Chilla
Regular
I cant agree.Australian Public company CEOs have a large amount of authority when backed by their Board who have the Shareholders delegated authority.
But it might not be presented in a way that it's AVZ suggestion or initiative. If DRC government or regulator requires or insists on a percentage relinquishment when transferring from PR to PE then this is not an A/EGM issue. It's not Dathcom/AVZ decision to make.
The value of the excluded part is also not proven, I.e not drilled and certified it can therefore not be valued and officially seen as giving half the company asset away.
In O&G that I'm familiar with, operators have to relinquish acreage knowing very well that more resources are in the original exploration permit but without drilling and proving it they cannot hang on to it.
Unfortunately past experience with Klaus makes one think that he and his DRC and Chinese backers are more likely to screw us over than 'help'. If NF only found that out in May then indeed, many many questions to answer
AVZ have stated PR13359 has a target resource of 1.5-2.0 Billion Tonnes. That means the Northern section according to AVZ has just as much resource expectation as the southern section and in their own words have announced CDL is likely a bigger pegmatite than RD. Just because they havent poked as many holes in it to define like they have RD....doesnt mean it holds less future value than RD does. Therefore it remains a significant asset of the company and the BoD are not allowed to dispose of significant assets without gaining shareholder approval to do so.
Likewise if it is illegally taken from AVZ...then the BoD have a duty to shareholders to take all legal means available to them to recover it.
Reading the AJN announcements...it would appear AJN were pursuing the Manono project at least as early between 8 Feb 2022 and 19 April 2022 if not earlier and Nige was a Director at this time.