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28/09/18
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Originally posted by Cadel
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Whilst we can take all of these reports with a grain of salt. I think this would be a fantastic move. (TAW is my second biggest holding after GXY). Bald hill is a great resource that has only been party drilled out. TAW went the somewhat brave path of drilling a little and straight to building the mine. They did very well getting it up and running in record time and with no debt. I think AMAL basically paid for it and gained a 50% stake in the process. TAWs CEO Mark Calderwood seems like a very smart bloke and an excellent operator. He knows lithium and previously wrote a book about lithium in WA many years ago. He would be perfect to complement AT. AT could work on the corporate side and the wheeling and dealing and Mark could concentrate on the lithium side of business. From my limited understanding of AMAL, they don’t seem to add much in terms of management. By the way if their was a takeover it would be a takeover of AMAL since TAW and AMAL are merging. Makes for a much cleaner takeover since it will be 100% owned. Mark will run the new merged entity called AMAL.
Some synergies come from that fact Primero built both mines so there may be many similarities. The two mines are many hundreds of kms apart but they could still use the same work force for many things and move them around from site to site. Move the drillers and blasters as needed plus many of the others. They both ship from Esperance so they could use the same storage and ships etc. if one was running slow for whatever reason the other could take up the slack. I suppose they would build a processor at Esperance.
Hope this happens and it would make some sense as not enough seems to happening at SDV for it to be our next mine. No big ponds yet seems silly if it were the case.
TAW has spun off its Cowan resource as part of the merger. It could be a huge resource also which I’m sure GXY wouldn’t mind laying it’s hands on.
Sometimes I get the feeling that they are very confident with the hard rock and a bit more uncertain about the brine. The hard rock mines need to mark hay while the sun shines and good brines will be needed when the market is fully matured and the pricing comes off the boil a bit. So it makes perfect sense.
Remember also GXY don’t need to buy AMAL/TAW they could always offer shares and merge like we did with GMM. I’m sure much smarter people than us are crunching the numbers. The fact that Bald Hill has only been partly drilled out and as a result only a small mine life currently could help GXY get it for a more reasonable price. I for one can’t see us having SDV built before we gain a few more resources.
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Hey Cadel, l thought Brine needed the sun shine to make hay, notHard rock. And please don't tell Gekko that T.A.W. largest shareholder at 16% is J.P. Morgan. all the best