So let's see what actually

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emerges in time.
But the logic for the deal is,

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is pretty compelling, you know,
for all of them.

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I think one of the key
considerations for, for Lundin

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mining was they'll sensitive
about potentially, you know,

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requiring a vote of their own
shareholders.

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And when you issue more than 25%
of your, your, your stock

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shareholders need to vote on
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That's where the fellow royalty,
you know, can play a role

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because it basically reduces the
number of shares issued in Filo

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Mining to go to fellow
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Taho that that role to You might
have said it before.

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Who's who's gonna hold that
royalty?

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It would it would be a this spun
out, but you as a a fellow

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shareholder owner today would
would be entitled to a

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potential.
I mean none of this is like

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really Daniel, this is just
Koalas conjecture at this point.

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Like would that that sounds like
that would end up in a friggin

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Franco Nevada or something.
Or not.

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It'd be a separate.
Separate spin out listed

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vehicle, which in its own right
could be yeah, pretty, pretty

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attractive standalone or could
ultimately end up taking over at

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depending on training dynamics.
But you know, you could imagine

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a world where it's worth a lot
of money because the I mean some

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people have like compared if you
like Del Sol to to Escondido and

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imagine having like a a 2% NSR
for a fucking long time.

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Exactly.
Talking like 100 years of my

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life in these giant sort of
projects, and that's like a

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royalty with 100 years of my
life is pretty fucking

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attractive.
Royalty and shit, yeah.

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I think with this hypothetical,
you know would do you think BHP

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would potentially take issue
buying the minority in that JV?

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They, they pretend, I mean,
like, yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure

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they potentially would, but it's
just about having like who,

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who's really who's really who's
really gonna be calling the

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shots here.
Because the, the, I think the

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reality is like the Lundens have
far more say in how this is

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going to go than measly BHP who
owns just immediately 6% of

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Philo and you know, not more,
not much else.

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This is going to be like a deal
on the table for BHP to step up

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and say yes to.
I wouldn't be surprised to see,

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you know, if BHP is not there
for it, then I wouldn't be

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surprised to see, you know, the
equivalent proposition put

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forward to the Sumitomo's of the
world and things like that.

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And you might actually get, you
know, like it might not be the

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same stake, but you, you might
see some real, real

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contributions from the Japanese
trading houses instead.

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But like, and if you think of
BHP right, they've, they've

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talked very recently, I think it
was their, their own head of

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copper said super recently that
they're much more interested in,

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in buying than building.
And this is building, not

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buying.
And it's a, but it's a deal on

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the table for them right now.
At the time when copper growth

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is, is, you know, such an
important objective for them.

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I, I, I think that they should
pull the trigger on this.

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I don't know what their final,
you know, proportion of, of a,

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of a JV they might end up with,
but it's also don't know how HP

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really makes, makes their
decisions.

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But yeah, you know, in a, in a
world with very little

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attractive like copper growth,
this is attractive copper

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growth.
And the, the Lundens, it's not

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like they're like they're that
that's a great partner to have.

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They're super, super well
regarded and like, not too many,

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not too many people have
phenomenal working relationships

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in Argentina.
Guess what the London family

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does?
Yeah.

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And, and it's pretty light.
And it sounds like this could be

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the only way that BHP will get
exposure is working with them.

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And it's similar to, again you'd
say Riyadh stake in Escondida.

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It's not the big one, but
they've got exposure to it.

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Yeah, with BHB, it's not as big
as BHB's.

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And this might be what BHB has
to do to get exposure to this

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district by not being the big
dog, just being the partner.

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They're really attractive thing
did I see for the landings in it

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all is if is if they can yeah,
like basically shuffle the free

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cash flow of Jose Maria into the
pre strip of of of Philo.

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If it was if it was BHP in
control, would that be would

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that be the location that BHP
chooses to allocate that

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marginal like free cash flow or
would run through there their

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capital allocation framework and
it might not, you know, go go to

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that location on the timeline
you wanted.

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So it's a really attractive
proposition to me if if mundane,

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retain operating control of that
region and they can, you know,

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really just shorten the timeline
to to bring Jose Maria online as

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much as possible.
Sorry to bringing Filo del Sol

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online.
It's possible.

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It seems to me it's sort of like
you were saying, Maddie, like

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BHP seemed to be happy to sort
of forgo their previous thoughts

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around M&A to get this, this
copper exposure is worth it more

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to them.
Wonder if they'd be doing this

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if the Anglo deal fell over.
Yeah, well, who knows what

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they're gonna come out with and
if they say yes or no to this,

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But yeah, I, I, I got no idea.
Maybe you got no idea, but

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probably not, I suppose.
Yeah, it.

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Hasn't happened yet.
Hasn't.

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We're talking about in the
theoretical.

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Sense, but we're trying.
You're that fucking far ahead of

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the market like steps ahead.
You're like you're thinking that

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you're thinking about next
week's cuts underground.

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You're not thinking about
getting the one on the deck

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today.
No, this is what separates you

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from the pack.
Thanks, Mattie.

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There.
It's just good vibes.

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It's an inclusive environment,
buddy.

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Right?
What?

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So what's happening with Rio
then?

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So that's the BHP.
Specification.

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You'd think BHP would would
steal the show, but apparently

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Rio Tinto has moulded takeover
offer for tech.

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This is.
This is an interesting story and

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there's a big time pack here
too.

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But according to Sky News, yes,
Sky News, who isn't exactly

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known for breaking stories in
the mining industry.

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They say that Rio Tinto had
drawn up detailed proposals for

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a potential takeover for Tech,
including approaching banks

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about financing a deal.
That same article says a source

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close to Rio said there was no
imminent takeover offer for

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Tech, though.
So I think there's some

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important context here.
Firstly, it was it was literally

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Thursday last week that tech
completed the sale of its 77%

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interest in Elk Valley Resources
or VR.

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That's the the steelmaking coal
business, which they divested to

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to Glencore for about 7 billion
U.S. dollars.

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But it's a really, really like
top quality coke and coal

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business that tech is one of the
few companies with a fantastic

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kind of copper growth pipeline.
And with that divestment of VR,

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there's like no more fossil fuel
exposure and its production.

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With the ramp up of QB, they
reckon they're gonna double

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copper production to 600,000
tonnes per annum this year.

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So of course, mostly pure
applied copper company with

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growth is damn attractive to the
major miners.

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Fascinating that this deal,
potential deal leaks literally

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the day after Elk Valley, um,
divestment kind of complaints,

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but.
Anyone would think, Rayo said.

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Oh look, if you get rid of all
that, maybe we'll come to the

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party.
Ohe yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Getting a deal done would be,
would you know, would absolutely

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not be straightforward though as
well, right?

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Because if you remember, last
week, the Canadian government

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literally, literally said it
would only green light foreign

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takeovers in the most
exceptional circumstances.

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So it's the exception, not the
rule.

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I think this one's a lot bigger
than 1.3 billion.

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Which one?
Yeah, that was the threshold.

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You know, potentially $30
billion kind of take out would

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be involved and I don't imagine
it would be a a particularly

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straightforward pathway to
control on the shareholder

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approval.
So you got the regulatory doubt,

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which it's the exception, not
the rule that Canada would allow

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it.
And then you've got the

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complicated shareholder pathway
as well.

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So tech, they've got this stupid
dual class voting system.

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There's Class A shares and Class
B shares.

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Now the Class A shares get super
voting rights and they are

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largely controlled by the civil
family in in April last year it

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was agreed to phase out the dual
share structure in six years

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time.
But they they still exist today

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and for all intents and
purposes, the key for family

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still have the ability to to
defend any Rio Tinto offer in

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their own right by way of these
super voting shares.

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Codes.
The Caval family?

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Never heard of them.
Just really.

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No, they've got like 4
generations of of history with

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with tech.
It's yeah, it's one of those

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like, yeah, really well
established mining families over

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in Canada.
Ah, right, there you go.

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They sound rich.
They.

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Probably gotta gotta couple of
Bob to him.

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Yeah.
Evil family, There you go.

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Yes, as today the like you know,
the keepers have not been

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particularly receptive to to
unsolicited offers.

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Didn't Glencore bid for the
company last year?

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They certainly did Allie.
It was, it was emphasised by

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Gary Nagle, the CEO of Glencore
that, you know, the, the offer

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was, the proposed offer was, was
script merger.

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So textural holders would retain
upside exposure.

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And if the Rio rumour is true,
it sounds like they're planning

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at least a partial cash over.
I mean, they talked about

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getting financing in place with
banks.

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I don't think you do that unless
you planning to be with a good

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chunk of cash.
Ultimately the Glencore bid for

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tech, which was implied, you
know, value of 23 billion in, in

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Glencore script last year got
shelved and then a deal to just

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buy VR instead sort of went
through.

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But the, the tick tacking
between the companies back then

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was, was really fascinating.
In fact, I want to play this

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brief snippet from a BFA
conference last year Text CEO

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Jonathan Bryce.
Morning to you all.

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I do understand that in his
presentation this morning, Gary

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Nagle made reference to tech.
Now Gary and I have had the

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opportunity to chat several
times over the course of the

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last year.
And interestingly, I've learned

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that Gary and I actually have
quite a lot in common.

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We each had long careers in
mining, we're around the same

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age and we're both relatively
new to the role of CEO.

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And as it turns out, we both
want to run tech.

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I think I remember you playing
that last year.

