This is a mobile optimized page that loads fast, if you want to load the real page, click this text.

DEG - De Grey Mining

hook in mate
rcw1
 

You may get some in the 80s if the market tanks. You may also if the Capex in the PFS is materially different to the scoping study. Say, in the $1.2b vicinity.
 
You may get some in the 80s if the market tanks. You may also if the Capex in the PFS is materially different to the scoping study. Say, in the $1.2b vicinity.
Yes, it could well be that way in the current rocking time.
 

Not a great day for DEG to come out with this, but it looks a little better than I expected, but most importantly, the Capex doesn't look to have blown out way past $1b, which would have been a major worry. So, this is good news to me.

Over 500koz pa for 10+ years is incredible. 637Koz in year 5 will be a banger. 2 year payback is significant for that much Capex. NPV $3.9b v 2.8b in the scoping study is quite a jump. All these figures should get even better with further resource growth and likely exploration success. Not many stand alone mines of this scale in the World.


 
Last edited:
If I am looking way ahead into the company future sp, may be its time to throw in a K on low today...shall wait n see today
 
If I am looking way ahead into the company future sp, may be its time to throw in a K on low today...shall wait n see today

Current MC at $1.2b and an NPV of $3.9b pre-tax and $2.7b post tax means there is quite an arbitrage at current price.
 
Well, this was my tip in the monthly comp hoping that this PFS would surprise to the upside, which I think it did, just, but it's only up a measly 3%. I think general POG downhill slide and risk-off punting is probably holding it back, like a lot of explorers at the moment. Oh well. :-(
 
Same. Have held for quite a while, took the profit today and investing elsewhere
This is another of my trading stock , buy low to sell since the early years. Still recalling having some competition with WAF traders/holders.
My only lament today, bite my bullet and had pay high on PLS n now wish that I have a bit more patience before entering.
 
Seems a reasonable enough PFS. I can't see any glaring issues. My only skepticism is if the grade will hold up as they expect or if it will be 0.1 to 0.2 g/t lower when they actually start mining - which often seems to be the case.
I'm holding till it gets to a EV closer to it's NPV on the DFS.
It appears to be a recent phenomenon over the past few years to push pre-tax NPVs and IRRs in resource projects. When I look to invest, I always look at after tax profits and I'm quite certain that was always the way it was... DEG is valued at 48% of the post-tax NPV. I think that is a fair valuation at this stage, it's still a big chunk of money they need to get their hands on. Surely Newcrest or someone will look to buy them out. Will be interesting to see what catalyst there is outside of gold price increases to lessen the gap between NPV and EV.

Below are some excerpts from an old, but still good report on NPV ratios and valuations in the market. The graph is also from the report and is telling. Take for example BGL, after the initial feasibility it was probably valued at 100-130% of the NPV and had a resource grade just blow 10g/t. CAI was an outlier. They always had/have a very high EV/NPV - but they had low capex and thus lower risk of major blowouts.

For the first time in this series of reports, Edison performed a price to project NPV analysis for a sample of 63 companies. The results correlate extremely closely to Edison’s past analyses of companies at different stages of development in terms of variable discount rates. The ‘average’ project has a published NPV of US$433.1m, an average IRR of 43.2% and the average company valuation is 52.4% of NPV. However, the skewness of the distribution of valuations relative to project economics renders mean values of much less use in formulating valuations than modal values. In determining a company’s valuation, we also prove that the most important tangible factor is its project grade, followed by its IRR, its jurisdiction and its size. However, all vary with time. In general though, investors appear to exhibit a preference for projects with a lower capital intensity – perhaps as a consequence of a lack of certainty over the size and direction of future metals’ price movements.
 

Yes, a major must be looking. I was tipping Gold Fields due to the GOR linkage, but they've got a lot of debt and mild cash flow compared to the others. Newcrest are in the middle of a couple of major growth projects so not sure if they have the capacity to take this on. I would like them to as I'm a very long term NCM holder.

The other factors with discount to NPV are location (not just jurisdiction) and perhaps blue sky exploration potential. The market might be underestimating how good DEGs ground is positioned and the prospect of finding another Mallina. Or, Mr Market is right, and these things are factored in...

That's a great report you linked in there, thanks Triangle.
 
For what is effectively still an explorer with a PFS (maybe developer) they are chewing through the cash. A huge management team to work on a DFS. I guess it’s a big project…

 
Gold Road boss Duncan Gibbs may have given a hint to the holder of de Grey mining that they are not satisfied with 20% of the stocks and may go higher. From The Australian
Mick
 
Gold Road boss Duncan Gibbs may have given a hint to the holder of de Grey mining that they are not satisfied with 20% of the stocks and may go higher. From The Australian

Mick

I can't see how GOR can take over DEG unless Gold Fields are along for the ride. I still don't understand why one of the other majors didn't swoop this up earlier. Maybe waiting on the development studies and ore processing capex/opex. Seems like it's going to be around the billion mark +/- which will be paid back pretty quickly. Maybe there's something about the deposit that the majors don't like.
 
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more...