Self-Funding Gold Story : ECR Minerals Strong Balance Sheet plus Licence Progress Set the Stage
“…We raised one and a half million pounds at the start of the year. We have Raglan and then Blue Mountain later in the year coming into production. Those projects will advance the company’s cashflow…”
Much has happened to ECR Minerals in the two years since Nick Tulloch was asked to be Chairman of the Australia-focused gold exploration and development company.
The main difference now is the ‘very strong balance sheet’ that allows the business to investigate several of its properties concurrently with the flagship asset Blue Mountain on course for first production this year.
The company has applied for a mining licence, and because the project is relatively low depth, vegetation and wildlife-friendly and doesn’t disturb native titles, Tulloch doesn’t anticipate there will be any challenges to the licence application.
Then there’s the alluvial gold project that is Raglan which Tulloch describes as turnkey as it came ready to go with licence, equipment and the energy that new management brought in 2023 which hasn’t dissipated some thirty months on.
“Raglan will be important to us in cash flow,” enthuses Tulloch who really means ‘us’ with his 2.94% shareholding. “It’s going to generate a very meaningful amount of cash flow for us. We believe it’s going to cover all of the G&A (general and administrative expenses) that ECR requires, even with the gold prices coming down a little bit in the last week or so. But I don’t believe that ECR will be made by Raglan. Raglan will give us that platform to really generate bigger projects.”
So if Raglan is the starting motor, what is going to sustain ECR? “Lolworth has that potential for the scale, for the multi-metal opportunity,” says Tulloch who says while Lolworth might contain much coveted rare earths, it’s the contained gold and silver that the company is focusing on. Lolworth is bigger than all of ECR’s tenements put together and at 900 square kilometres of project area it gives plenty of scope for future exploration.
As Nick explains to Sarah Lowther in this video interview. “We raised one and a half million pounds at the start of the year. We have Raglan and then Blue Mountain later in the year coming into production. Those projects will advance the company’s cashflow. They will in time be able to fund all of the exploration work we intend to undertake. The objective has to become self-sustaining.”
“Going forward, ECR should be viewed on what is our goal production, what is our cash flow. That’s the type of company we’re seeking to become. If people can see it with Raglan now, they’ll see it with Blue Mountain going forward. The objective in places like Lolworth and also the Victoria tenements is to do the same.”
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The author was remunerated but does not hold shares in the company
