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Pensana Rare Earths

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby skewwy » April 21st, 2021, 10:44 am

Across yesterday and today there were a large number of sales, all around £30-50k, all similar round numbers so looks like a lot of 'sell on news' activity from traders possibly. It has stabilised now around 7% down.

Consensus seems to be that the RNS 'merely' had numbers that were in line with expectations. So although it de risks investors it was to some extent priced in.
It will probably be financing that will now move the share. The RNS also talks about Angola (via their wealth fund) increasing their interest/holding. I suspect not all see that as good news.

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » April 21st, 2021, 11:31 am

I think share price fall will be short term as the brokers charged with targeting the institutions (Liberum) will start to do their business. I'm not sure if the Angolan Sovereign Wealth Fund wanting to increase their stake is good or bad. On reflection, I would prefer some major new institution as regulars will know I have some mistrust of African politics. Anyway, no hint of trouble so far and long may that continue. At the end of the day, it looks like there will be very little dilution for shareholders and the potential rewards are enormous.
I was glad that they made certain comparisons with Lynas and MP Materials, the thing is we have the ability to scale up relatively easily whereas the others may struggle. First things first, Pensana must now get digging at both Longonjo and Saltend. Plenty of news to come.

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » April 21st, 2021, 3:53 pm

https://ukinvestormagazine.co.uk/pensan ... he-future/

Pensana (LSE: PRE)

163p (160p- 165p)

Mkt Cap: £142m

Next Results: Y/e June est Oct

A World-Class Sustainable Supply of critical Rare Earths for the Green economy in Humber

The new economy needs electric vehicles and wind turbines and these and other strategic green economy industries need tonnes of permanent magnets. Pensana are developing a rare earth mine in Angola, which has an estimated 20 years plus mine life with an annual production of 12,500 tonnes of rare earth oxides. This includes 4,500 tonnes of strategically critical magnet metal rare earth oxides, which is forecast to be 5% of the projected world demand in 2025.

Today Pensana announced its Mine to Market Business Plan, to establish a rare earth separation facility in Saltend, Humber which will be the world’s first major separation facility established in over a decade and which would be one of only three major producers located outside China. The planned US$125m facility would create over 100 direct jobs in processing purified rare earth sulphates, which would be imported from the Company’s state-of-the-art Longonjo mine in Angola.

Once established this Mine to Market strategy will produce wallet expanding returns such as; a 2-year payback, a 57% IRR, a NPV ( Net Present Value) of $2.3billion and EBITDA of $359m per year. These are, however, projections and subject to funding. The plan does not, however envisage any funding issues; Saltend is already receiving grants from the UK Government’s £1 billion Automotive Transformation Fund, founded to support the national transition to electric vehicles. Pensana has already received indications of potential financial backing from its major shareholder, the Angolan Sovereign Wealth Fund, as well as approaches from a wide range of financial institutions..

Before the funding comes clearly into focus the current mkt cap of £145m will seem cheap at less than 8% of the NPV so the risk does seem to be missing the upside. A strategic Buy

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » April 26th, 2021, 10:40 am

https://treo.substack.com/

Well, for an alternative perspective see within the above link. This guy (from the Rare Earth Observer) really has it in for Pensana; from tax to radioactive thorium. Some interesting points that hopefully the Company will address at some stage including the absence of the feasibility study (really frustrating...).

The shareprice has languished since the "Business Plan" was released and I have to question why they delayed this just for the Saltend planning decision. We were on a roll and most of the content was ready in January.

I still hold all my shares in the expectation of a re-rating sometime soon. Cheers D1

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby spasmodicus » April 26th, 2021, 1:43 pm

Mention the word "Thorium" and everyone starts donning lead underpants and running around like headless chickens.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1050/thorium.htm

The reality is that thorium is another waste product that has to be managed properly by the rare earth mining industry, as it frequently occurs in association with rare earth minerals, especially in the more concentrated deposits. Some basic information is contained in here
https://www.epa.gov/radiation/technologically-enhanced-naturally-occurring-radioactive-materials-tenorm

Thorium has been suggested as an alternative fuel for nuclear reactors and has a number of advantages over Uranium in this role. However, imo it is unlikely to catch on due to the general fear and mistrust surrounding the nuclear industry. The EV industry will undoubtedly just greenwash their thorium problem away.

