I have no mining expertise, so yes very surprisingly it is pretty much in line with my eyeball expectations (which on reflection I had thought was pretty optimistic).
I like the idea that there might be more to come, and via a pit extension.
Year by year we are adding pretty substantial resources, 20% in this instance. At this rate we could imho realistically get to say 8 million ounces of resources before startup, which would be pretty good imho.
This is an additional 300kOz for IGO. At say $50/oz that's $150mm, or 75 cps. As well as possibly adding that again next year, that $50/oz (my guess) should be growing too as that new resource moves year by year closer to production. A reason to really like assets at the stage at which Tropicana is with value add both asset maturity and from asset growth.
Of course the market doesn't agree, I guess that's nickel sentiment, plus zinc indigestion.
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IGO Price at posting:
$4.36 Sentiment: LT Buy Disclosure: Held