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Yeah, pretty funny.
That was yeah, mate May last

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year for reference.
Look, I think it's I think it's

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too early to really get in the
weeds.

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I wanna deal could look like and
like I said, it's it's a

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complicated pathway to control
for Rio or frankly any mining

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company for that matter.
And and throw in the fact that

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the possibility of more interest
from other miners to Koala

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mentioned on on the spaces that
we did the other night that that

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the final home for violates base
metals business would be tech.

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So there's, you know that that's
that's another possibility

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throwing throw out there as
well.

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I'm leaving leaving kind of vile
apparel focused on line or so.

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Yeah, I mean, look, the the the
marsupial is keen to follow up

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Thursday night spaces with an
Australian appropriate time

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zone.
So it might have a chinwag at

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7:00 PM per time tonight on on
those two stories as well, which

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is very much in his his
wheelhouse.

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They are the big, the big, the
big M, and a big, big end of

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town.
MNA Maddie.

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Yeah, nice.
He would.

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Azz.
You can't see what he's wearing

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on spaces.
He's probably got a nice dress

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shirt on.
He was, well, he was much more

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succinct than usual on on
Thursday.

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OK, Koala.
Yeah, you would.

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You would have actually.
You would have actually liked

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it.
Retained some of it.

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Yeah, one last comment just on
just on multiples.

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Alright, so, so I just wanted to
simply talk about the EV EBITDA

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multiples of some of these
listed copper producers.

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I put it on this table here a
little D next to the ones if

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they're big diversified miner
and the others are, you know,

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mostly pureplay kind of copper
miners.

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And these multiples aren't
perfect.

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It's it's based on kind of
consensus next 12 months, some

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of them are ramping up
substantially.

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So next 12 months isn't really
representative of steady state

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on have or anything like that.
But the point is pureplay copper

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companies command.
Much juicier multiple than the

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diversifies.
Take take Freeport for example,

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just as the benchmark there, you
know, you could think of them as

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like steady state, not much
ramping up of new production.

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They trade it, you know, above 8
times next 12 months.

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Ever compare that with the
diversifies, the larger

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diversified miners, which you
know, traded around five times?

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Yeah, I can.
I will.

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I can.
You can see why bloody Ivanhoe's

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frigging screaming at at 14.8
times.

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00:20:48,630 --> 00:20:51,380
It's not because of bloody
Robert Friedland, did you say?

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Saw it in the director's special
The Bloody Ivanhoe Verifier

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model.
But.

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That got that, got the absolute
shit clicked out of it on the.

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Newsletter It was the most click
thing in that day.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, there.
There's your bloody multiple

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proof.
Like, look, I couldn't believe,

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I'll bring it up here.
I couldn't believe the frickin

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blanket of copper that is at
this joint Air is just a metric,

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absolute shit tonne of copper
there.

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And look, I wouldn't have known
that if it wasn't for Steve to

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00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:26,720
John and the team taking me to
the mine via the Verify model.

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00:21:26,730 --> 00:21:29,590
Virtually mine tour, social site
tour, Save me.

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00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,070
Look, I didn't get the frequent
flyer points if I flew to the

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Congo, but I didn't have to pay
the cash to go there either.

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I went there via the Verify
model I thought.

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About sits in the DRC and I
thought, you know what, I'd much

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00:21:40,950 --> 00:21:42,790
rather stay in Perth and just
click through the fucking

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verify.
So stay in the Verify team.

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Thank you very much.
Anyone, anyone just Google

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verify Ivanhoe mines model
Ivanhoe verify model site to it

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00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,200
and you got the whole site too.
You see the whole body it's

440
00:21:57,210 --> 00:21:59,330
bloody brilliant.
So look if you want your you

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00:21:59,340 --> 00:22:03,780
wanna trade it 15 times and just
make your life great like mine

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00:22:03,790 --> 00:22:06,500
is now.
Get bloodier verifier model

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granted verify dot.
Com and get the verify EBITDA

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00:22:09,610 --> 00:22:11,650
multiple rewrite.
Yeah, yeah.

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00:22:11,710 --> 00:22:15,150
Easy, easy.
Simple, right?

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00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,080
Bloody.
Yeah.

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00:22:16,090 --> 00:22:16,920
Right.
So what would?

448
00:22:16,930 --> 00:22:18,800
OK, zooming out, Trav.
Yep.

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For the Rio side.
What do you think?

450
00:22:22,660 --> 00:22:25,830
If if the story is true from me,
it would suggest a couple of

451
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,590
things.
Firstly, like three months ago,

452
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,790
Rio Tintos Copperhead said he
sees much more value building

453
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,950
mines rather than buying
existing assets.

454
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,170
So an acquisition of tech might
seem contrary to that statement,

455
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,470
but it's a bit nuanced, I think
because text cop portfolio, you

456
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,310
know, includes growth assets
which have pretty attractive

457
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,490
capital intensity about them as
well.

458
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,110
Unlike, and then the other point
is like, unlike BHP, Rio

459
00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:57,700
actually has a really attractive
copper growth profile ahead of

460
00:22:57,710 --> 00:22:59,950
themselves already.
Over the next five years, it's

461
00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:03,860
going to grow from 700,000
tonnes to 1,000,000 tonnes per

462
00:23:03,870 --> 00:23:05,860
annum, mostly thanks to Oriental
guy.

463
00:23:06,310 --> 00:23:09,000
So if if we were still hungry
for more copper despite it

464
00:23:09,010 --> 00:23:12,900
having a pretty damn attractive
growth profile, that that says

465
00:23:12,910 --> 00:23:15,240
something.
Yeah, yeah.

466
00:23:15,530 --> 00:23:17,740
What are they?
They're expanding Olympic Dam,

467
00:23:17,750 --> 00:23:19,520
aren't they?
Yeah, proposing too.

468
00:23:19,590 --> 00:23:21,700
But comparative or your toggle,
right?

469
00:23:21,710 --> 00:23:24,850
Yeah, you know.
Get the bloody double whammy

470
00:23:24,860 --> 00:23:25,540
there.
With you.

471
00:23:25,550 --> 00:23:27,980
Told Uranium.
Dwarfs Adam, yeah.

472
00:23:28,060 --> 00:23:30,390
Yeah, yeah.
Bloody fascinating.

473
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,330
Good stuff, mate.
OHS appealed.

474
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,310
Look, God, that's gonna be some
big news segments that'll fill

475
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,190
us out there.
God, man.

476
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,510
God, they better not.
Both happen at the same time,

477
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,810
far right.
Well, I don't think they're, I

478
00:23:41,820 --> 00:23:43,710
don't do this too much of the
radio tech one just yet.

479
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,470
And it sounds like you really
think you get approvals.

480
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,220
It might be the last we talked
about that one.

481
00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:54,060
But the the BHP like fellow
Lundeen, that's the story and I

482
00:23:54,070 --> 00:23:56,130
think that's going to that's.
Probably the best thing.

483
00:23:56,140 --> 00:23:59,230
If it doesn't manifest with HP,
it'll manifest in another way

484
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,070
with someone.
Else I'd say it's been stewing

485
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,110
in the background for a while.
Yeah, now good stuff.

486
00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:09,530
Right on to the next, uh,
Bellevue Gold add 36 million to

487
00:24:09,540 --> 00:24:14,270
the balance sheet that they said
free cash flow 41, but they

488
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,810
added 36 million to the balance
sheet.

489
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,330
The definition of free cash flow
should include first interest

490
00:24:21,340 --> 00:24:23,200
repayments.
Yes, cause it wasn't a principal

491
00:24:23,210 --> 00:24:26,010
repayment, it was a capitalised.
Interest not capitalising

492
00:24:26,020 --> 00:24:28,910
interest and then classified it
as principle and then paid down

493
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,320
that.
And therefore we don't wanna

494
00:24:30,330 --> 00:24:34,420
upset the CFL again.
But anyway, as I said, they

495
00:24:34,430 --> 00:24:36,420
thought of, they obviously
didn't want me to get

496
00:24:36,430 --> 00:24:38,860
distracted.
So I've just we've done a full

497
00:24:38,870 --> 00:24:40,580
segment for him.
They got it out early.

498
00:24:40,590 --> 00:24:43,840
Bloody good on you.
So look, 36 mil for the quarter,

499
00:24:43,950 --> 00:24:46,740
pretty bloody.
That's a bloody good result for

500
00:24:46,750 --> 00:24:49,630
mining ramp up.
We don't know payables and

501
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,210
everything but that's just what
what we know today.

502
00:24:52,260 --> 00:24:56,270
Like considering W Guild only
added 16 mil last quarter and

503
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,790
they they're unhedged and don't
have any debt.

504
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,010
So look well done to the bloody
Bellevue team.

505
00:25:02,020 --> 00:25:05,170
Sure it's it's fucking hard to
build them on and they've done

506
00:25:05,180 --> 00:25:10,370
it and we've seen numerous cases
recently that haven't lasted the

507
00:25:10,380 --> 00:25:12,850
distance.
So Congrats to all involved, I'd

508
00:25:12,860 --> 00:25:19,250
say let's let's get into it, my
Bureau butter and a mop of it

509
00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:22,360
before we get into the.
Segment I was gonna say, mate,

510
00:25:22,370 --> 00:25:25,010
you're you're much more
complimentary than you were just

511
00:25:25,020 --> 00:25:29,130
chin wagging beforehand.
Well, just just there's always

512
00:25:29,140 --> 00:25:32,430
questions, there's always
questions, but I feel good now.