Lets hope that PRE can come up with a plausible plan to deal with it.

S
(still holding PRE)

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » April 27th, 2021, 11:44 am


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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » April 27th, 2021, 12:29 pm

Bullet points from discussion:

Business Plan reflects large ore body
Huge demand for product
China sells US$10k pt carbonate / concentrate
PRE product at today's prices would sell at US$90k pt from separation plant
Sell to equipment manufacturers in Europe
Very important for the UK economy
Government interest
Equinor talks / study
Car manufacturers seeking certified product
Vertically integrated - complete control of supply chain
China - no idea how it's been processed
Consumer driven and legitimate
Urbanisation in China will drive huge demand
China won't be exporting rare earths
Not looking for acquisitions, but will process other miners product at saltend
Lynas US$4bn, MP Materials US$6bn PRE £300m see 10xuplift in shareprice by time of production
Newsflow 1). Financing 2). Build 2022 3). Commission 2023
PRE is at Front End Engineering Design stage (FEED)
All permits, approvals and licences are in place
No problem re financing, there are plenty of opportunities around.

Decent pitch for the institutions, good returns within 4 year timescale (2025).

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby GrahamPlatt » April 27th, 2021, 12:51 pm

China plan to put 60% of their population into 9 mega cities - each with a population greater than Germany - in the next ten years.

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » April 28th, 2021, 10:39 am

Pensana have updated their presentation, some of which was touched on by Paul Atherley in his latest interview.

https://pensana.co.uk/wp-content/upload ... yTXdpI_bgQ

Plus you can have a look around the proposed Longonjo Rare Earth facility curtesy of the Wood Group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56_gIrpKr9o

All interesting stuff, Longonjo facility looks to be far more complex than I imagined.

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » May 13th, 2021, 7:01 pm

Shares in Issue Price £ MCap Exch rate US$ Mcap
203,645,822 1.28 £260,666,652 1.40 US$364,933,313

Shareprice has drifted lower since my last report. I agree with those who state that this is because the Company have been a little shy in providing the Feasibility Study and advising how the "January" breaking ground in Angola is going.

At 1.28 today, I think we are pretty close to the bottom. No doubt the Company is undertaking a fund raise, this shouldn't be too difficult as the amounts involved are comparatively small compared to the potential prize. I understand that everything is falling nicely into place.

I stumbled across a decent review by Joel Deakin today, which echo's the above his review can be found at:

https://cube.investments/joels-resource ... -race-pre/

Note JD holds shares in Pensana so views could be tainted...bit like mine lol.

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » May 20th, 2021, 11:46 am

https://treo.substack.com/p/pensana-ack ... -materials

Paul Atherley responds to recent Rare Earth Observer (Singapore publication) comments re radioactive materials issue.

"The Longonjo carbonatite mineralisation contains low NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials) broadly similar in tenor to (for example) the Mount Weld deposit mined by Lynas Corporation in Western Australia.

In conjunction with the Wood Group, Pensana's metallurgical consultants in Australia have successfully developed a proprietary process route which provides for the deportment of NORM to permanent tailings storage in a stable and non-leachable form."

There is more debate within the above link.

