Risks remain, but Dacian’s recovery plan highlights an abundance of leverage and upside after sell-off.
Newbie gold producer Dacian (DCN) served up some shock back in early June when it told the market that it should forget about its Mt Morgans operation being a 200,000 oz a year producer for 10 years at a cost of $A1,000 an oz.
Its June 5 stock price crashed from $1.58 to 51c, catching everyone in the market – and this space – on the hop.
To the credit of executive chairman and CEO Rohan Williams, Dacian has wasted no time getting back to the market with a five and an eight-year mine plan and a stated intention of not raising equity funds to see it through.
For those with memories of the 1968 classic kids film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, it’s a case of up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success. There are some if and buts though with the new mine plan.
The five-year plan is for 170,000oz a year at an all-in-cost of $A1,340-$A1,440 an oz. So given the current gold price in local dollar terms and the ability for some judicious hedging, forward margins of $A500 an oz or so says straight up that the June 5 sell down was overdone.
That’s particularly so when no one doubts what Dacian said is the “significant potential” to extend the 170,000oz annual rate out beyond five years.
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