RE:QuestionI'm with Chaney and taking the Buffett approach. I've been in since 2013, like Krams and others, and I do think this is a great long term investment. Their balance sheet was crazy risky in those early years, but now it looks great. By the end of 2018 they will have a substantial amount of cash on hand and very controllable debt. When the zinc market cycles back to 1.10 (an educated guess), they will be positioned to get great bankrupt properties from small tier companies. There are some companies with good properties that are financing now to get things going (PEA, permits, development, commissioning) or financing just to maintain drilling. When the market goes bear many of these companies will be toast and trevali will be able to pick up nice properties with $200 million cash (give or take). Trevali planned well with financing years before this bull market (it was a huge risk!). If trevali was where they were three years ago, now, they'd be toast in a couple of years. I thought they might be toast 2-3 times in the early stages, but the zinc price and enough production carried them through some tough years.
Personally, I'd like to see them diversify a bit in the next few years. I think it would be great if they could get some minds that were heavier in other precious metals. I still think it would be great if they would get listed on a legit US exchange.
In conclusion, if you're going to invest in Trevali you should make it a long play. Sure there are going to be big swings in it's share price at times, but they're now well positioned for the long play. Even Cruz on the conference call suggested that any new mine development wouldn't be in production unitl 2025.