Appreciate the insight, as always.Wow BEISH, a lot of questions and I was going to have the day off…. Anyway I’ll give you some of my reasoning
CMOC came into the equation when Felix and Julien decided to have discussions with both them and CATH together regarding building a battery manufacturing facility in Haut-Katanga recently and from memory they wanted it sorted by the time the DRC-AFRICA Battery Minerals event takes place in September
My opinion is that a Chinese company has to be involved given everything I have read on DRC - Chinese relations and mining. If CMOC.were to become involved, it wouldn’t be through the same nefarious avenue that Zijin took.
CMOC also has a partnership with Gecamines in the Tenke Fungurume copper cobalt mine and if you wanted to cast your imagination further you could even speculate that a partnership involving this combination would give the DRC what it wants which is a greater portion of ownership in the project, and also the possibilities of the project and infrastructure being built in a shorter timeframe, the CAPEX being shared, the DRC accepting this as a more favourable outcome than being sued in the ICSID and the project being held up even longer, and a shorter time frame to production including PLS and or li carbonate.
My view is, a shorter time to production and a PLS plant with less CAPEX for us would also see a much faster increase in our share price.
If a joint venture occurred, the ownership would be in Dathcom, not AVZ, and if AVZ remained majority shareholder in Dathcom we wouldn’t lose control in either.
In the above scenario, China and DRC have a stake in the project and if it were to happen, I would be pretty sure AVZ would have it legally water tight ahead of such an agreement as we now have the experience and benefit of hindsight.
CATH wouldn’t be keen on forking out all the money to build a battery manufacturing plant but they do want the lithium and CMOC have similar ambitions. There was a reason Sama Lukonde let CMOC get away with not being audited and why they have recently signed an agreement with Gecamines
Anyway I could write a whole chapter on this, it’s just my opinion and others might disagree.
Only other thing I have to say is keep an eye out for the lurkers and trolls here with nothing of value to add
You make very good points regards to CAPEX and shorter time frame to production.......and yes, China does need to be involved considering the " strategic relationship they have had with DRC for over 30yrs.
However, that being said TRUST is the missing element, its fucking important............water tight agreements mean nothing, AVZ already had water tight agreements pre ML decree, yet here we are.
Does NF / LTH have the ticker to go the journey to production given what has been transpired ?
Yes, i have alot of questions, who wouldnt ?
Sad to hear that LLL is in a suspended TH............DSO operations issues, what the fuck could that entail ?
Mali govt changing the goal post?
I certainly hope not for you and others invested...........thats the proverbial double whammy !!
Went to the HC LLL thread................infested with dirty grubs stating AVZ 2.0...............scum.
Grateful to be here and having rational debates with respect, you will always get the odd turd arriving here, the beauty of this forum is that those fuckers get exterminated rather quick.
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