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Whoa! No thread already? I can't believe it.
AVA is a junior explorer with a main focus on coal. In WA and in South Africa. Chart-wise, it has been in a symmetric triangle and a breakout may have occurred today. One to watch peoples!!!
Hm yeah i noticed but strange, no news at all
It had veru low sell depth today it appears
thx
MS
I suspect it has a lot to do with two factors. To a lesser extent, Coal is one the 'darling' commodities at the moment. You only have to look at Coal in general to see this. Far more importantly, there was the WA explosion which affected major resource players; NCM, BHP, ALumina etc. But AVA's Coolimba power project will have a 400MW base load generator which has potential to supply power to these giants at lower costs. Personally, all up, I think it's potential is hugely undervalued. Time will tell.
Ok CDS continues to fly - mkt cap at 47 cps is $216m. This is based on an inferred 415 Mt thermal coal deposit (with metallurgical coking potential) in the Waterberg region of South Africa. TC to be sold to Eskom, coking coal to be exported.
AVA, at 91 cps, has a current mkt cap $115.5m less $22m cash for an EV of approx $95m. It's Mmamantswe deposit in Botswana has an inferred reserve of 1.3 billion tonne!! That is 3x CDS for half the market cap. It is currently drilling to get this upgraded to JORC indicated and to see if any of the coal can be upgraded to metallugical grade. It is in the south of Botswana, just across the border from the Waterberg region. What can I say - how can this make sense? Eskom has sent out a request for service to supply them with 6-12 Mt pa for 40 years.
AVA also has a 73 Mt coal deposit in WA to supply its proposed Coolimba power station, servicing the Mid West region in WA. This project is well progressed.
So why the lower cap for the bigger deposit c.f CDS? Is it because they will need to do a substantial cap raising to fund the power stations? Would like to know other peoples thoughts on this as maybe I am missing something here.
By the way, Botswana is one of the most stable and affluent country's in southern Africa. It has had a terrible AIDS tragedy but is is well run and potically stable.
Hey Bro, your spot on, to fund the Coolimba project they need about $1billion dollars, with the recent credit climate ....
Cheers mate. I think I read though that the WA state government is budgeting to open up the SWIS around Eneabba and is very keen on a diversifying energy supply away from only North West shelf gas. Maybe they would chip in.
$1b will be difficult to raise though.
African deposit is massive though - 1.3b tonne!! I know it is thermal but they stated it has BCI potential.
Ok on the watch list for the moment until there is clearer direction about Coolimba.
Is anyone watching this one?
Seems to have broken out on an announcement frm the WA governement about the go ahead of the 330kv line from Perth to Geraldton. Most think that this is the green light for their proposed power station at Coolimba, which will be backed by AES.
So I'm guessing the market is waiting for an announcement from Synergy, then it should be all systems go.
Nun,
Saw yer post. My, how intuitive you are - good work. What do you reckon, is Coolimba a done deal?
Of course nobody is focusing on the Botswanan project right now, but teh wheels are still turning there is te background I guess.
Cheers for the local insight. Feel free to share any other local parish gossip. Your source wouldn't be passing info from confession now whould they?
I know you nuns have their ways of extracting info from the clergy.
is anyone else holding this?
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