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There is one thing always in high demand, when an arms race is pending.Helps that Iron Ore futures are soaring as BHP gained +3.41% as well
Great day for the big miner's.
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NickelThere is one thing always in high demand, when an arms race is pending.
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have no reason to sell ( yet )
however timing additional parcel buys is still on the agenda
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FMG's Williams racing acquisition is getting a bit of airplay.
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UK-based firm Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) – owned by Australian iron ore mining company Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) – has revealed a new electric hypercar platform, set to enter production in 2024.
Williams Advanced Engineering is a former subsidiary of the Williams Formula One racing team, and was acquired by FMG earlier this year for $310 million.
The WAE EVR is a ready-built electric-car platform which car makers of any size can purchase from the engineering company, rather than investing in the development of their own bespoke architectures – similar to the company's EVX platform revealed last year.
Williams Advanced Engineering: Australian-owned company reveals 1650kW electric hypercar chassis
Williams Advanced Engineering has unveiled the basis of a new 1650kW electric hypercar, with the Australian-owned firm targeting established car makers as its key clients.
Williams Advanced Engineering is a former subsidiary of the Williams Formula One racing team, and was acquired by FMG earlier this year for $310 million.
The WAE EVR is a ready-built electric-car platform which car makers of any size can purchase from the engineering company, rather than investing in the development of their own bespoke architectures – similar to the company's EVX platform revealed last year.
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Like that article: https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/meet-the-forrest-young-gun-who-shot-down-bhp-20220906-p5bfus
Also shows how BHP model is flawn...
Agile vs old style corporate.....
Also shows how BHP model is flawn...
Agile vs old style corporate.....
Good morning qldfrog
Are you able to cut and paste this article please?
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For whatever reason i was able to read the article in full this very morning but behind firewall now?
i am not a subscriber so can not cut and paste extracts either now.
Any afr subscriber able to put some meaningfull extracts?
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@qldfrog I'm not a subscriber either. If I want to read an article behind a paywall I copy & paste the heading into Google as it's most likely been syndicated to other sites. Below is the article in question
# START
Meet the Forrest young gun who shot down BHP
Luca Giacovazzi is a rising star in the Andrew Forrest business empire and boss of Wyloo Metals which stared down BHP in the bidding war for green minerals deposits in Canada. Wyloo Metals wunderkind Luca Giacovazzi has made a lot of money for Andrew Forrest since making his first big pitch to the iron ore billionaire, and he might end up costing BHP plenty.Giacovazzi, then just 27, called his first presentation slide pack Nickel: Get its mojo back in what was a risky move given Forrest’s painful memories from his Anaconda Nickel venture.
Luca Giacovazzi in his house that was the former home and design studio of Perth architect Iwan Iwanoff.
In the 3½ years since, Giacovazzi has won a bruising takeover battle with BHP over Noront Resources and done a heap of strategic and capital creative deals in green minerals and gold-copper. There’s a heavy weighting to key battery ingredient nickel and big plans for rare earths as Wyloo emerges as the green minerals cousin to Forrest’s hydrogen business being spawned out of Fortescue Metals Group in an ambitious assault on the global decarbonisation challenge.
Wyloo, part of the Forrest family’s private investment arm Tattarang, started with a mixed bag of assets valued at $15 million. It is estimated the value of the portfolio is now about $700 million and that excludes Noront, which – if all goes to plan for Wyloo in Ontario, Canada – could become a multibillion-dollar asset.
Shaking every tree
A piece of advice from Forrest that has stuck with Giacovazzi is you do the deal on the way in, not on the way out. What that boils down to is “buy well”. Wyloo did a great deal on its way into Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Noront and that is what ultimately led to its underdog victory against a bigger rival that had the Noront board in its corner.“We were spending a lot of time in that nickel sulphide space, and we were shaking every tree, looking under every stone for projects,” Giacovazzi says. “This one stood out and it’s like, ‘why has nobody done this project? It’s one of the best ore bodies we’ve seen’. “People forget that the deal that we actually did on the way into Noront was a really good deal.”
Wyloo did some digging and found out Resource Capital Funds had a fund coming to an end and was looking to exit its position in Noront, the owners of the highest-grade nickel discovery in Canada since Vale-owned Voisey’s Bay.
The Forrest camp was delighted to emerge with a near 38 percent stake in Noront for $US26.5 million in December 2020. The acquisition of the RCF stake also came with a royalty and some other good things for Wyloo, including a pre-emptive rights deal it renegotiated with the Noront board that provided a lot of protection.
