Yep, the fact that this isn't being shouted from the hilltops...

Yep, the fact that this isn't being shouted from the hilltops absolutely blows my mind.

Takeover prevention, intellectual property protection, stifling the SP to enable an easy equity raise, bumbling management - it has all been thrown around and could well be an amalgam of all but the penny has to drop soon. 

For a bit of trivia, 4 years ago an executive of a major Australian mining company told me that this project would never be funded, and 6 months ago I was starting to agree with him. Let's hope the SMS/KfW relationship proves to be the one defining factor that naysayers neglected to consider. 

2019 is going to be an interesting year.