513
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:37,340
Alright, so they've still got
debt of 219,000,000.

514
00:25:37,350 --> 00:25:40,200
I'll bring up the waterfall
chart is so 5 million was paid

515
00:25:40,210 --> 00:25:43,580
off is like debt, it's interest.
Yeah.

516
00:25:43,630 --> 00:25:46,360
So that's so they maintain 219
mills.

517
00:25:46,370 --> 00:25:50,140
So they've got the neck, the
there's a principal payment

518
00:25:50,150 --> 00:25:54,000
coming up in 30th of September.
So that's 6.8 million they've

519
00:25:54,010 --> 00:25:57,180
got in restricted cash.
So the Argonaut model has them

520
00:25:57,190 --> 00:26:00,840
repaying about 60 million in
debt per annum.

521
00:26:00,890 --> 00:26:05,480
So it takes it out three or four
years before that that quantum

522
00:26:05,550 --> 00:26:09,210
is is pied off, so.
And what are you boys thinking

523
00:26:09,220 --> 00:26:12,980
this water flow chart?
They've broken one of my rules,

524
00:26:13,990 --> 00:26:16,500
site expenditure, including
growth capital.

525
00:26:17,780 --> 00:26:19,050
What was one of my rules,
Maddie?

526
00:26:19,100 --> 00:26:21,500
Gotta separate.
It separated, right?

527
00:26:21,510 --> 00:26:22,780
What do you like?
What's your growth cap?

528
00:26:22,790 --> 00:26:26,830
What's so they've they've
they've grouped apex with

529
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,040
whatever they're spending still
sinking a shaft and all that

530
00:26:29,050 --> 00:26:31,290
sort of stuff for vent.
Like I want to see that

531
00:26:31,340 --> 00:26:34,500
separated.
You can't say you didn't inform

532
00:26:34,510 --> 00:26:37,150
everyone, Trav after your
brilliant segment.

533
00:26:37,220 --> 00:26:40,430
But anyway, let's just like,
let's light the waterfall chart.

534
00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:42,160
Let's get on to the nitty
gritty.

535
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,450
So they, they processed 2.
I'll bring up the table of the

536
00:26:47,460 --> 00:26:50,550
physicals what and I guess what,
what can we summarise from it?

537
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,530
They processed 240,000 tonnes,
so pretty bloody close to that

538
00:26:54,540 --> 00:26:56,370
name plate, 1,000,000 tonne per
annum.

539
00:26:56,380 --> 00:26:59,190
So it looks like the mills, the
dirts getting through the mill,

540
00:26:59,340 --> 00:27:02,590
but they only mined 200,000
tonne of awe.

541
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,670
So effectively mining hasn't
kept up with processing.

542
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,230
And you could also say there was
a lot more capital development

543
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,710
than operating development.
So the operating advance is

544
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,920
about half of what it was in the
last quarter.

545
00:27:16,340 --> 00:27:21,350
Operating development is pretty
much the old development plus

546
00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:23,210
everything sort of close to the
your.

547
00:27:23,220 --> 00:27:27,050
Once you get past all the the
escape ways and the stockpiles

548
00:27:27,060 --> 00:27:30,550
and everything, that's when
capital development turns into

549
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,800
operating development.
It's all the operating

550
00:27:32,810 --> 00:27:35,030
developments, the stuff that
goes to the ore.

551
00:27:35,780 --> 00:27:42,050
So odd surmise from that.
I reckon stopping is right up

552
00:27:42,060 --> 00:27:45,670
the ass of development.
Like the development isn't shit

553
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,810
loads ahead and I think probably
a better development pressure

554
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,680
on, which is always going to be
a challenge in in hard ground

555
00:27:53,690 --> 00:27:56,940
because you're just trying to
get bloody as far as you can

556
00:27:56,950 --> 00:27:59,560
ahead and putting all your
capital infrastructure in.

557
00:27:59,830 --> 00:28:02,980
But the rock just won't let you
get there quick enough.

558
00:28:02,990 --> 00:28:08,270
So that's that's my prediction.
Was gonna say merry for the

559
00:28:08,380 --> 00:28:11,440
money miners and for the non
technical heads out there like

560
00:28:11,450 --> 00:28:13,310
myself.
Can you explain what the

561
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,670
difference is between
development and stopping or?

562
00:28:16,740 --> 00:28:20,050
OHS yeah, cause well, that's
funny is it will cause and that

563
00:28:20,060 --> 00:28:23,250
was the other one and I'll I'll
I'll on the back of this.

564
00:28:23,260 --> 00:28:28,430
So stop stipple haulage 167,000
tonne, which is about what they

565
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,680
need every month.
And then but the development or

566
00:28:31,690 --> 00:28:36,200
was down because the obviously
the development advance is down.

567
00:28:36,210 --> 00:28:41,090
So you, I remember, I think it
was the Northern Star, one of

568
00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:43,900
the quarterlies previously
there, they said they target and

569
00:28:43,910 --> 00:28:46,000
I'm pretty sure everyone's
saying they're targeted about

570
00:28:46,010 --> 00:28:50,280
2/3 stopping all and 1/3
development or so your

571
00:28:50,290 --> 00:28:52,360
development.
Nor is what comes out when the

572
00:28:52,370 --> 00:28:56,640
Jumbos developed the ore drives,
the four and a half by 4 1/2

573
00:28:57,510 --> 00:29:01,480
excavations tunnels that you'd
use to get the machinery in.

574
00:29:01,490 --> 00:29:06,100
And then the stopping ore is
what comes out between the two

575
00:29:06,170 --> 00:29:09,100
the development drives.
So that's like the big bloody

576
00:29:09,110 --> 00:29:12,740
narrow mining, the bloody gold
vein and and a bit of shit

577
00:29:12,750 --> 00:29:14,940
around it.
That's your bulk mine and that's

578
00:29:14,950 --> 00:29:18,670
where that's the money maker.
But The thing is that's how you

579
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:23,680
get the most or out quickly is
the skipping all but the

580
00:29:23,690 --> 00:29:26,720
development or like say with
narrow vein mining, which is

581
00:29:26,730 --> 00:29:31,130
what this is not all of it, but
most of it is you have to mine 4

582
00:29:31,140 --> 00:29:34,100
1/2 metres wide.
So I bet you're stops, you might

583
00:29:34,110 --> 00:29:37,480
try mine them as thin as
possible to just get the vines

584
00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:39,530
out.
Might be, you know, two, 2 1/2

585
00:29:39,540 --> 00:29:42,820
three metres wide.
So you're grade for your

586
00:29:42,830 --> 00:29:46,900
development drive is lower
because you're taking more waste

587
00:29:46,910 --> 00:29:50,140
on the outside, whereas the
stopping or you're cutting it a

588
00:29:50,150 --> 00:29:53,130
bit Luna.
So if you have too much

589
00:29:53,140 --> 00:29:56,360
development or and you're not
getting enough stopping or out,

590
00:29:56,370 --> 00:30:01,450
your overall grade gold grade is
lower because you're diluting it

591
00:30:01,460 --> 00:30:04,310
with more development or
hopefully then the stopping or

592
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,810
catches up, which means lower
grade through the mill.

593
00:30:06,820 --> 00:30:11,130
So that's why they target 2/3
stopping 1/3 development.

594
00:30:11,140 --> 00:30:16,810
So that 167,000 tonne that they
got out of stopping for over

595
00:30:16,820 --> 00:30:20,610
250,000 tonne run rate is bang
on 60.

596
00:30:20,620 --> 00:30:23,730
That's 67%.
So that's 2/3 striping.

597
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,750
But because of the development,
they looks like there might be a

598
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,810
bit behind getting to the next
level of development or they or

599
00:30:30,820 --> 00:30:33,090
they didn't have as much and
they'll probably focusing more

600
00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:35,290
on capital.
The development was down, which

601
00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:40,270
bring the total down.
So, yeah, so look, looks like

602
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:46,010
there's a lot of work ongoing to
properly set up the ventilation,

603
00:30:46,070 --> 00:30:48,410
the pumping and the power
infrastructure.

604
00:30:48,510 --> 00:30:51,430
Because there, there there was a
comment, comment in there saying

605
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,150
that explicitly signed
infrastructure will like

606
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,660
continue into FY25, which is
talking about the, you know,

607
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,670
pump, pump stations, ventilation
drives and I shouldn't

608
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,710
ventilation rises power, which
is like substations.

609
00:31:08,870 --> 00:31:11,800
And that will help increase
development rates.

610
00:31:11,810 --> 00:31:15,600
And look, because the challenge
with Bellevue is not not just

611
00:31:15,610 --> 00:31:17,940
the hardness of the ground.
You look at the verify model

612
00:31:17,950 --> 00:31:22,300
here again, publicly available
is that it's a very laterally

613
00:31:22,310 --> 00:31:26,510
spread out mine.
So H or body like because it's

614
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,940
there's one over here, one over
here, one over there.

615
00:31:29,010 --> 00:31:31,600
Yeah, like, you know, you
independent ventilation for

616
00:31:31,610 --> 00:31:36,760
those areas, independent pumping
infrastructure, more substations

617
00:31:36,770 --> 00:31:39,540
to get the power over there.
So it's it's a lot more to set

618
00:31:39,550 --> 00:31:42,700
up compared to, you know,
compared it to Spartan before

619
00:31:42,710 --> 00:31:46,280
when you've just got sort of one
decline going past each or body,

620
00:31:46,290 --> 00:31:49,000
you can then pump all the water
out together.