When BHP zoomed in on Noront right behind Wyloo, it was a vindication for Giacovazzi. Forrest could have walked away with a massive return but opted to stay and fight for Noront’s Eagle’s Nest nickel project and other assets in the Ring of Fire region, about 1200 kilometres north of Toronto.
“When BHP popped up we had held the investment for a few months and made $200 million to $250 million. So, we were singing from the hilltops,” Giacovazzi says. “It would have been really easy to take that and walk away. We went to Andrew and we were smiling. Andrew said, ‘OK, guys, but why did we do the deal originally?’ ”
Giacovazzi reiterated his belief that Eagle’s Nest is one of the best nickel projects in the world and in a great minerals basin with multi-mine potential.
A sweetheart deal?
What followed through 2021 was a bidding war before BHP eventually gave up when Wyloo refused to back down. The tussle involved Wyloo going public with an unfriendly takeover offer and copping a blast from the Noront board, which accused Wyloo of making misleading statements. Giacovazzi makes no apologies for the way Wyloo went about winning.“The Noront board at the time really wanted BHP to be part of the story … so they were definitely against us,” he says. “It got to the point where we felt like the deal that BHP were trying to do with the board, I don’t want to call it a sweetheart deal, but it was.
“It was something that wasn’t reflective of value, and it was all just about the BHP brand, and that’s when we stepped forward.”
There’s no love lost between Fortescue Metals Group founder Forrest and iron ore heavyweight BHP, but Giacovazzi’s comments have a familiar ring.
In another battle over green metals, the board of copper miner OZ Minerals last month rejected an $8.3 billion takeover bid from BHP it said significantly undervalued the company. Giacovazzi finally nailed down the Noront acquisition in April on the same day he moved his young family into a rundown home with what turned out to be a leaky roof, but great architectural pedigree. It is the former home and design studio of Perth architect Iwan Iwanoff, with the purchase confirming Giacovazzi’s eye for neglected assets in need of some love.
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He’s shown a knack for finding them under the nose of mining majors rather than in the suburbs. The two-storey home built by Iwanoff in 1966 is a long way from its former brutalist glory, but Giacovazzi is relishing the restoration ahead after moving in with his audiologist wife, three-year-old daughter and infant son.Iwanoff did his best work in the downstairs studio but working from home is not for Giacovazzi. He probably wouldn’t have found his way to Tattarang in the first place if Credit Suisse hadn’t shut its Perth office. Credit Suisse said he could further work for them from home, but he’d tried that before and found it a “lonely path”.
He was hired by Tattarang chief investment officer John Hartman five years ago and, for a time, it was just the two of them doing a string of deals in property, in what became Squadron Energy, and in other assets classes, as the Forrest family looked to create a spread of investments with the riches flowing from iron ore. The team of two had to roll their sleeves up on all sorts of tasks. Giacovazzi hadn’t been there long when a septic tank burst at a caravan park on the West Australian coast owned by Tattarang. He was sent to the park to sort out the mess.
It has been a rapid rise for Johannesburg-raised Giacovazzi, who arrived in Australia armed with a degree in management after scholarship stints at the University of Sydney and the London School of Economics. He also spent a short time racing around Africa covering banking systems for a stockbroking firm while waiting for his visa.
Mincor worth $1b
“I sort of count my lucky stars because we (Giacovazzi and his wife) applied with degrees, zero work experience, zero money, nothing to take with us, and somehow we got the visa within six months,” he says. The deals have kept coming for Wyloo ever since Hartman and Giacovazzi sat down and pondered what to do with Squadron Resources, a Forrest entity that owned stakes in Poseidon Nickel, uranium play Vimy Resources, some exploration tenements and not much else.They had made multiple investments in diversifying Tattarang but never any in mining, and everyone from Forrest down saw the potential in battery metals. That first big pitch Giacovazzi made to Forrest was not about Noront but Mincor Resources. Wyloo started investing when Mincor was a $40 million company and retains its stake now that Mincor is a $1 billion company. They saw it as a vehicle to putting the Kambalda nickel precinct – broken up by Western Mining years ago to help pay for Olympic Dam – back together again. Wyloo noted that BHP Nickel West still owned the Kambalda concentrator but Mincor had the dominant land package in the area and was doing well on the exploration front.
“It was a cheeky title [on the slide pack] now that I look back on it,” Giacovazzi says. “I gave him the story around nickel sulphide and why it’s important and how it’ll have a cost advantage over laterites. And that was a hard sell because Andrew had done Anaconda and was a big believer in laterites.”
