RE:RE:News ReleasesNice. I see from the new pit profile that all the deep drilling done by Cliffs was useful after all. The 2018 pit is deeper than the 2013 pit and contains a lot more of the "Red" colored high grade material. This, plus the pessimistic recovery and payability parameters used by Cliffs in the 2013 PEA make me wonder if Cliff's intentially low-balled the numbers for the Baptiste MIne.
I've seen big companies do this before in an attempt to screw their small JV partners. Agnico-Eagle is doing the same thiong to BME at Barsele in Sweden. The latest RE estimate there is about 1.6M oz gold while the "internal" figure is well north of 4M oz.
Glad that Cliffs is out of the picture. But I doubt that FPX stock will run much until the placement is finished. So there might still be a bit of time to pick up more.