621
00:31:49,010 --> 00:31:52,410
You can set up the power
independent, but at the same

622
00:31:52,420 --> 00:31:56,220
area such that it's just a
challenge of the way the all

623
00:31:56,230 --> 00:31:59,650
body is.
So and because you got more,

624
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:04,030
more vent, more substations,
more stuff to set up that can

625
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,310
chew up the jumbos because you
need more.

626
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,770
It's more capital work.
That's all class, That's

627
00:32:08,780 --> 00:32:10,870
capital.
But the more capital work you

628
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,030
do, the more you take away from
getting to the all quicker.

629
00:32:14,090 --> 00:32:18,290
It's more stuff to set up.
So and just it it just slows.

630
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,070
It can slow the mind down while
you're setting all this up

631
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,870
because you you're waiting on
getting another substation in.

632
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,010
So you might your power might be
tripping you waiting on getting

633
00:32:27,020 --> 00:32:30,010
vent drives in and rises pulled
through.

634
00:32:30,060 --> 00:32:33,360
So you might be getting our vent
to get enough trucks down to

635
00:32:33,370 --> 00:32:35,880
everywhere to get the dirt out
quicker.

636
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,040
If you haven't got the pumping
infrastructure set up, means you

637
00:32:39,050 --> 00:32:40,800
might be pumping the water out
quick enough.

638
00:32:40,810 --> 00:32:43,240
It's all flooding the decline
all the time and it just, it

639
00:32:43,250 --> 00:32:46,060
just slows the whole operation
down.

640
00:32:46,070 --> 00:32:49,230
It just feels like they're still
in that they are ramping up.

641
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,220
They're still in that phase of
getting the infrastructure set

642
00:32:52,230 --> 00:32:53,510
up.
This is what happens.

643
00:32:53,910 --> 00:32:56,160
Yeah, Yeah, it's fine.
Fuck it hard.

644
00:32:56,170 --> 00:32:58,080
It's easier talking about it on
a body.

645
00:32:58,090 --> 00:33:00,000
I can tell you that.
That's why I give it away.

646
00:33:00,140 --> 00:33:02,380
Well, I'll just, I couldn't cut
the mustard.

647
00:33:03,260 --> 00:33:11,530
So yeah, I think and I, I think
all of that combined is linked

648
00:33:11,540 --> 00:33:15,040
to the fact they're processing
recovery was 90%.

649
00:33:15,390 --> 00:33:16,690
Now, you wouldn't think that
would.

650
00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:20,800
You no, no, because the what the
feasibility study was 95%.

651
00:33:20,810 --> 00:33:26,440
Yeah, I think they were above 95
like per load, but I don't think

652
00:33:26,450 --> 00:33:31,130
that you can directly relate
that to having it out of the

653
00:33:31,140 --> 00:33:35,550
mill because the mill, the mill
has been designed for, I think

654
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,650
the reserve grade was 6.1
grammes.

655
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:42,950
So you can say that the Deacon
load high grade is like 9697%

656
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,710
metallurgical recovery.
But when you run it through a

657
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,250
mill that is designed for 6.1
grammes, you can't just Chuck

658
00:33:50,260 --> 00:33:53,810
high grade in and get that.
It's gonna like it's optimised

659
00:33:53,820 --> 00:33:58,390
for that, that grind or and I'll
get to why that so and so why,

660
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,030
why would the processing
recovery be low?

661
00:34:01,130 --> 00:34:04,470
Because and as I said, the
Montanans are less than the

662
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,410
processing tonnes because you
want that the other way around.

663
00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:11,550
You want you want to be building
up stockpiles on the ROM side

664
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,480
that can be fed into the mill at
the optimum blend.

665
00:34:14,530 --> 00:34:16,739
So you want to get your high
grade ship, which is their

666
00:34:16,750 --> 00:34:20,219
Deacon stuff and the low grade
other stuff.

667
00:34:20,270 --> 00:34:24,989
Blend it down to get it at
around 6 and then you know that

668
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,980
you're getting the given that
given the best chance to get the

669
00:34:27,989 --> 00:34:30,620
best recovery.
And look, they're great.

670
00:34:30,630 --> 00:34:34,699
They're Stockport.
Their processing grade was six.

671
00:34:34,909 --> 00:34:39,960
But I'm, I'm, I'm thinking
because if the mind dirt is

672
00:34:39,969 --> 00:34:43,219
chasing the processing dirt,
especially the fact that they're

673
00:34:43,230 --> 00:34:46,280
in, they want to get a good
quarterly out, they're in ramp

674
00:34:46,290 --> 00:34:48,820
up.
So you have a high grade dirt

675
00:34:48,830 --> 00:34:53,600
sitting on the room in and it's
friggin 3 weeks till the end of

676
00:34:53,610 --> 00:34:57,040
the quarter and you gotta leave
it sitting there waiting for

677
00:34:57,050 --> 00:35:02,990
some low grade stuff to come up
to blend it in and maybe not

678
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,980
feed the mill?
Or are you gonna throw it in,

679
00:35:07,630 --> 00:35:10,720
get the answers and sacrifice a
bit of recovery?

680
00:35:11,820 --> 00:35:14,760
I reckon you gotta throw at it
once you get the cash because I

681
00:35:14,770 --> 00:35:17,700
need the cash.
I made the market to show that

682
00:35:17,710 --> 00:35:21,030
they're producing the answers,
which means you sacrifice a bit

683
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,150
of recovery.
And I'd say that's might be

684
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,010
what's happening because they're
chasing their tail a bit,

685
00:35:25,020 --> 00:35:29,010
getting the dirt up there.
So we're going to get so much

686
00:35:29,020 --> 00:35:31,890
more frigging info by the end of
the month when they release the,

687
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,450
you know, the production and
cost guidance and where the

688
00:35:34,460 --> 00:35:38,290
mines going.
But can I or can I only No, I

689
00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:39,790
won't say that, but you know
what I mean?

690
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,660
Or can only do what I can do?
Do you know what I was about to

691
00:35:44,670 --> 00:35:47,860
say no.
What were you gonna say?

692
00:35:59,660 --> 00:36:03,230
I look, I look forward to seeing
what I was a bit disappointed

693
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:08,380
not to get details of the cost
guidance and FY25 guidance in

694
00:36:08,390 --> 00:36:10,670
this quarterly, Maddie.
So now we gotta wait till the

695
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,230
end of the month.
I couldn't remember if they said

696
00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:14,390
it was going to come out in the
quarterly or maybe that's why

697
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,410
the quarterlies coming out early
and get that like going out

698
00:36:17,420 --> 00:36:18,810
later.
And then I'm reading broken

699
00:36:18,820 --> 00:36:22,130
notes about a potential plant
expansion to 1.5 million times

700
00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:24,550
per annum.
And I just, I, I don't know, I

701
00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:29,030
just always that's always read
these things and just like I, I

702
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,750
couldn't quite.
So there's obviously an analyst

703
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,090
site visit and now that analyst
is writing about a plant

704
00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:39,240
expansion to 1.5 million.
But I can't understand why why

705
00:36:39,250 --> 00:36:43,840
you why you do that expansion
now or why it wasn't your base

706
00:36:43,850 --> 00:36:44,960
case.
You're just body built the

707
00:36:44,970 --> 00:36:46,200
thing.
Why don't you build it the right

708
00:36:46,210 --> 00:36:48,430
size to start with?
Or is it the right size now and

709
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,360
this?
Is just yeah, yeah, Great story.

710
00:36:50,370 --> 00:36:52,710
I've.
Got a bit of a I've got a bit of

711
00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:55,880
a theory cause then that was in
the front page of and read that

712
00:36:55,890 --> 00:36:59,110
out yet that they've stuck
commenced to a scoping study for

713
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,260
a processing plant expansion
from 1 to one and a half million

714
00:37:02,270 --> 00:37:05,000
tonne per annum.
Think of might relate to what I

715
00:37:05,010 --> 00:37:06,720
was talking about before about
this.

716
00:37:06,730 --> 00:37:12,060
Blending like this is because to
do this, you you'll have to,

717
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,450
they'll have to bring forward, I
would assume additional mining

718
00:37:16,460 --> 00:37:21,290
areas that aren't included in
the plan as of yet that will,

719
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,920
you would assume be lower grade
because if they're higher grade,

720
00:37:23,930 --> 00:37:25,810
they'd be trying to fucking mine
them now.

721
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,710
But they're going to, you know,
bring forward other the other

722
00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:32,940
areas low grade that weren't
included in the original plan.

723
00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:36,660
So, and as we've seen from,
because we gotta find half a

724
00:37:36,670 --> 00:37:41,090
million tonne a year that which
means more gear, more areas,

725
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:42,710
more it has to come from
somewhere.

726
00:37:42,780 --> 00:37:46,730
So we've seen from the infill
drilling of that Deacon load,

727
00:37:46,740 --> 00:37:50,890
which is the honeypot for
Bellevue, it looks like the

728
00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:53,750
grades are looking to be higher
than originally forecast.

729
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,030
There's that high grade shoot
that they were talking about.