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » May 20th, 2021, 11:48 am

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/busines ... es-3243117

Pensana target Yorkshire supply chain for both electric vehicles and off shore wind turbines
Yorkshire Post
Mark Casci
By Mark Casci (mark.casci@jpress.co.uk)
20 May 2021, 602 words, English,
(c) 2021 Johnston Publishing Limited
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The company behind the plan to build Europe’s only rare earth processing centre in Hull has said it wants to create a complete independent supply chain for both the offshore wind and electric vehicle industries.
Pensana, which has been granted permission to build a £100m factory at Saltend in the city to process the rare earth which it will import from its own mines in Angola.
Rare earth, a crucial component in the offshore wind turbine and gas industry, is almost entirely processed in China but Pensana chairman Paul Atherley said his firm wants to create a sustainable supply chain in the UK to support the growth of these industries domestically, a process which begins with the chemical engineering which his firm hopes to have up and running in Yorkshireas early as 2023.
Mr Atherley told The Yorkshire Post: “What we want is for Saltend to become a rare earth processing hub. We will mine in Angola initially and then build on that base, we are talking to other companies about them supplying their rare earth, high value, high purity product to Saltend.
“And then what we are looking to do is not just produce the oxide but to then go to produce metal and ultimately team up with a magnets producer to produce the magnets.
“What we are looking to achieve is a completely independent supply chain of magnet metal for offshore wind turbines and electric vehicles.”
Taking the step to producing metal will require a significant increase in costs given the amount of electricity used and Pensana is speaking to Government to see if arrangements can be reached on this front.
It is already in talks with magnet manufacturer once it can produce metal.
“It will happen relatively quickly, said Mr Atherley.”
The location of the Saltend factory takes it within the boundary of the Humber freeport, something the Pensana boss said would enable it to engage in frictionless trade with Europe.
“There is a package of things there which is perfect for us at this point of time” he said.
“I am not saying it recreates being part of the European Union but it takes away there very obvious negatives of being a Third Country to the European Union.”
Pensana is already speaking to Volkswagen and Volvo about its plans for a supply chain which it believes could bring great benefit to the wider Yorkshire area.
“It is a platform industry,” said Mr Atherley.
The location of the Saltend factory takes it within the boundary of the Humber freeport, something the Pensana boss said would enable it to engage in frictionless trade with Europe.
“There is a package of things there which is perfect for us at this point of time” he said.
“I am not saying it recreates being part of the European Union but it takes away there very obvious negatives of being a Third Country to the European Union.”
Pensana is already speaking to Volkswagen and Volvo about its plans for a supply chain which it believes could bring great benefit to the wider Yorkshire area.
“It is a platform industry,” said Mr Atherley.
“Once you establish these oxides and metals are available, then lots of other companies start to spring off that. But if you don’t have the platform, if you don’t bring those oxides into the country, that platform gets built somewhere else.
“So you have to get the feedstock, and non-Chinese sustainable feedstock at that. Once you have that, you have a platform.”
Hull was selected by Pensana for the factory over rival bids around the country and Mr Atherley said there was growing enthusiasm around the north.
He said: “I can honestly tell you that if I said to you a few years ago ‘come and have a look at a processing site in Hull’, they would not have got on the train.
"Now they are excited, and it is part of the bigger conversation. It is about levelling up and it is about the narrative around the Red Wall and Rishi Sunak putting the Infrastructure Bank into Leeds - they see it as another aspect of that.”

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » June 13th, 2021, 11:16 am

Shares in Issue Price £ MCap Exch rate US$ Mcap
203,645,822 1.25 GBP254,557,278 1.41 US$358,925,761

Haven't posted for a while as there has been little to write about. Saltend has been getting plenty of positive press and I have no doubt this part of the business will be a resounding success. Little or no news out of Angola and apparently Paul Atherley gets a little tetchy when asked about breaking ground / feasibility study etc..
The share price had a decent rebound this week after a slump from just over £2 to around £1.05, it picked up to £1.25 on little or no news. My spies tell me that Liberum (the brokers charged with bringing the institutions on board) have finally pulled their finger out and have done some work. After all, they have done SFA so far and have seen the shareprice drop from £1.70 (when they originally came onboard). Announcement soon I understand about some institutional interest allegedly Blackrock (could be wrong about this - I've got form....). Possibly the reason why the shareprice perked up last week. Anyway, expect news soonish. Let's hope it's positive and we can re-visit £2 again. Cheers D1

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » June 22nd, 2021, 11:57 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM2DhWIX6yQ

Paul Atherley ticks all the boxes apart from BFS and breaking ground in Angola. Interesting information about the recycling process for wind turbines. Pensana hope to remove the hubs of the turbines (which don't last too long in the North Sea) and use a hydrogen decrepitation process to break down the magnets and turn them back into oxides / metals again providing a circular economy which the greens will love....

Hydrogen Decrepitation is a process step used in the production of Neodymium magnets to create extremely small grains in the material. Neodymium magnets must have very small grains averaging about 5 micrometers (1 micro = 0.001mm - so very small) in order to have the best magnetic properties.