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In a short space of time, Wyloo has done a takeover (Noront), established long-term shareholdings in companies, and inserted itself into takeover deals. In the case of rare earths play Hastings Technology Metals, Wyloo this month committed $150 million in convertible notes to allow Hastings to buy a stake in Canadian magnet maker Neo Performance Materials, “How many times have you seen private equity fund another company to buy a stake in another company because it looks interesting to put the two together?” Giacovazzi says.“I don’t think there’s anyone else in the market that could do something like that.” Forrest says that Wyloo has put together a portfolio of exploration assets and can move quickly into production and make a major contribution to the critical minerals industry. “Luca is one of the sharpest analysts and quickest learners in the corporate sector that I have witnessed,” he says. Wyloo thrust itself into the fray when IGO sought to acquire nickel miner Western Areas in a move that also has consequences for BHP’s Nickel West growth plans.
Wyloo bought Western Areas shares on market at prices that were higher than the IGO offer price, fuelling expectations of a rival bid and forcing IGO’s decision to raise its offer by 15 per cent. It then agreed to support IGO’s takeover bid after striking a deal whereby if IGO builds a nickel sulphate plant, it would be as part of a joint venture with Wyloo.
In the past week, Wyloo put itself front and centre in another potential takeover stoush by becoming the biggest shareholder in Greatland Gold, an explorer that is being closely watched by Newcrest after discovering the Havieron gold and copper deposit in WA’s Paterson Province. The Forrest vehicle’s ambitions in rare earths stretch from mining to making permanent magnets, as shown by the Hastings deal, and in nickel sulphide in WA and Canada to making batteries.
Giacovazzi headed back to Ontario from Forrest’s Perth base while the ink was drying on the $60 million deal for 8.6 percent of London-listed Greatland. A major stumbling block to development of the Ring of Fire in the past, and one of the reasons Cliffs Natural Resources gave up ground picked up by Noront, has been the need for a 300-kilometre access road or rail link. Two First Nations groups, Marten Falls and Webequie, have emerged as road-building proponents and are supportive of mine development.
Giacovazzi says Cliffs, which pushed for a rail link after being drawn to the region by the chrome resources, made the mistake of not consulting properly with First Nations and other stakeholders. “They really didn’t have support for what they were proposing,” he says. “People forget that Cliffs had spent $300 million in the Ring of Fire and Noront spent nearly $200 million drilling and making discoveries.
“I think there are six defined ore bodies up there, of which we control five. Eagle’s Nest is the first one. It’s the most advanced of all the ore bodies and also the richest and the best. “Then there’s a tremendously big chrome opportunity. Most of the world’s chrome currently comes out of South Africa and is smelted in China.” Wyloo also sees potential for a copper-zinc mine at the Nikka deposit.
“If Nikka keeps growing, it will probably be Eagle’s Nest, Nikka and then the chrome,” says Giacovazzi. The focus right now is on the infrastructure needed to support any mines but Wyloo is already fielding inquiries from car companies trying to secure minerals.
There appears a chance Wyloo and one or more car companies could become partners in the mine development. Henry Ford tried something similar with rubber plantations as he looked to secure supply a century ago, but ultimately failed. “If a car company came to us and said we want to sign up all your off-take and here’s a pile of money, I don’t think that’s interesting to us,” says Giacovazzi. “I think it’s OK let’s put the money aside and what else could we be doing potentially together as partners, and we help you, and you help us. That’s where our conversations are kind of heading.”
# END
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Yes indeed Garpal Gumnut, 100% true that. rcw1 been following HAS for sometime now. $0.20 to $4.30 ... overnight. Research aplenty with this one. rcw1 has traded. Not Holding.
Have a very nice Sunday.
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Good morning
Published today through News Corp Media is 20/09/22:
Adam Creighton
Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest has promised to completely remove fossil fuels from Fortescue’s production by 2030, as part of a company-wide “decarbonisation strategy” to shift to 100 per cent “green iron ore”.
The Perth-based iron ore exporter, of which Mr Forrest is a one third shareholder, will spend US$6.2bn to slash its operating costs by US$818bn per year by 2030, the company said in an announcement to the stock exchange on Tuesday.
“We must accelerate our transition to the post fossil fuel era, driving global scale industrial change as climate change continues to worsen,” Fortescue executive chairman Mr Forrest, an outspoken advocate for combating climate change, said in a statement to the stock exchange.
“There’s no doubt that the energy landscape has changed dramatically over the past two years and this change has accelerated since Russia invaded Ukraine”
Mr Forrest timed the announcement with a visit to New York City, where he is participating in the United Nations General Assembly events.