730
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,540
So there might be like a a
positive reconciliation because

731
00:37:59,550 --> 00:38:02,910
they wouldn't have they wouldn't
have wanted to overcall the

732
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:08,190
Deakin in that stage two study
because they've real fucking

733
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:09,710
committed.
Then you always want to under

734
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:11,830
promise and over deliver,
especially when dealing with

735
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,670
high grades.
I don't know they and at no

736
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,750
point did I get the impression
that Bellevue was under

737
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:21,010
marketed.
Definitely not under marketed,

738
00:38:21,020 --> 00:38:23,570
but really you could, but they
could really shoot themselves in

739
00:38:23,580 --> 00:38:26,680
the foot if they aren't
conservative on a real high

740
00:38:26,690 --> 00:38:29,540
grade or body that could have
variance.

741
00:38:29,710 --> 00:38:34,540
So and it looks like there so
there might that might be yeah,

742
00:38:34,550 --> 00:38:37,640
might be a thing might not be.
So if if that is the case, if it

743
00:38:37,650 --> 00:38:40,960
is over reconciling and the
mills being designed for this

744
00:38:40,970 --> 00:38:45,420
frigging 6.1 gramme reserve,
maybe expanding the mill and

745
00:38:45,430 --> 00:38:49,880
bringing on some lower grade
areas is not just about adding

746
00:38:49,890 --> 00:38:52,800
more ounces to the profile,
which it will, but it might

747
00:38:52,810 --> 00:38:58,700
actually be about giving them
more flexibility to blend down

748
00:38:58,850 --> 00:39:01,540
that Deacon load to optimise the
plant recovery.

749
00:39:01,550 --> 00:39:04,860
Because if we've if we're if I'm
right in saying that they've had

750
00:39:04,870 --> 00:39:09,380
to haven't had the material on
the rum to blend the Daken lie

751
00:39:09,390 --> 00:39:13,020
down and they've had to throw
out through maybe getting more

752
00:39:13,030 --> 00:39:16,000
lower grade and getting more
stocks up there gives them a lot

753
00:39:16,010 --> 00:39:19,120
more flexibility to maintain to
optimise that plant and

754
00:39:19,130 --> 00:39:22,740
recovery.
So I'm not not sure like look

755
00:39:22,750 --> 00:39:26,240
and it's more answers which
would hopefully mean more cash,

756
00:39:26,330 --> 00:39:32,960
but it is more capital cause
like look that extra 5% recovery

757
00:39:33,250 --> 00:39:37,200
that they say they've sacrificed
5% recovery this quarter at

758
00:39:37,210 --> 00:39:41,030
seven and a half million cash on
the answers they produced like

759
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,810
because that would have been
sold at the spot price.

760
00:39:42,820 --> 00:39:46,340
The thing I don't understand
ready and if if this is the case

761
00:39:46,350 --> 00:39:50,840
and further Trev Trev's point
before this would have already

762
00:39:50,850 --> 00:39:54,140
been known before they started
binding, so why wouldn't they

763
00:39:54,150 --> 00:40:00,870
have started this at one and a
half million tonnes to begin

764
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:02,910
with?
A lot more capital they would

765
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,090
have been a lot more debt, a lot
more risk.

766
00:40:05,540 --> 00:40:09,570
I think staged approach is.
That's why.

767
00:40:09,660 --> 00:40:11,410
Is it?
Doesn't every all body have an?

768
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,890
It's a perfect an optimal rate
at which you can mine it.

769
00:40:14,950 --> 00:40:20,160
Not when they're spread out like
this, because they they do when

770
00:40:20,170 --> 00:40:23,790
they're when it's like I guess
one U1 going down.

771
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,380
But when you've got additional
areas that you can go mine

772
00:40:27,390 --> 00:40:32,760
independently, no, it doesn't
because it can, you can set up

773
00:40:32,770 --> 00:40:36,160
additional mining fronts.
You do need additional capital

774
00:40:36,170 --> 00:40:40,590
and additional fleet, but you
can add to it a lot easier when

775
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,010
it's laterally spread out and
independent like this, so.

776
00:40:44,060 --> 00:40:46,590
You know what a cynic would
propose.

777
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,910
Ohi, I reckon it's exactly what
I'm thinking.

778
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,270
Too, Well, it's a, it's a, like
you said, it's more capital, but

779
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,970
it's a, it's a positive spin on
more capital and.

780
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,870
It's a it's a story.
It's a story, but you know, I

781
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:02,550
mean, I don't know, maybe I just
you wouldn't you wouldn't you

782
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:07,230
wouldn't be surprised to see us
a growth story kind of now, now,

783
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,770
now that we've proved where I'm
cash flow positive, you might be

784
00:41:09,780 --> 00:41:13,370
able to take some of the some of
the, you know, medium term

785
00:41:13,380 --> 00:41:16,570
stress off the the hedging and
the debt repayments and stuff

786
00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:19,490
like that.
If if you have a bit more better

787
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:22,190
capitalization and yeah, and you
have a growth story.

788
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:23,720
You're talking about a capital
rise.

789
00:41:23,730 --> 00:41:27,100
Maybe.
Maybe it's a it's it's building

790
00:41:27,110 --> 00:41:30,180
up as a potential story to wrap
around a capital raise, isn't

791
00:41:30,190 --> 00:41:31,260
it?
Oht could be.

792
00:41:31,350 --> 00:41:33,900
Cause that, that I saw one
number floated for the mill

793
00:41:33,910 --> 00:41:39,020
expansion at 80 bucks.
But that's, that was just a

794
00:41:39,070 --> 00:41:43,500
research not.
But then you got the if there's

795
00:41:43,510 --> 00:41:47,330
additional mining fronts to be
mined, that's additional

796
00:41:47,530 --> 00:41:51,680
development capital for the mine
as well to create another half a

797
00:41:51,690 --> 00:41:55,370
million tonnes.
So it starts starts creeping U

798
00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:58,000
and if the God if there another
one to keep the eye on is

799
00:41:58,910 --> 00:42:01,540
because if they have development
is a bit of a bottleneck there,

800
00:42:01,550 --> 00:42:04,020
then develops.
They're doing it and like

801
00:42:04,030 --> 00:42:06,820
they're probably the quickest at
doing friggin underground

802
00:42:06,830 --> 00:42:08,750
development.
They're a bit over halfway

803
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,340
through their contract there as
well.

804
00:42:10,350 --> 00:42:13,190
I think it was a bit under 4
four year contract.

805
00:42:13,230 --> 00:42:15,660
I think they've been there two
and a bit years now.

806
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:19,040
So it'll be interesting to see
if they return depending on

807
00:42:19,050 --> 00:42:23,120
develops plans, if they retain
the contract there or if they go

808
00:42:23,130 --> 00:42:27,430
down their own owner operator
routes with developed something

809
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,770
to keep the eye on there.
But they having them there doing

810
00:42:30,780 --> 00:42:33,880
the development is a freaking
pretty bloody important, I

811
00:42:33,890 --> 00:42:38,180
think.
But yeah, I think there's.

812
00:42:39,030 --> 00:42:42,610
Yeah.
Well, with 219 million in debt,

813
00:42:43,420 --> 00:42:48,020
there's potential to fund it
with operating cash flows, but

814
00:42:48,030 --> 00:42:52,900
it remains highly levered,
highly debt leveraged and a lot

815
00:42:52,910 --> 00:42:55,560
of everything's got to go right
to keep producing that

816
00:42:55,570 --> 00:42:58,830
operational cash flow, which
look, it can be done.

817
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,750
Or Will and I've got a bit of
cash balance here.

818
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:06,910
I don't know what they are trade
creditors position is right now

819
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,290
because I didn't report that.
Have to wait till till a later

820
00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:10,490
date for that.
Yeah.

821
00:43:10,530 --> 00:43:16,100
But then yeah, like you say,
there's a yeah that there could

822
00:43:16,110 --> 00:43:18,940
be, there could be like they're
in the deck and load, which is

823
00:43:18,990 --> 00:43:20,900
happy days.
And could you, could, you could

824
00:43:20,910 --> 00:43:24,280
cash fund it or, or you could
look to be prudent in a, in a

825
00:43:24,290 --> 00:43:28,020
time when you've got a full
valuation and equity fund a

826
00:43:28,030 --> 00:43:33,330
growth plan, but also also, you
know, over, over, over fund

827
00:43:33,340 --> 00:43:35,230
their growth plan and.
Take the pressure.

828
00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:37,540
Take the pressure off the cap
structure to know each other.

829
00:43:37,550 --> 00:43:38,950
Go.
Yeah, I sound like you, mate,

830
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,310
because last time I bet against
them during cap raise and you

831
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,930
bet that they would.
And now I'm coming the other

832
00:43:43,940 --> 00:43:44,860
way.
I think you've gone the other

833
00:43:44,870 --> 00:43:49,490
way.
No, I, I still still got my eyes

834
00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:51,870
peeled, put it that way.
It's just like they're, they've

835
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,860
and look, it's they're, they've
just been adamant that they're

836
00:43:54,870 --> 00:43:58,430
not going to cause they want,
they want to be the management.

837
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,770
They wanna be the next Capricorn
sort of thing.

838
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,640
Executed fully, pretty much
fully funded.

839
00:44:04,650 --> 00:44:06,450
They did do that bit of a raise
last year.

840
00:44:06,540 --> 00:44:08,370
That was for the Tribune
decline.

841
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,450
I'll add a few raises.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

842
00:44:10,460 --> 00:44:13,380
But like for the project was.
There's a lot of equity that's

843
00:44:13,390 --> 00:44:14,630
going into this.
Yes.

