RE: Nice recap E-mail from CIBC Wow!!...thanks Mattyboy for sharing this CIBC update on Allana!! you get post of the day award++this is much better than a News Release on drill results...imho...if this does not make you feel warm and fuzzy...turn up the heat!
From his mouth to their ears...to our eyes...we are told the countries...the likely companies...and the likely terms...and likely no one taking a run at us with a hostile bid before the end of the third quarter when we have our BFS completed and then "the company could be targeted in earnest after that".. a whole lot more coming our way between now and then. Anyone still wonder what he was doing in Asia 3 times in the last 12 months?....I dont. We now can put some names to those likely "strategics" that Farhad has been meeting with in Asia++ Never underestimate this man and his team...and I plan on remembering these names....One of them is likely to reappear come September of this year....hmmm
Sinofert Holdings, IFFCO, Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers and Coromandel International. The last three are "looking at potash acquisitions overseas and especially in Africa." Important to know just how many companies are going to produce potash in Africa anyways?? The list is short.
Allana Potash weighs partnerships on flagship Ethiopia project, has Confidentiality Agreements signed, CEO says. Allana Potash has confidentiality agreements signed with "potential strategic partners" interested in its Ethiopia project, CEO Farhad Abasov said.... is considering a possible joint venture partnership or offtake agreement - in which an end-user would secure a supply of eventual production at the Danakhil project - with parties in China and India. Discussions and negotiations are underway on the strategic partnership and a decision on incorporating a potential partner could come by the third quarter of 2012, when the company expects a feasibility study to be completed on the project, Abasov said. The company is an attractive target at this point in its development and could potentially be sold after it releases its feasibility study, an industry analyst said, as reports of that kind typically strengthen the value proposition for the company. Abasov said Allana was attractive and agreed the company could be targeted in earnest after that.
Allana Potash would be a very attractive target to major Chinese fertilizer makers such as Sinofert Holdings, State Development & Investment Corporation and Sino-Agri Holdings, a sector banker in China said. Sinofert is well aware of Allana Potash and has approached the company before, a Sinofert source said. Sinofert would hold off on a strategic investment in Allana Potash prior to a feasibility study on the Ethiopia asset, the source said.
Two sector bankers said. Large players such as IFFCO, Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers, Coromandel International, Zuari Industries, Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals are some of the largest potash importers and could be keen on acquiring mines, forming joint ventures or entering off-take deals, the first banker said.
This news service had earlier reported that IFFCO, Rashtriya Chemicals and Coromandel International are "looking at potash acquisitions overseas and especially in Africa."
Allana hired BNP Paribas in October 2011 to secure debt financing for the project, as previously reported by media sources. An updated NI43-101-compliant resource estimate is due on the site in this quarter, according to Abasov, and should prove up resources there.