Fortescue said the plan emerged at the invitation of President Joe Biden’s First Movers Coalition, which Fortescue joined as one of 25 founding (and the only Australian) members in November last year.
The plan, once fully implemented, would dispense with around 3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, through the displacement of around 700 million litre of diesel and 15 million GJ of gas, the company said.
“Fortescue is moving at speed to transition into a global green metals, minerals energy and technology company, capable of delivering not just green iron ore but also the minerals, knowledge and technology critical to the energy transition,” Mr Forrest said.
Mr Forrest, who has lauded Australia’s opportunity to become the “Saudi Arabia of green energy”, praised Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which includes billions in subsidies for renewable energy developments in the US.
Published today through News Corp Media is 20/09/22:
Fortescue to decarbonise by 2030: Twiggy
Adam Creighton
Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest has promised to completely remove fossil fuels from Fortescue’s production by 2030, as part of a company-wide “decarbonisation strategy” to shift to 100 per cent “green iron ore”.
The Perth-based iron ore exporter, of which Mr Forrest is a one third shareholder, will spend US$6.2bn to slash its operating costs by US$818bn per year by 2030, the company said in an announcement to the stock exchange on Tuesday.
“We must accelerate our transition to the post fossil fuel era, driving global scale industrial change as climate change continues to worsen,” Fortescue executive chairman Mr Forrest, an outspoken advocate for combating climate change, said in a statement to the stock exchange.
“There’s no doubt that the energy landscape has changed dramatically over the past two years and this change has accelerated since Russia invaded Ukraine”
Mr Forrest timed the announcement with a visit to New York City, where he is participating in the United Nations General Assembly events.
Fortescue said the plan emerged at the invitation of President Joe Biden’s First Movers Coalition, which Fortescue joined as one of 25 founding (and the only Australian) members in November last year.
The plan, once fully implemented, would dispense with around 3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, through the displacement of around 700 million litre of diesel and 15 million GJ of gas, the company said.
“Fortescue is moving at speed to transition into a global green metals, minerals energy and technology company, capable of delivering not just green iron ore but also the minerals, knowledge and technology critical to the energy transition,” Mr Forrest said.
Mr Forrest, who has lauded Australia’s opportunity to become the “Saudi Arabia of green energy”, praised Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which includes billions in subsidies for renewable energy developments in the US.
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As long as they find woke customers to buy their greenwash steel..it would also make sense to get the smelters as well and produce the green (issh) final product.
The exchange rate has gotten worse 1 USD to 1.54 AUD.. I changed my plans and purchased 25% at $10.50 USD which was executed. I have orders in for another 25% at $10.25 USD... and will purchase the remaining 50% in 25% increments at $10.00 USD and $9.75 USD.... If it goes lower...
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yep greenwash ( the new term for hogwash ) is about right
brought to your by NWS who has slaughtered billions of trees to publish the garbage they sell ( and that is just in MY lifetime ) , presented at the UN the ever-deepening money-pit that dreams of micro-managing the world ( through it's various appendages ) but does stuff all to reduce it's own carbon footprint ( how is that 'world peace ' going that was your original mission )
wait until Twiggy works out it is all just a global tax scam ( the more money you make , the more tax you pay , to reduce the guilt of being productive )
so how much of this 'green steel ' will be made into NATO main-battle tanks so they can encircle the world
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It’s actually not just about the environment, the fossil fuel savings based on $1/Litre diesel are going to be about $800 Million per year.
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saving fuel costs is one thing , running around the world spinning a sales pitch is another
customers want steel/iron ore at a fair price , shareholders want a well-run business
if Twiggy needs to travel , India and Pakistan would welcome a solid commodity supplier because i see Chinese growth moderating
customers want steel/iron ore at a fair price , shareholders want a well-run business
if Twiggy needs to travel , India and Pakistan would welcome a solid commodity supplier because i see Chinese growth moderating
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If using solar and wind power reduce our operating expenses, it’s means FMG’s cost per tonne is lower, in general the lower the average production costs are across the market the lower the commodity price will be.
So I am sure our iron ore customers welcome anything that helps reduce the costs of producers.
As for twiggy travelling round the world, that is about locking in future projects to produce green fuels, which is a very large potential growth area for FMG.