844
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:19,430
Anyway I will get will get more
info by the end of the month for

845
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,650
the production and cost guidance
because yeah, it's one of those

846
00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:25,850
ones you'd want to say it like.
And what I guess what the market

847
00:44:25,860 --> 00:44:28,910
and myself are looking for is a
keen look.

848
00:44:28,980 --> 00:44:32,930
If they are a fucking aluminium
or a potash producer, I wouldn't

849
00:44:32,940 --> 00:44:35,670
give it this much attention, but
it's underground mining and I

850
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:37,950
love it.
So shoot before it.

851
00:44:38,020 --> 00:44:43,890
But you you wanna say, you wanna
say mining outrunning processing

852
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,990
and hitting that 1,000,000 tonne
rate before we even start

853
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,310
thinking about getting to 1 1/2.
But but there's yeah, it sounds

854
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,490
like there's still a lot of once
that infrastructure gets

855
00:44:55,380 --> 00:44:59,250
properly set, U yeah, wanna see
those physicals bloody

856
00:44:59,620 --> 00:45:02,640
outweighing each other.
So yeah, but look, cost

857
00:45:02,650 --> 00:45:05,850
guidance.
Just scrap those friggin days.

858
00:45:05,980 --> 00:45:10,080
DFS numbers, yeah.
And that and that should not be

859
00:45:10,090 --> 00:45:13,130
a surprise to the market that
they're going to be much higher

860
00:45:13,140 --> 00:45:15,290
than the DFS you would
anticipate.

861
00:45:15,650 --> 00:45:17,970
Yeah, I don't know.
Just don't know what brokers are

862
00:45:17,980 --> 00:45:20,380
running through their cost
assumptions.

863
00:45:20,390 --> 00:45:26,720
And there's a lot of yeah, yeah,
holds or or buyers with the

864
00:45:26,730 --> 00:45:28,850
target price just above current
price and stuff like that.

865
00:45:28,860 --> 00:45:31,330
So what if they had to revise
lower on the cost?

866
00:45:31,340 --> 00:45:34,230
Does that actually hinder,
hinder the share price?

867
00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:36,010
I don't know.
Yeah, don't know.

868
00:45:36,110 --> 00:45:37,470
Yeah, buddy.
Love it.

869
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:39,330
Love it.
Our goods go morning.

870
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,370
Go fighting.
Actually going off on a bit of a

871
00:45:42,380 --> 00:45:45,210
tangent.
We were talking about it this

872
00:45:45,220 --> 00:45:49,550
morning, the the Trump
assassination attempt, right?

873
00:45:49,660 --> 00:45:52,900
Over the weekend.
Just absolute madness, right?

874
00:45:53,690 --> 00:45:56,120
This is like literally the stuff
you say in movies.

875
00:45:56,270 --> 00:45:58,740
And look at this picture here,
right?

876
00:45:58,750 --> 00:46:02,020
I mean, look at Trump.
This is an incredible image

877
00:46:02,030 --> 00:46:04,020
regardless of what side of
politics you're on.

878
00:46:04,170 --> 00:46:06,160
He's literally just been hit by
a bullet.

879
00:46:06,170 --> 00:46:08,500
The Secret Service, allegedly.
Allegedly.

880
00:46:10,060 --> 00:46:12,230
Depending on the conspiracy
theorists, you listen.

881
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:14,530
To the glass off the
teleprompter I've heard.

882
00:46:14,540 --> 00:46:16,930
But yeah, anyway.
The Secret Service is all

883
00:46:16,940 --> 00:46:19,720
rallying around him to protect
him, and he's raising his fists

884
00:46:19,730 --> 00:46:20,880
to the air to all the
supporters.

885
00:46:20,890 --> 00:46:24,470
I mean, no matter the adversity
he encountered, he's just

886
00:46:24,540 --> 00:46:27,410
dedicated to his cause and his
country.

887
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,950
And the only person I know that
is more dedicated than Trump to

888
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,350
his cause and country is Maddie
Hall again.

889
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:37,030
With solutions.
Maddie Ohl making water grade.

890
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:42,800
Again, making water great again.
If the Gateway bladders weren't

891
00:46:42,810 --> 00:46:46,200
already sensational enough,
Maddie Hall has now got a brand

892
00:46:46,210 --> 00:46:48,520
new offering for the miners out
there.

893
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,480
Bladder rentals.
OHS really?

894
00:46:51,490 --> 00:46:53,140
Bladder rental?
Rental bladder.

895
00:46:53,210 --> 00:46:55,940
You can now rent a bladder.
Yeah, right.

896
00:46:55,990 --> 00:46:58,340
Try before you buy.
Try before you buy.

897
00:46:58,350 --> 00:47:00,420
Yeah, goods that.
It's like bringing back

898
00:47:00,430 --> 00:47:04,360
Blockbuster, but for bladders.
Yeah, yeah, cheap, cheap

899
00:47:04,370 --> 00:47:06,220
Tuesday.
Get a pizza in the bladder.

900
00:47:07,630 --> 00:47:09,650
But with Santa and party ready
to go, how?

901
00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:13,320
Good is so good.
Buddy Hall so you could get What

902
00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:16,780
do you get for Jay on a rental?
So you can rent out a get wet

903
00:47:16,790 --> 00:47:20,230
bladder to your mindset for as
long or as little as you need.

904
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:24,270
You get the full get wet service
with installation and all the

905
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,390
supports included just as if you
were buying one.

906
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,120
It helps miners reduce their
CapEx.

907
00:47:30,130 --> 00:47:33,490
I mean, what more could you?
Want so is there more?

908
00:47:34,370 --> 00:47:38,990
You know what, I don't know?
I don't know if you can get

909
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,410
better than that.
I mean, like big props to Maddie

910
00:47:41,420 --> 00:47:45,270
Hall and the teams dedication to
putting clients needs first.

911
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:49,200
They're backing the bladders.
Go get wet and go straight.

912
00:47:49,210 --> 00:47:51,040
Have a look at.
Look at him here.

913
00:47:51,050 --> 00:47:52,790
Look at him with his.
Look at him.

914
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:54,270
Flawed.
Go get.

915
00:47:54,340 --> 00:47:57,230
Go get wet.
And go Australia, lover.

916
00:47:57,490 --> 00:48:00,290
Good, good work, Jason.
That's bloody.

917
00:48:00,460 --> 00:48:01,970
I can't believe you found that
image.

918
00:48:01,980 --> 00:48:05,410
That is, it's a powerful thing,
mate.

919
00:48:05,420 --> 00:48:07,650
What's going on around the
grounds, Jacey?

920
00:48:07,660 --> 00:48:11,140
So the first one, first cab off
the rag.

921
00:48:11,470 --> 00:48:13,940
Grey put out their calling in
Ding Ding Ding.

922
00:48:13,950 --> 00:48:16,620
I am a shareholder.
Lots of cash.

923
00:48:16,670 --> 00:48:20,360
Cash, lots of cash.
So they ended the quarter with

924
00:48:20,410 --> 00:48:26,860
$867 million of cash in the bank
and that was after raising 600

925
00:48:26,870 --> 00:48:31,860
mil or 600 bucks, sorry, during
the quarter, so much cash.

926
00:48:31,870 --> 00:48:34,560
They've earned over 5 million of
interest just for the quarter.

927
00:48:34,630 --> 00:48:37,440
They should be earning more than
that soon if they get in A5

928
00:48:37,450 --> 00:48:39,320
percenter that's bloody 40
bucks.

929
00:48:39,430 --> 00:48:41,150
Well, that's 600 only came in
late.

930
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:42,600
Yeah, yeah.
So they should be getting about

931
00:48:42,610 --> 00:48:46,760
10 mil 1/4 after this interest.
Yeah, fantastic.

932
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,830
You want equity returns, not
fixed income returns.

933
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,650
As a shareholder, I don't.
I don't want to.

934
00:48:52,810 --> 00:48:55,330
If I could interest the bank I
want share share it.

935
00:48:55,550 --> 00:48:58,270
At least it's paid for.
The bloody, The raising.

936
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:02,180
Fees OHT.
The clips, That's weird.

937
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,050
So the key takeaway is there's
not much new news.

938
00:49:07,660 --> 00:49:11,970
Credit approved term sheets was
you know received from a

939
00:49:12,020 --> 00:49:15,910
syndicate of banks for a $1
billion senior debt facility and

940
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,540
an additional $130 million cost
overrun facility that was

941
00:49:19,550 --> 00:49:23,530
announced during the quarter.
Degree saying that the that debt

942
00:49:23,540 --> 00:49:29,090
package and existing cash are
expected to fully fund the

943
00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:31,950
estimated capital cost of Hemi.
I like the use of the word

944
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:37,480
expected there formal docks on
the project financing is

945
00:49:37,490 --> 00:49:41,740
anticipated to get all sorted by
the end of this calendar year.

946
00:49:42,190 --> 00:49:45,580
Nath and EFA, the two to
government agencies, are

947
00:49:45,590 --> 00:49:49,170
considering participating in
that debt syndicate.

948
00:49:49,210 --> 00:49:51,370
So that new news, I didn't, I
didn't heard them.

949
00:49:51,380 --> 00:49:53,650
Before that was, I think that's
the first time I've seen them

950
00:49:53,660 --> 00:49:56,340
that was included in the in the
quarterly so.

