Hey Jimmy,
What a great day for Renascor. After securing the $185m loan from the Federal Government, we now have a $50m Placement to bring in Institutional Investors and a further $10m offered to existing holders. This now sets up Renascor to be Fully Funded for Stage 1 and in a position to make a FID in Q3 and commence construction in Q4.
We should find out the details of the Placement tomorrow morning by the indicative schedule.
Important to note the use of the funds from this placement:
- Purchase / Down Payment on long lead items for the plant (No point waiting another 3 months until Government Money Comes through, able to purchase today)
- FEED Study
- Further Drilling to Move Inferred resources to indicated / measured, as well as resource expansion (I'll touch on this further below)
- Expanded Pilot Program i.e. more samples to additional partners (Expansion Comes to Mind i.e. Stage 2 & Stage 3)
Following the Government Loan and completion of the Placement + SPP Renascor is now fully funded for Stage 1 of the Project. With a total fully diluted holding of 2.23B shares on issued.
For anyone who had been following my DCF Model and Potential Future Company Value postings over the past few months, you would know that I assumed
2.25B SOI in my model (Not a bad bloody estimation if you ask me). I always anticipated a 10-15% dilution for RNU to be fully funded and it has turned out to be bang on the money
The use of getting funds in the hand today ensures that we make the deposit to secure the long lead items in order for RNU to commence construction by Christmas. No point waiting until the Government Loan comes through in ~July and then make a deposit for long lead items. They are called long lead items for good reason
The other important aspect I wish to touch on is drilling for further resources + upgrading existing inferred to indicated or measured.
Currently our Resources sit at 87.4Mt and our modelled reserves are utilising 51.5Mt, with the majority of the remainder being inferred (You cannot use inferred resources in a financial model). What would it take to increase our Reserves to utilise the majority of the existing resources ?I touched on this earlier this year, the answer is a small In-Fill Drilling Campaign on the existing resource to upgrade Inferred resources into the Indicated or Measured category. I've highlighted on the bottom picture below (In Purple Dots to indicate roughly where I would drill) and I wouldn't even drill that deep, I already know where the orebody is, i already know what is to the North, East, South and West, I know the graphite is there, I simply need to make the drill hole spacing shorter to upgrade the JORC category from inferred into indicated i.e. fill in the gaps.When I hear Dave speak about Stage 2 Expansion and Possibly a future Stage 3, this is exactly what he means. Plugging a few extra In-Fill holes, increasing the Ore Reserves and potentially expanding for new resources (Step Out Drilling).
What is the significance ? I believe the DFS that will be coming out later this Quarter will be for Stage 1 and Stage 2 Only. Given that we have a total of 55.3Mt within the Measured and Indicated Categories. I have no doubt in my mind that the company will model a shorter mine life i.e. 20-25 years at a much higher Throughput than what was previously modelled i.e. in excess of 2Mt per annum throughput.
Once Drilling is complete, we can remodel the mine at a later stage next year to cover Stage 3 that increases the mine life beyond the 20-25 years that will be covered in the soon to be released DFS.
All considered this is a great day for RNU. Being Fully Funded and in a position to commence construction later this year. Insto's aren't tipping in 50m because it is going to go down in value, they see massive potential.
Over the past 18 months I have seen the likes of AVZ, CXO, FFX, PLS, LKE complete placements and some have offered existing holders the opportunity to buy in via SPP.
We are no longer a Junior Explorer. We are now Fully Funded and off to Construction
GLTAHs moving forward
(20min delay)
