Potential Catalysts- Financing, Resource Expansion and Offtake Partners: As a result of the SQM JV, the company has enough funds to cover the mine and concentrator capital costs. So the company will only need to raise capital to cover refinery related expenses. They are estimating this amount to be 550m (or 275m for Kidman’s share of the expenses).
Upcoming milestones: Kidman is expecting to put out Definitive Feasibility Studies (DFS) for both the mine/concentrator and the refinery by the midpoint of 2018, start production in 2019, with the refinery going live in late 2020. Source: thelithiumspot.com/2017/12/21/thoughts-on-kidman-resources-presentation/
Expect Kidman Resource to continue to increase in share price in 2018 as it catches up to the MC of other peers like PLS and AJM
Upcoming Price Catalysts ----------------------------------- Further assay result from Earl Grey 1H2018 Deposit size upgrade 1H 2018 Off-take deal announcement. Near Term Define second deposit at Bounty area. 2H2018 Commence building of mine: December quarter 2018
Highlights --------------- * JV with No 1 lithium producer SQM * Fully funded to mine production * Deposit will likely double * No offtake agreements signed as yet * Clear takeover target
JORC Deposit -------------------- 128Mt at 1.44% Li20 for 4.54Mt LCE
Corporate Snapshot ------------------------------ Shares on issue: 350.14M Options on issue: 47.45M Cash (Sept 2017): AUD$6.23 million Debt : AUD$6.3 Million