951
00:49:56,710 --> 00:49:58,530
How do you feel about that as a
taxpayer?

952
00:49:59,490 --> 00:50:01,910
Well, given that most of the
other no funding hasn't gone

953
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,880
that way, hopefully this time
it's different.

954
00:50:04,890 --> 00:50:07,420
I mean, I haven't really dabbled
in gold too much, so it'll be

955
00:50:07,430 --> 00:50:09,960
interesting to see how this
goes.

956
00:50:09,970 --> 00:50:13,020
I mean, a lot of their previous
forays have been in what, like

957
00:50:13,030 --> 00:50:17,090
bauxite, potash, Carrie.
You know, sense.

958
00:50:17,180 --> 00:50:21,250
Mineral sands, all of that so
and final debt drawdown is

959
00:50:21,260 --> 00:50:25,510
primarily subject to the receipt
of enviro approvals and FRG by

960
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,380
the company.
Looking at the enviro approvals,

961
00:50:28,390 --> 00:50:31,540
the second section in their
quarterly, it seems that like

962
00:50:31,550 --> 00:50:34,290
they're progressing but on the
slower side.

963
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:38,080
Just quote from the quarterly.
These approval pathways are

964
00:50:38,090 --> 00:50:41,750
consistent with those published
in the HEMI DFS from September

965
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,130
23, although the timing of
receiving such approvals is

966
00:50:45,180 --> 00:50:48,860
uncertain.
Lots of progress and various

967
00:50:48,870 --> 00:50:52,800
items on the project development
front, including expressions of

968
00:50:52,810 --> 00:50:59,160
interest to contractors for a PC
or APCM bids for the Hemi plant.

969
00:50:59,270 --> 00:51:03,600
And we saw also a few days ago
the release of the Hemi regional

970
00:51:03,610 --> 00:51:08,560
study, which adds like around
another 140,000 oz per annum to

971
00:51:08,570 --> 00:51:14,200
Hemby between years 4/9.
Fuck this, I'm going to just

972
00:51:14,210 --> 00:51:16,780
sign it to grey.
Makes me nervous.

973
00:51:17,310 --> 00:51:20,070
Hmm, what?
What makes you nervous about it?

974
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,540
Maddie, let me go through my
nerve wracking reasons, right.

975
00:51:23,550 --> 00:51:27,000
1.2 green refractory deposit.
That is fucking huge.

976
00:51:27,070 --> 00:51:30,290
It is being built as a huge
operation.

977
00:51:30,550 --> 00:51:35,590
I'm like, is there is there a a
chalky risk to this that it

978
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:41,630
might not be that big and get
downgraded in the it's not as

979
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,670
big as everyone thinks it is.
I don't know if that's gonna

980
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,560
happen.
It's in the bloody pill brats.

981
00:51:45,570 --> 00:51:48,810
So it's going to be dealing with
friggin cyclones all the time.

982
00:51:48,820 --> 00:51:54,650
And it's like imagine the
imagine the quantum of randomise

983
00:51:54,660 --> 00:51:59,190
that would make the Oz that are
attributed to any cyclone delays

984
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:03,650
up there.
And yeah, it's just, yeah,

985
00:52:03,660 --> 00:52:07,710
there's so many moving parts.
It's a brand new, I know you can

986
00:52:07,720 --> 00:52:11,190
recruit anyone you want, but a,
you know, a new company to build

987
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:15,070
one of the biggest gold mines,
definitely the one of the

988
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,390
biggest recently built gold
mines in the country.

989
00:52:18,460 --> 00:52:21,440
And established in the process,
but one that does not exist here

990
00:52:21,450 --> 00:52:25,830
in Australia yet.
No, no, it's yeah.

991
00:52:25,900 --> 00:52:27,350
Makes me nervous.
And.

992
00:52:28,550 --> 00:52:33,150
Ding Ding Dong.
Yeah, and a team that needs to

993
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,290
prove themselves, not one that
is proven.

994
00:52:35,500 --> 00:52:38,950
Nah, and talk about a friggin
trial by fire.

995
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,980
It's but yeah, it's just, I
don't know.

996
00:52:42,060 --> 00:52:43,890
I don't know.
God, if it was fucking 1/2

997
00:52:43,900 --> 00:52:46,750
grammes, maybe there's a
refractory.

998
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,950
Well, as you say, just a .1
gramme a tonne movement when you

999
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,290
when you're mining or you're
processing, I mean in absolute

1000
00:52:54,300 --> 00:52:58,270
terms it's not huge, but in the
case of a 1:00-ish gramme per

1001
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,440
tunnel body, that's 10%.
Yeah.

1002
00:53:00,450 --> 00:53:02,140
And that, that's 12%, that's a
guy.

1003
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:06,560
Imagine a freaking 10% variance
in the recovery if the pox isn't

1004
00:53:06,630 --> 00:53:09,820
work when it performing like
yeah.

1005
00:53:09,890 --> 00:53:13,580
That's so not without it, some
without its challenges, but very

1006
00:53:13,590 --> 00:53:16,810
keen to see what.
Happens like travel.

1007
00:53:16,820 --> 00:53:20,160
I think you got listened to by
some people from the Fr.

1008
00:53:20,170 --> 00:53:21,860
I was listening to the
Chanticleer.

1009
00:53:22,030 --> 00:53:24,270
I didn't listen.
To this the other the other day.

1010
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:29,500
What would they say?
Shout out Macca, the guest, the

1011
00:53:29,950 --> 00:53:31,480
colleague he had on.
I forget it.

1012
00:53:31,490 --> 00:53:34,030
I'm sorry, No apologies for
that.

1013
00:53:34,090 --> 00:53:38,210
But she actually talked about
mining and I think I don't know

1014
00:53:38,220 --> 00:53:42,100
if it was specific about mining,
about impacts of rainfall being

1015
00:53:42,110 --> 00:53:46,390
negative, but and she said that
there's never been a mention of

1016
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:51,010
cost of guidance uplifts due to
better than expected rainfall.

1017
00:53:51,020 --> 00:53:53,050
Oh really.
And I feel that that came from

1018
00:53:53,060 --> 00:53:54,250
you.
Is it Miriam?

1019
00:53:54,540 --> 00:53:56,650
Yeah, I think it was.
Miriam she So she writes Rear

1020
00:53:56,660 --> 00:53:58,230
Window.
She listens to the shout out

1021
00:53:58,240 --> 00:54:01,020
Miriam.
That would be why.

1022
00:54:02,030 --> 00:54:05,280
She's the one that wrote the
cram care article off the back

1023
00:54:05,290 --> 00:54:07,430
of our work that she got from
the she got the inspired from

1024
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,380
the party.
Ohe shout out, I'll just bloody

1025
00:54:10,390 --> 00:54:14,190
confirm it was her cause I'll
sound like a dickhead otherwise.

1026
00:54:18,180 --> 00:54:20,250
No Vesna.
OHP fuck.

1027
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,330
Sorry, Miriam, it wasn't you it
was based on.

1028
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,690
Yeah.
So yeah, give trap credit next.

1029
00:54:27,700 --> 00:54:28,410
Time.
No, no, no.

1030
00:54:28,420 --> 00:54:34,420
I'm sure she got independently.
Right.

1031
00:54:34,430 --> 00:54:36,160
It's good.
Jason, what's next?

1032
00:54:36,570 --> 00:54:41,620
Line Town quick update, they
added another off take for

1033
00:54:41,630 --> 00:54:45,470
initial ramp up volume, so
100,000 tonnes to Beijing Sino

1034
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:49,580
mine over 10 months commencing
this September.

1035
00:54:49,630 --> 00:54:52,510
The pricing is a little bit
different to some of their

1036
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,820
existing offtake, so it's going
to be determined using a formula

1037
00:54:55,830 --> 00:55:00,120
referencing market prices for
battery grade lithium carbonate,

1038
00:55:00,130 --> 00:55:04,110
not spodumene index indexes.
But the sign this the pricing is

1039
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,380
the same as all the other
pricing is that you never know

1040
00:55:06,390 --> 00:55:08,530
the pricing.
Yeah, pretty much, yeah.

1041
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,390
And in addition to the the
existing long-term off takes

1042
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:17,940
they've got with Tesla, LG and
forward, this one will be and

1043
00:55:17,950 --> 00:55:21,010
this provides them with a bit of
flexibility to sell spodumene

1044
00:55:21,020 --> 00:55:25,630
that may not match the product
quality specs that are in their

1045
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:31,130
existing Co off take agreements
and the expected delivery before

1046
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,070
30 September.
I think it's quite interesting

1047
00:55:33,140 --> 00:55:36,500
is you wouldn't do that if you
weren't pretty bullish on your

1048
00:55:36,510 --> 00:55:39,440
ramp up going bang on.
Hmm.

1049
00:55:39,670 --> 00:55:41,510
So that's that one there.
Right.

1050
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:44,230
I saw, I saw that one.
They're they're pretty they got

1051
00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:47,280
a lot of contracts in place in
the early years now.

1052
00:55:47,350 --> 00:55:50,780
And yeah, like, and I think I
raised this round, they came out

1053
00:55:50,790 --> 00:55:53,600
with the connote.
But like, what happens if they

1054
00:55:53,610 --> 00:55:56,720
can't meet all of the
contractors problem, right?

