RE:RE:RE:RE:My Consolidation Decision.You know Martyboss, it may be that the last financing was the only one available, from where that last money came from. Every investor or group may have some limits, as to how much they have available to spend, on any one project. So if this is the case, then Rockcliff may now be in some kind of financial bind, if they cannot find any additional funding, even at these, very cheap levels of price.
I personally have too much invested money to risk losing it. So in the end I will gladly accept some roll back in order to achieve some additional cash for the company, if that is what it takes.
You are right. They have burned through a lot of cash!
In the recent past, Rockcliff had high hopes that they might be able to finance the refurbishing of the old nickel mill just up the road from Talbot and Tower. Tower is sitting just next to the highway.
But upgrades cost money and Hudbay kiboshed that attempt when they chose to become the operator at Talbot. It was obvious that Alistair Ross was deeply disappointed when he got that news. It was apparent to all that the mill could not be upgraded without the additional ore from Talbot.
Rockcliff was amiss in the original Talbot joint venture deal by not insisting that the operator of that mining project, construct that mine, in a timely fashion. Tragically, that meant no cash flow for the company for perhaps, another decade to come.
Hudbay may be cheap, but they are not stupid! They out-smarted Ken unless that was the only deal that he could strike. Perhaps, at that time, this didn't matter to a CEO with a guaranteed salary. If so, hopefully now things are different.
What surprises me is that they actually might have believed that Hudbay would let them become the operator of the Talbot project. The knowledge that the Talbot deposit could have a significant massive resource deeply buried below the surface was open source and anyone could access that information by simply reading the Talbot technical report.
Rockcliff may not have drilled that deep 1 km wide plate in the hope that no one would be the wiser, since no major discovery had been revealed there.
But this thought strikes me as incredibly naive, if that is what the company's management actually believed. Clearly, Hudbay knew exactly what that geophysical anomaly might represent. And now they are going to just sit on that deposit, as long as they like.
It may even make them extremely pleased to see Rockcliff's management and shareholder base squirm in dismay, the longer it takes! At least, they seem to care less. They could argue that it is simply a good business practice, if they were actually willing to open any debate on the matter.
In any event, my hope is that the company may be ready to make a deal to mine, at least one of their deposits. Perhaps they should sacrifice, at least a part of their least valuable one, if only to get some mining, actually started!
No mine in Snow Lake, equals, little investor interest!
Hudbay doesn't need any more smaller deposits for years. They have many of these kind of their own deposits, yet to mine.
They are even talking about re-milling their tailings of all things, just because of they may possibly have some valuable gold content that was previously discarded, as worthless. They have spent millions on upgraded their New Britannia mine and now, it is payback time!
Imagine, even their garbage, now offers them value! Why do they need Rockcliff?
Rockcliff keeps on drilling, knowing all of this!
They need to start a mine without the assistance of Hudbay.
If it is a matter of a larger scale to convince a different miner or mining operator, to help get some mining operation underway, then it is my greatest hope that they will find something of significance in this new Winter drilling program.
If not then the drilling could become endless.
The 3.5 cent asks have been taken out again today. I hope that this continues. We do need a 4 cent share price and soon! That's how to avoid roll backs. We need to have steady, share price increases, prior to consolidation day!
I still remain, a little hopeful!
All the best! Java