No they did not have the money. Since the date of that announcement there have been approx 40 mill shares issued with a total of around $100 mill. ( that does not include OW or Sino shares being proposed)
At the end of Dec 2014 they had $7 mill cash left and $6 mill of the loan still available.
So say $13 mill available take off the $100 mill raised since the announcement and you are left with a negative $87 mill cash with the Electricals at $24 mill and two quarters to commissioing at $9 mill quarter which means that statement was wrong by at least $129 million.
So no, they did not have the cash.
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