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my little adventure isn't doing so well to save the planet , they are still trying to work out how to fix the roof after the panel replacements and the cluster-clown show of electricians/technicians ( and other time-wasters )
now Twiggy might be smarter at NOT put his panels on top of buildings , but the savings aren't all they were alleged to be
i reckon the entourage of tradies' utes and SUVs have wasted to last 5 years worth of 'planet-saving ' .. and another array started having issues so just sold the house ( should be a block of units soon )
but we will see starting to look like Europe can't afford a postage stamp let alone clean fuel
now Twiggy might be smarter at NOT put his panels on top of buildings , but the savings aren't all they were alleged to be
i reckon the entourage of tradies' utes and SUVs have wasted to last 5 years worth of 'planet-saving ' .. and another array started having issues so just sold the house ( should be a block of units soon )
but we will see starting to look like Europe can't afford a postage stamp let alone clean fuel
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I was in Canada last month sorting out some family business. Then surprise, surprise I picked up a copy of the GlobeandMail and saw that Twiggy was in Maple leaf land spruiking his grand Hydrogen vision. I found a copy of the (lengthy) article on another investment forum and attached a link. (The Globeandmail story is behind a paywall)
It is a big and clever sell which the writer has neatly spiked. Twiggy has sold his dream in 36 countries around the world. He is the type of successful, big business visionary which many governments would love to snare - but he will ask a big price to play. By opening discussions with so many countries Twiggy is effectively creating a competitive bidding war for inviting FMG/FFI to establish some of its proposed massive renewable energy/hydrogen production plants in their country
The pitch for Canada is using some of the surplus hydro power from their huge plants to create cheap hydrogen and use it for industrial plants, ammonia and green steel. His team took the FMG ideas across the country from Prince George to Newfoundland and Labradour to the North West Territories. Each area was individually appraised and lobbied .
Twiggy trick is creating the market, the supply and being the first huge industrial user of green hydrogen. He is signing up customers for millions of tons of green hydrogen to be delivered by 2030. Then he turns around and creates a number of operations both locally and OS to create the green hydrogen to meet that demand. And in the middle of the process FMG itself becomes the first massive industrial enterprise to use the green hydrogen it produces to mine, transport and transform its iron ore effectively proving the commercial and environmental value of green hydrogen. Neat trick..
Another interesting observation in the article is pointing out how Twiggy is no hurry to finalise hydrogen electrolyser technologies. He seems keenly aware that radical improvements are being made yearly in electrolysers and that innovation and a little patience will reduce costs substantially. I think in the same vein Twiggy will be looking at the latest improvements in solar and wind technologies for his operations. And in a number of cases he will have bought the companies that own the technology
IMV well worth a read as an insight into Twiggys strategies.
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It is a big and clever sell which the writer has neatly spiked. Twiggy has sold his dream in 36 countries around the world. He is the type of successful, big business visionary which many governments would love to snare - but he will ask a big price to play. By opening discussions with so many countries Twiggy is effectively creating a competitive bidding war for inviting FMG/FFI to establish some of its proposed massive renewable energy/hydrogen production plants in their country
The pitch for Canada is using some of the surplus hydro power from their huge plants to create cheap hydrogen and use it for industrial plants, ammonia and green steel. His team took the FMG ideas across the country from Prince George to Newfoundland and Labradour to the North West Territories. Each area was individually appraised and lobbied .
Twiggy trick is creating the market, the supply and being the first huge industrial user of green hydrogen. He is signing up customers for millions of tons of green hydrogen to be delivered by 2030. Then he turns around and creates a number of operations both locally and OS to create the green hydrogen to meet that demand. And in the middle of the process FMG itself becomes the first massive industrial enterprise to use the green hydrogen it produces to mine, transport and transform its iron ore effectively proving the commercial and environmental value of green hydrogen. Neat trick..
Another interesting observation in the article is pointing out how Twiggy is no hurry to finalise hydrogen electrolyser technologies. He seems keenly aware that radical improvements are being made yearly in electrolysers and that innovation and a little patience will reduce costs substantially. I think in the same vein Twiggy will be looking at the latest improvements in solar and wind technologies for his operations. And in a number of cases he will have bought the companies that own the technology
IMV well worth a read as an insight into Twiggys strategies.
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After reading this article in the AFR today https://www.afr.com/companies/energ...make-the-sun-shine-after-dark-20220922-p5bk2x there must be something to this.
The company in the article is trying to store daytime solar for resale at more lucrative nighttime prices.
But what if you can just ignore selling it back to the grid and convert it to hydrogen and use it in industrial process?
What was oversupplied dreck becomes valuable industrial (sovereignty, supply chain independence, etc) gold.
I had no idea that toilet paper production was so energy intensive until I heard about this German TP manufacturer eating it from high gas prices.
Australia is a sunny country. With the right vision we could be a bastion of industrial science, have sovereign primary industry/manufacturing/energy production processes. When it comes to this topic I am full on nationalist.
