Another iron ore junior bites the dust under high debt load of +600 M USD in bank debt and convertibles and a mine on care and maintenance due to low prices and disputes with Chinese partner. This project had some of the lowest cash costs in the junior iron sector and had made the hurdle into production, yet even so the scale of capital investment and the associated debt load proved too much in the “return to normal” of iron ore pricing. This raises serious questions about market optimism, business models, reasonable pricing and whether small companies really have the resources to develop and operate capital projects of this scale.
LTI Advisory 