PutsRye Florida Canyon has forward contracts to sell 150k oz or 2 years worth of production at $1276 and they can sell at spot if the price of gold is above $1276.
Alio San Francisco mine has puts for 15k oz per quarter of their production at $1250 for the rest of 2018. That protects most of their production regardless of how low gold goes this year.
It would come down to how well they ramp up production.
Rye produced 4,540 oz in March, which is getting close to 15k oz per quarter and would be a big increase from Q1 of 10.8k.
Alio is supposed to increase in grade as they get closer to the main ore body.
A lot of Alio shareholders have been complaining about Rye adding a lot of debt to Alio.
From their MDA as of March 31, 2018 they paid down US$5.2m of their debt to US$16.6m. In addition, the company has set aside an amount of US$4.5m so that US$12.1m of the credit facility remains outstanding and unfunded at the beginning of the second quarter 2018.
At the end of March 2018 Rye had $16m cash, mainly because they raised $20m during the quarter. When you apply the cash to the debt, Rye net debt is close to zero. That is hardly adding a lot of debt to the merger.
Rye Florida Canyon should be generating free cash if they produce 15k oz a quarter.