RE:AGG has 3.1m oz and $20m market cap! For it to be valid, a comparison must not be limited to the quantity of mineral resources.
For the next few years, ROS will have to invest a lot of money to turn its indicated resources into reserves. While specified category resources may suffice when the plant is already in operation, this is not the case for all other situations.
Whether it is to sell a project, finance a mine, merge with a partner, obtain an exploitation permit, develop a PFS, ... these mineral resources must be transferred to the category of reserves. ROS will have to continue to issue shares to finance this work, for the sole purpose of improving the quality of the estimates, without adding mineral resources. Most gold exploration companies are confronted with this phenomenon and it is the shareholders already in place who pay the big price.
ROS is no different from the others and will be confronted with the same problems, namely increasingly expensive financing and for which the positive consequences are less than the negative consequences resulting from the dilution of the shareholders.
Without wishing to denigrate this project, only exceptional projects do well and Kandiole is not one of those. For example, Bankan from Predictive Discovery is one of them, as well as Kiniero/Mansounia, whose finalization of the sale to Robex will be concluded in the coming days. These are 2 projects of 3,500,000 ounces of which that of Predictive Discovery is composed of mineral resources in the least reliable category (inferred) while that of Robex contains 2,000,000 ounces of gold in the indicated category and 1,500,000 in the inferred category. The price paid by Robex is similar to the market capitalization of ROS, in addition to including 3 exploitation permits, 2 exploration permits, 1 functional airstrip, a partially built factory, ... and 3 times more mineral resources of similar gold grade.
All of these projects are at different stages and the sole purpose of the comparison is to better assess the risks associated with the Kandiole project. The comparison made by zzstocks70 highlights the overly generous evaluation of ROS, in consideration of the problems encountered by AGG during the development of its Kobada project. The approximate valuation of $20,000,000 of African Gold Group is (IMHO) linked to the fact that the quality of the project does not allow financing a factory without a reputable partner, just as it is unable to sell this project at a suitable price, for want of to be the best project. Considering the maximum of parameters, AGG is relatively well valued while the value of ROS is still very exaggerated, considering the number of outstanding shares.