RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Gold Going Up Don't mean to pick on JR, but in my view, it's not simply the delays, which can happen due to unforeseen events or a change of plans re. a better route to go after re-examining their intital strategy or during talks with a potential partner. It's also past statements he's made to the investment community that I find were misleading at best.
1) When asked during the Crux Interview on October 17 how much cash on hand TLG had, JR replied that at the end of the previous quarter they had approximately $30M, and they now have about half that (implying around $15M). However, in TLG's financial statements dated at the end of that same month (October 31), the Balance Sheet showed Cash and Cash Equivalents at $1.2M, Amounts Receivable at $750k, Investments at $4.1M, and Tax Credit Receivable at $11.5M. The "Investments" mainly consist of shares in Sayona Mining (plus a modest amount of options and warrants), the total value of which dropped from $14M on July 31 to $4.1M on October 31. Assuming TLG wasn't interested in selling these investments, the actual "cash on hand" anyone could reasonably claim as at October 31 is around $2M. If JR was including the ancticipated Tax Credit in the $15M total (which I suspect he was), it's very misleading IMO to claim that a Tax Credit the company expects to receive at some point in the future is the same as cash they have on hand and ready to be used now. Adding insult to injury, TLG then initiated that infamous $15M Bought Deal Offering at $0.35 per unit and $0.42 per flow-through share just two weeks after the Crux interview (October 30)...ironically the same amount that JR claimed TLG had "on hand" two weeks before.
2) During his speech at the end of February, he stated that the FS will be out "imminently". However, TLG's own MD&A dated January 31 (one month before he gave that speech) states that the FS "....is expected to be completed by mid-calendar 2024". I suspect if an engineer told the CEO of a company at the end of February that he can expect a completed project proposal report "imminently", the CEO would take it to mean much sooner than "mid-calendar".
Thus, I'm happy to wait and see how things transpire re. the release of the FS and its contents, terms of a JV agreement if one is made, and the terms and progress on financing / contracting / permitting before making my investment decision.