nowwhat2
2 years ago
Strategic Review Update - July 5 2022 https://alphaminresources.com/2022/07/05/alphamin-announces-record-quarterly-tin-production-q2-2022-ebitda-guidance-of-us66-5m-dividend-declared/
On 9 November 2021, the Company announced the initiation of a strategic review to explore alternatives such as fast-tracking the Companyβs expansion and life-of-mine extension potential, balance sheet restructuring including revenue prepayments and streaming, shareholder distributions or a corporate merger or sale transaction.
The Company wishes to update shareholders and other market participants on this initiative:
Exploration drilling doubled from Q4 2021 to a quarterly average of over 12,000 metres and delivered an additional 124,700t contained tin in inferred Resource and 21,400t contained tin in indicated Resource at Mpama South. In addition, multiple high-grade tin intercepts were reported from drilling at depth at Mpama North.
Mine development of the adjacent Mpama South deposit commenced, which is expected to increase annual contained tin production from the current 12,000tpa to ~20,000tpa, approximating 6.6% of the worldβs mined tin, effective FY2024.
Dividend distributions commenced in February 2022 (Final FY2021 dividend) and net cash increased from US$1m to US$138m during the 9 months ended June 2022. A strong balance sheet to support growth initiatives whilst achieving high dividend returns to shareholders is considered a robust value proposition.
The Company is of the opinion that global tin supply is likely to remain constrained for at least the next five years while demand for tin is expected to increase. In addition to the development of Mpama South, the Companyβs vision is to discover more tin deposits on its license areas with a view to deliver additional mine developments and incrementally increase tin supply into an expected widening market deficit.
At this point in time, the Company believes that an outright sale transaction would not deliver the future value it intends to unlock through ongoing resource development and production growth.
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JULY 26
Interim FY2022 Dividend Declared
On 5 July 2022, the Board resolved to declare an interim FY2022 cash dividend of CAD$0.03 per share on the common shares (approximately US$30m in the aggregate) (the βDividendβ). The Dividend will be payable on 5 August 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on 29 July 2022.
Dividend distributions will be considered semi-annually based on excess free cash after taking account of capital funding requirements, including for the new Mpama South expansion project.
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nowwhat2
3 years ago
With the electrification of everything, the demand for tin should remain strong.
The greater the tin concentration, the greater the solderβs tensile and shear strength.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solder
The first tin alloy used on a large scale was bronze, made of 1/8 tin and 7/8 copper,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin
Tin is unique among mineral commodities because of the complex agreements between producer countries and consumer countries dating back to 1921. Earlier agreements tended to be somewhat informal and led to the "First International Tin Agreement" in 1956, the first of a series that effectively collapsed in 1985. Through these agreements, the International Tin Council (ITC) had a considerable effect on tin prices. ITC supported the price of tin during periods of low prices by buying tin for its buffer stockpile and was able to restrain the price during periods of high prices by selling from the stockpile. This was an anti-free-market approach, designed to assure a sufficient flow of tin to consumer countries and a profit for producer countries. However, the buffer stockpile was not sufficiently large, and during most of those 29 years tin prices rose, sometimes sharply, especially from 1973 through 1980 when rampant inflation plagued many world economies
In 2018, just under half of all tin produced was used in solder.
March 7th
See also CUSN