1055
00:55:56,730 --> 00:55:59,300
Yeah, Anyway.
Gotta buy it off someone off

1056
00:55:59,310 --> 00:56:01,180
something I don't.
Think it depends on the sponge

1057
00:56:01,190 --> 00:56:03,240
mean spotlight, it depends on
the terms.

1058
00:56:03,250 --> 00:56:05,920
Not not all of them are not all
tax structure that way and

1059
00:56:05,930 --> 00:56:09,480
oftentimes you off takers will
be flexible when you have

1060
00:56:09,490 --> 00:56:11,450
challenges.
But I'd love to know the details

1061
00:56:11,460 --> 00:56:12,770
of that one.
That's probably an easy answer

1062
00:56:12,780 --> 00:56:14,210
to it, but.
Yeah.

1063
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:18,220
And last one for the day, we had
make a medal.

1064
00:56:18,230 --> 00:56:23,100
So they picked up a 750 kilowatt
ball meal for their merchants

1065
00:56:23,110 --> 00:56:26,340
and Gold project.
It's claiming to expand their

1066
00:56:26,350 --> 00:56:31,900
processing capacity by 30% to
640,000 tonnes per annum,

1067
00:56:32,290 --> 00:56:35,380
cutting back some of their ball
mill CapEx compared to the DFS

1068
00:56:35,390 --> 00:56:38,540
and reducing the the lead time
as well by 33 weeks.

1069
00:56:38,550 --> 00:56:43,580
So it's expected to be on site
this September and by doing that

1070
00:56:43,590 --> 00:56:47,630
sort of allows some previously
excluded answers from their

1071
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:51,630
recent DFS that were excluded
due to mill capacity constraints

1072
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,970
to come in.
And also some ore stockpiles

1073
00:56:53,980 --> 00:56:57,070
that have built up in the, those
initial years to be taken

1074
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,830
advantage of with the, the
expanded capacity.

1075
00:56:59,940 --> 00:57:04,800
And they're doing an updated DFS
off the back of this, uh, later

1076
00:57:04,810 --> 00:57:07,050
this year.
And I think that would dragging

1077
00:57:07,060 --> 00:57:10,650
out the sort of the processing
life based on the mill capacity

1078
00:57:10,660 --> 00:57:12,430
and the last one.
Yeah.

1079
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,890
Probably compressing it.
Now compressing it now, which is

1080
00:57:14,900 --> 00:57:19,740
much, much more sensible just to
get that cash flow more of it up

1081
00:57:19,750 --> 00:57:23,790
front.
Um, and the funding that with an

1082
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,260
existing secure bridging loan
which they announced the other

1083
00:57:26,270 --> 00:57:29,980
month, which they also used to
buy some of the camp

1084
00:57:30,030 --> 00:57:34,810
infrastructure from De Grasa,
which is not too far away, which

1085
00:57:34,820 --> 00:57:39,810
was also at, at a fraction of
the defects CapEx estimate.

1086
00:57:39,820 --> 00:57:43,830
So I think a good proactive move
by maker to sort of minimise

1087
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,180
costs and, and lay times where
they can.

1088
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:52,210
We are expecting credit approval
for the the main project finance

1089
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,700
facility for Murchison this
month.

1090
00:57:55,550 --> 00:57:59,440
The DFS has 44 mil in pre
production CapEx.

1091
00:57:59,450 --> 00:58:03,360
They're about A50 mil market cap
company last I checked.

1092
00:58:03,510 --> 00:58:07,490
I expect the, I would expect the
project finance to be around

1093
00:58:07,500 --> 00:58:11,020
that 30 mil mark sort of give or
take 5 mil.

1094
00:58:11,170 --> 00:58:13,960
And then obviously they'll have
to solve for the balance, you

1095
00:58:13,970 --> 00:58:16,460
know equity or some other
alternative.

1096
00:58:16,470 --> 00:58:19,740
But you know, even if they get
sturdy million in project

1097
00:58:19,750 --> 00:58:24,090
finance, that's still 15 mil,
they'd have at least 15 mil

1098
00:58:25,180 --> 00:58:27,750
because you'll have a bit of
working capital leading into

1099
00:58:28,660 --> 00:58:33,120
going into production as well,
which you know, 15 mil equities

1100
00:58:33,130 --> 00:58:34,930
around 30% of the current market
cap.

1101
00:58:34,940 --> 00:58:37,550
So that's pretty chunky.
So I'm keen to see what sort of

1102
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:41,610
financing solution they come up
with saying as we haven't really

1103
00:58:41,620 --> 00:58:47,390
seen a single asset gold
developer come into production

1104
00:58:49,420 --> 00:58:51,470
super recently, well, there
hasn't been many.

1105
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:52,730
So I'm keen to see what they
come.

1106
00:58:52,740 --> 00:58:54,430
Up with daily Macquarie funding
it.

1107
00:58:54,490 --> 00:58:57,910
Yeah, Nah, Nah.
At least it's like it's

1108
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,510
brownfields, at least a lot of
existing infrastructure and

1109
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,720
mine.
So it's not like you wouldn't

1110
00:59:02,730 --> 00:59:05,690
say it's easier, but it's like
it's a lot more established than

1111
00:59:05,740 --> 00:59:08,290
yes, slightly build.
No, we've seen how bloody hard

1112
00:59:08,300 --> 00:59:10,490
it is to build a brand new one
from scratch.

1113
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:14,350
It's a prick of a spot to be in
when you're on that small cap

1114
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,030
end and you're you're trying to
sort financing and the whole

1115
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,330
market knows that you're there
might be an equity portion and

1116
00:59:19,340 --> 00:59:21,990
they don't wanna bloody couldn't
they just wanna wait for the.

1117
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,330
Equity that.
The joys have been on the

1118
00:59:24,340 --> 00:59:26,660
smaller end of town.
Yeah, tough going.

1119
00:59:26,730 --> 00:59:29,100
No good on it.
I like I like this sort of shit.

1120
00:59:29,330 --> 00:59:32,360
I can get the dribs and the
dribs and drabs around the

1121
00:59:32,370 --> 00:59:34,800
joint.
Saving money they got got a lot

1122
00:59:34,810 --> 00:59:37,240
of skin in the game.
The boys that are running it.

1123
00:59:37,250 --> 00:59:38,920
So the treating it like a
business.

1124
00:59:38,930 --> 00:59:41,680
I like it.
Yeah, hopefully, hopefully,

1125
00:59:41,870 --> 00:59:44,540
hopefully it's it's a palatable
debt quantum that comes to

1126
00:59:44,550 --> 00:59:47,470
market because yeah, some of the
historic troubles is you put too

1127
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:50,500
much debt in it really high risk
to bring new developments on

1128
00:59:50,510 --> 00:59:53,660
mine and on online.
Sometimes that the structuring

1129
00:59:53,670 --> 00:59:56,790
of whatever project finance is
in there is to onerous for

1130
00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:00,040
whatever hiccups come along and
equity has to buddy save the day

1131
01:00:00,050 --> 01:00:02,560
which is bad for shareholders.
So hopefully that doesn't happen

1132
01:00:02,570 --> 01:00:04,700
this time.
Yeah all these cars you'd rather

1133
01:00:04,710 --> 01:00:09,660
have 30 mil than 219 yeah, but
you'd rather have a lot more oz

1134
01:00:09,670 --> 01:00:12,950
too.
So true to pay off the 219 have

1135
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,190
good work JC fucker love avid
Yotti.

1136
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:17,320
You know, you're on it most
weeks now.

1137
01:00:17,330 --> 01:00:20,060
Yeah, just like.
Yeah, you got my weekly segment.

1138
01:00:20,070 --> 01:00:22,820
Below it.
Another day that we have too

1139
01:00:22,830 --> 01:00:24,130
much news I didn't even get to
talk about.

1140
01:00:24,140 --> 01:00:26,610
The Rumble in the Jungle is a
bidding war on Frasier Rotor.

1141
01:00:26,620 --> 01:00:28,440
Could you believe it?
Anyway, I can't believe that.

1142
01:00:28,450 --> 01:00:31,060
Unfortunately I just have to
save it for another.

1143
01:00:31,070 --> 01:00:34,730
Day oht mate, there better be no
news out tomorrow so traffic can

1144
01:00:34,740 --> 01:00:37,180
give you the bloody Sierra
Rutile the attention it

1145
01:00:37,190 --> 01:00:38,320
deserves.
Quarterly season?

1146
01:00:38,330 --> 01:00:41,550
I doubt that's the case mate.
I know Bellevue threw a spanner

1147
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:44,650
in the works getting it out
early today or pump me up for a

1148
01:00:44,660 --> 01:00:47,070
Monday, right?
I thanks all the bloody

1149
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,110
partners.
Axis morning technology.

1150
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:53,400
Remember the two week free trial
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01:00:53,410 --> 01:00:59,820
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01:00:59,830 --> 01:01:05,420
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1153
01:01:05,430 --> 01:01:10,000
waterboards kidro.
Sorry, yeah.

1154
01:01:10,070 --> 01:01:12,330
Else what else would you use
than Spark Chart?

1155
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:15,750
The information contained in
this episode of Money of Mine is

1156
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:17,990
of general nature only and does
not take into account the

1157
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,550
objectives, financial situation
or needs of any particular

1158
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,580
person.
Before making any investment

1159
01:01:23,590 --> 01:01:26,670
decision, you should consult
with your financial advisor and

1160
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,910
consider how appropriate the
advice is to your objectives,

1161
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:31,960
financial situation and needs.