AVZ Discussion 2022

[RHyNO]

Starting to feel like this will fall in our favour and we will have a deep chuckle. However would love to understand why the exec body just get to drain our accounts while not doing anything. If this were my business I’d step down all unnecessary execs until further notice.

 

[timb89]

Starting to feel like this will fall in our favour and we will have a deep chuckle. However would love to understand why the exec body just get to drain our accounts while not doing anything. If this were my business I’d step down all unnecessary execs until further notice.

Fair enough in terms on unnecessary execs. But i don't think its fair to categorise the team as doing nothing.

 

[dollarbills]

Nothing to worry about as China's economy is under pressure with many western companies exiting. It's just a matter of time before the so-called miracle economy faces complete failure then they face massive internal problems. Me thinks the CCP's will come under enormous pressure from their own people and hopefully spells its demise.

More chance the West will fail economically than China

 

[Carlos Danger]

Starting to feel like this will fall in our favour and we will have a deep chuckle. However would love to understand why the exec body just get to drain our accounts while not doing anything. If this were my business I’d step down all unnecessary execs until further notice.

We aren't paying the 'unnecessary execs' that much. 60k per year each for 2 employees to take pressure off the necessary execs is reasonable imo. The fat to be trimmed would be from Nigel, Graeme and Jan. I think deferring a portion of their 'consulting fees' until we are trading again or taken over is more than appropriate.

 

[Cumquat Cap]

Agreed, can't see how Graham earning his cash now considering he most likely hasn't gone back to DRC in a long time and is the technical director of a company who is fighting lawsuits for a living - just my thoughts and think he is more than valuable once we have a ML

 

[Cumquat Cap]

Nigel and John definitely earning their cash currently, but don't think cash will be an issue for too much longer

 

[Chilla]

Agreed, can't see how Graham earning his cash now considering he most likely hasn't gone back to DRC in a long time and is the technical director of a company who is fighting lawsuits for a living - just my thoughts and think he is more than valuable once we have a ML

Graeme is well worth the money....probably the sharpest on the BoD and will be earning his keep with the drilling results and upgrading the JORC resource, which will add significant shareholder value. Its good they didnt replace Huljich and have saved that expense so far.

 

[Doc]

After some of the effort a few have gone to last 12 months on here for research, id be happy to see you guys and gals get on the paid consultants list!

 

[geo_au]

Starting to feel like this will fall in our favour and we will have a deep chuckle. However would love to understand why the exec body just get to drain our accounts while not doing anything. If this were my business I’d step down all unnecessary execs until further notice.

When companies have downturns should they slash the wages of all employ

More chance the West will fail economically than China

More chance the West will fail economically than China

More chance the West will fail economically than China

You hope, but we will get through this downturn quicker than China

 

[JNRB]

Hi all,
While avz is my main play, I do follow a few other lithium companies too, with a small parcel in some (carn EMH!). Lately I've been thinking about European Lithium, who have signed a deal with a Saudi company for a 50/50 joint venture on a processing plant.

This post isn't meant to be a comparative analysis or anything, more just musing and speculation on how this as a reference point could hint at future possibilities for AVZ. EUR's contribution to the JV is basically feedstock, with he Saudis paying for the plant. The mine is in Austria, and like most others it's a teacup pig compared to Manono. Not exactly close to Saudi Arabia, and not exactly a world-class deposit. IMO the Saudi's aren't getting into this to support their car industry, they want to keep owning the energy industry. And I mean OWN it. So arrangements like the one they have with EMH is going to be how they go about it, I expect EUR is just the first of many deals to be done.

So my musings are twofold.
1 - What does this tell us about the sort of arrangement that AVZ might end up with, be it with China or someone else
2 - Is Saudi Arabia going to to get involved with Manono? I know it's been speculated about on here before, and they have had trade discussions with DRC. They got money like the Chinese, more 'flexible' on certain host country attributes than the USA, and need to build themselves new industries. Even if DRC still insisted on processing happening locally, if SA wants to control a lithium OPEC then they need control of manono, regardless of where the product gets processed.
IMO they could make a good 3rd party to balance out the Chinese.

I'm not in the weChat group, so don't know if anything related to SA is in the rumors circulating around there, this is just my own speculation.
(Also - don't begrudge them having a private chat alongside an anonymous public message board. People have varying degrees of both effort, involvement and exposure/risk here. And if someone accidentally says 'thank-you' on here instead, toughen the fuk up and ignore it. You are no worse off that someone else knows something that you don't)

So,
While I think probably China has their teeth sunk deep enough into manono/DRC that they will also eventually end up stumping up the cash to move it forwards, now that SA has started making moves I would not be surprised if they came out with an even bigger dump of cash to push China aside and get into the project. AVZ mines SA pays for the processing plant and China buys all the output? We'll see.

