After purchasing the minority interest, Teck improved the FS and flipped a portion over to Sumitomo.
If we want to compare apples with apples, the new reserve case after-tax NPV (8%) with copper at $3.00 US is $2.0B US.
Full after-tax NAV value for 30% would be $600M US, but Sumitomo paid $1.2B US. That's almost 200% of the after-tax NAV (8%) value. Why? In a way, they are almost getting a 100% carried interest to production, saving them over $1.4B US, but all this is still not as good as our JV terms.
Conclusions:
Assuming our new after-tax NAV (8%) value will be $400M US (with copper at $3.00 US), 200% would be $800M US.
If Copper Fox intends to not leave any money on the table, I don't see why the price tag could not be above $800M US as our JV agreement is in many ways superior than what Sumitomo got.
- We have milestone payments
- We have a 100% carried interest
- We don't need to pay 12% incremental for the next phases
- We have Liard Shares
IMO.
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