MinRes Bounces but Pressure Persists

Bellevue beaten up as investors flee

The Pre-Start

  • Bellevue tanks 25% on open…

  • It’s straight to the balance sheet with Min Res who are up 5% on open: net debt of US$4.4B including $0.9B cash at 30 June (MIN) And they entered a pre-payment to bring in US$0.4B, repayable FY26-28

    Min balance sheet

    Because repayments weren’t stretched enough then…

  • Burgundy sold 1.03m carats, achieving EBITDA of US$26m, though net debt decreased to US$63m (BDM)

  • Develop cash is $41m, $36m debt drawn. Received $12m in directors’ options exercise. Continued Woodlawn funding discussion (DVP)

  • Metro shipped 1.42Mwmt, though 2024 shipment guidance was downgraded to 6.2Mwmt. Operational challenges led to lower than-expected EBITDA margins ($5/wmt) (MMI)

  • Bannerman finished FY24 with $24m and has since received tranched 1 ($75m) of its recent placement. FID this half-year (BMN)

  • MetalsX saw 2.5kt tin in concentrate produced in the quarter from Renison, adding $14 million to its now $182m cash pile (MLX) disappointingly only $374k used in the buyback to date and the company is now talking about buying ‘base metal and gold’ opportunities 🤦

  • Lake Resources saw 3 directors resign with immediate effect (LKE)

  • Centaurus closed the quarter with $25m cash to support pre-development activities through to FID at Jaguar in Brazil (CTM)

  • Cyprium has entered a commercial partnership with Glencore, the commodity trader will get 100% of new mine offtake and supply of sulphuric acid (cop that, Lynas) and Cyprium gets a A$20m prepayment facility (CYM)

High Grade It

  • Jundee miss takes shine off Northern Star’s golden year (West)

  • Anglo is facing headwinds in its restructuring as it cuts De Beers’ outlook, struggles at Grosvenor and impairs Woodsmith (Bloomberg) Hobbsy was all over it months ago

  • Anglo American is unlikely to restart mining at Queensland’s troubled Grosvenor coking coal mine before selling it (AFR)

  • Paladin's arrival in Canada marks the first time since 2022 that a large foreign mining company will list its shares on the TSX (Bloomberg)

  • FMG said the cost of mining iron ore in WA could rise by almost 10% in the next year, a sign the industry’s inflation woes are not over (AFR)

  • Cash-hungry Canadian miners test a grey area of anti-China M&A rules, waiting to see how the government reacts (Bloomberg)

  • Northern Star MD Stuart Tonkin has predicted an end to labour cost pressures in the resources sector (AFR) Either FMG or NST are wrong

  • Copper tumbled — falling below the US$9kt threshold for the first time since early April — on a pessimistic global/chinese outlook (Bloomberg)

  • Mexico’s mining investments down on stricter regulations (MiningNews)

  • Oil prices fell on mixed demand signals a day after large draws on U.S. inventories while consumption in China remains lacklustre (Reuters)

  • After repeated denials, Bellevue caught investors off guard by announcing its left-field capital raising (The Australian)

  • A coal miner who developed black lung due to his employers' negligence has been awarded a landmark legal victory (West)

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Wheelin’ n Dealin’

  • Rio Tinto, BYD and LG Energy show interest in Chile's Altoandinos lithium site (Reuters)

  • Dynamic Group Holdings is the subject of a rare on-market takeover from Australian Meat Industry Superannuation (DDB) WTAF, a drill & blast company? Meat super? What alternative universe are we living in?

  • PNX Metals dispatched its Scheme booklet to shareholders for its tie up with Kin Mining, Scheme meeting to be held end of August (PNX)

Rattlin’ the Tin

  • Bellevue completed its $150m insto placement (BGL) Down big ~25% on the open, trading below $1.40

  • Talga is in trading halt pending a capital raise (TLG)

  • The second tranche of Black Cat’s $36m placement got approved by shareholders yesterday (BC8)

  • Lake Resources dipped their toes into their ATM facility for $2.5m (LKE)

  • Mercuria has transferred Jervois’ Finland working cap facility to the majority bondholder of ICO bonds (JRV)

Word on the Decline

  • Min Res’ conference call is at 9:30am Perth time this morning. These never fail to entertain (call link)

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In the Weeds

  • To give a feel for just how long Oyu Tolgoi has been getting into gear, here’s a 12-year-old video, with an obligatory Friedland appearance

  • China's run of robust thermal coal imports may ease (Reuters op-ed)

  • Macquarie had its worst day in 5 months as dealmaking appeared slow to gather pace while the commodities division uptick (Bloomberg)

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Last month, African gold developer Predictive put forward a polarising resolution in their NoM. Chuckie describes the situation succinctly here.

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