 

[wombat74]

Hi all,
While avz is my main play, I do follow a few other lithium companies too, with a small parcel in some (carn EMH!). Lately I've been thinking about European Lithium, who have signed a deal with a Saudi company for a 50/50 joint venture on a processing plant.

This post isn't meant to be a comparative analysis or anything, more just musing and speculation on how this as a reference point could hint at future possibilities for AVZ. EUR's contribution to the JV is basically feedstock, with he Saudis paying for the plant. The mine is in Austria, and like most others it's a teacup pig compared to Manono. Not exactly close to Saudi Arabia, and not exactly a world-class deposit. IMO the Saudi's aren't getting into this to support their car industry, they want to keep owning the energy industry. And I mean OWN it. So arrangements like the one they have with EMH is going to be how they go about it, I expect EUR is just the first of many deals to be done.

So my musings are twofold.
1 - What does this tell us about the sort of arrangement that AVZ might end up with, be it with China or someone else
2 - Is Saudi Arabia going to to get involved with Manono? I know it's been speculated about on here before, and they have had trade discussions with DRC. They got money like the Chinese, more 'flexible' on certain host country attributes than the USA, and need to build themselves new industries. Even if DRC still insisted on processing happening locally, if SA wants to control a lithium OPEC then they need control of manono, regardless of where the product gets processed.
IMO they could make a good 3rd party to balance out the Chinese.

I'm not in the weChat group, so don't know if anything related to SA is in the rumors circulating around there, this is just my own speculation.
(Also - don't begrudge them having a private chat alongside an anonymous public message board. People have varying degrees of both effort, involvement and exposure/risk here. And if someone accidentally says 'thank-you' on here instead, toughen the fuk up and ignore it. You are no worse off that someone else knows something that you don't)

So,
While I think probably China has their teeth sunk deep enough into manono/DRC that they will also eventually end up stumping up the cash to move it forwards, now that SA has started making moves I would not be surprised if they came out with an even bigger dump of cash to push China aside and get into the project. AVZ mines SA pays for the processing plant and China buys all the output? We'll see.

I'd be thinking the USofA before thinking Saudi .

 

[Lucas Don Velor]

Cominiere's balance sheet is becoming more clear with the efforts of Kiki... An itemised account of 'snacks' should reveal Focus Pleading and collusion...

Add extortion to Zijin's resume...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lithium?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#Lithium</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Manono?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#Manono</a><br>Le groupe Chinois <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZIJIN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#ZIJIN</a> avait IMPOSÉ dans une lettre à la <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COMINIERE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#COMINIERE</a> une coentreprise où elle aurait 71% et l&#39;État Congolais 29%.<a href="https://t.co/Mvar5ZEkdq">https://t.co/Mvar5ZEkdq</a></p>&mdash; Kiki Kienge (@KiengeKki) <a href="">August 1, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[RHyNO]

Fair enough in terms on unnecessary execs. But i don't think its fair to categorise the team as doing nothing.

The thing is what on earth could they be doing? What tasks are there for the mining experts when there is no mine? Not to diminish the BOD. But they are an expensive asset without any legal skills.

 

[Chilla]

The thing is what on earth could they be doing? What tasks are there for the mining experts when there is no mine? Not to diminish the BOD. But they are an expensive asset without any legal skills.

Surely you are just taking the piss now....right?????

 

[cruiser51]

Surely you are just taking the piss now....right?????

It's pretty obvious he has been consuming copious amounts of psilocybin over the weekend, lots of it.

 

[DiscoDanNZ]

The thing is what on earth could they be doing? What tasks are there for the mining experts when there is no mine? Not to diminish the BOD. But they are an expensive asset without any legal skills.

You make a good point, at this stage of mine development we should temporarily sack the board and replace them with a crack team of lawyers

 

[CHB]

You make a good point, at this stage of mine development we should temporarily sack the board and replace them with a crack team of lawyers

I know just the team

 

[Sparrowhawk12]

You make a good point, at this stage of mine development we should temporarily sack the board and replace them with a crack team of lawyers

I've dealt with corporate lawyers a bit. Best way to waste $10M's and years, esp. in AVZ's situation with DRC. Best experts for resolving in our favour are expert company managers, dealmakers. You can argue AVZ Execs' qualifications there, but don't even think of putting lawyers in charge of this. IMO & no offence to lawyers, everyone has their place, value to add. Br Sparrowhawk12

 

[The Fox]

More chance the West will fail economically than China

Really? That's interesting. What do you base that view of the world or comment on?

 

[9cardomaha]

I know just the team