After a poor couple of months, I believe Pensana have started to turn the corner. Funding will be in place and there is plenty of support both here in the UK and Angola to make this succeed. Paul Atherley believes that Saltend will be operating by mid 2023, I don't believe him - but I do believe in the long-term story. Regards D1

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby GrahamPlatt » June 29th, 2021, 10:35 am

Equinor 1200MW blue hydrogen plant to power Saltend

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -near-hull

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby spasmodicus » June 29th, 2021, 2:37 pm

GrahamPlatt wrote:Nissan, Sunderland, Gigafactory

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... sunderland


Batteries don't use much if anything by way of rare-earth minerals. They mainly use lithium and transitional metals like cobalt and nickel. The rare-earths produced by Pensana will likely be used in permanent magnets that go into the electric motors in EVs and into the generators in wind turbines. That said, the general industrial activity engendered by a battery gigafactory in the area will do no harm and may lead to EV production increasing in the UK. Pensana just need to get their act together and their Saltend plant up and running. Their share price is currently going nowhere.

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby Dynamo1 » September 8th, 2021, 4:35 pm

Company webinar - at last we get some detail....

https://www.investormeetcompany.com/inv ... or-webinar

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby spasmodicus » February 10th, 2022, 10:52 am

The recent $10 million placement (12.3 million shares or so) with M&G has not done much for the PRE share price and has really only confirmed that 81p might be considered a fair price. Back in 2020 it was more than double that, so it seems that realism has taken over, given the snail’s pace at which progress is being made.
The AGM report Dec 2021 is long on hype and blather, short on the kind of detail that might enable punters to assess whether this one is going to fly, or not. See
https://pensana.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/December-2021-Annual-General-Meeting.pdf

It is full of full of acronyms such as
FEED Front-End Engineering Design
MRES something to do with Mineral Resource Estimate? But Google could not enlighten me. Does anybody know?
We are told that 100% of the T1, T2 and T3 packages are complete. Overall 65% of equipment packages complete targeting 70% for +/-10% accuracy. Jolly good! There are some nice pictures of muddy fields with a JCB, some chaps in hi-vis boiler suits and a small drilling rig, covering an area the size of an average garden shed.

I hope that their attempts at Rare Earth metal production turn out better than their communication skills. I am particularly concerned about the leisurely way in which they seem to be going about this. OK, maybe I'm being impatient what with Covid, Brexit, bureaucracy, foreign mining in 3rd world country etc which are all there as excuses, but does it really take two years to dig a small hole in a field in Humberside?
I am still holding as, damn it, I like the concept and was even considering topping up until I read that report.

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Re: Pensana Rare Earths

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Postby spasmodicus » March 9th, 2022, 11:12 am

Obviously in response to what I said a week or two ago...
I hope that their attempts at Rare Earth metal production turn out better than their communication skills.


Their board has just appointed a fancy-pants (knickers?) PR consultant, according to an RNS from March 7th
https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/PRE/appointment-announcement-xhavazpgijvhfiy.html

Pensana plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Virginia Skroski as Head of Investor Relations and Communications.

Virginia has an extensive track record of developing and implementing investor relations strategies for FTSE250 global leaders Vesuvius plc and Kenmare Resources plc, utilising her background in finance and business development. Prior to corporate finance, Virginia worked as an analyst and fund sales specialist in asset management and private equity.


Sorry, guys, I should have made myself clearer. I meant that you, Pensana, need to up your game in getting the business up and running. I will be interested to hear how our new "servant of PRE" spins the fact that Angola, along with China abstained in the recent UN vote deploring Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Talking of which, PRE might be said to be on a par with the UK Home Office in managing its affairs.The PRE share price tanked even more than market indices in general and that of its plucky little rival RBW in Burundi/S. Africa, which I also hold. OK, it has recovered a bit today and some said e.g. on Advfn (not me) that it was a bargain at 50p or so.

I bought roughly equal value amounts of PRE and RBW a while back, having woken up to the fact that rare earths are a highly strategic mineral. Russia only provides 2% or so of world production so embargos seem not to be a problem here. But the rapid transitionn in EU and UK to renewables and electric powered gadgetry of all kinds implied by the hydrocarbon embargo on Russia, coupled with China's dominance in this commodity should make investment in this stuff a slam dunk. So far, it hasn't as far as PRE and RBW are concerned and jointly, they are about breaking even in my "risky" department.

We live in strange times, so take care everybody!
S


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