ckcl78
07 Apr 2015
Also the stated value for London Mining's property, plant & equipment was usd 497 Mn and total obligations was usd 338.8 so it's no surprise that even creditors had to take a haircut during liquidation. In the case of AML total obligations (including payables) amount to usd 1 Bn and PP&E is valued at usd 2.4 Bn. So even at a fire sale I still think there should be something left for us
ckcl78
07 Apr 2015
Has anyone tried to reach any of these investors to find out if they are taking any actions? I'm also wondering how China Railway Feels about getting their stake wiped out in the worst case scenario. Wouldn't surprise me if they became a potential bidder
ckcl78
07 Apr 2015
M&G Investment management 12.05% (England), Capital Research Global Investment 6.93% (US), Northcroft Trading 6.54% (Switzerland), bangura 2.35% (UK), ING Investment 1.61% (Netherlands), Franklin Templeton 1.61% (Canada)
ckcl78
07 Apr 2015
FT 12.74%, China Railway 12.44%,
ckcl78
07 Apr 2015
AMI's ownership before share suspension was:
4unme
06 Apr 2015
ckcl78 SISG and SL government are very keen to restart Tonkolili mine. But we need other interested parties to bid AMI assets so that we get a affair value for our shares from whoever buy the assets.
ckcl78
06 Apr 2015
Or they may choose to set up a newCo, purchase all the assets and move them to newCo, so I'm crossing my fingers for this scenario to take place and that the assets get valued at a fair price
ckcl78
06 Apr 2015
I guess begger brought the point that I've been fearing the most. That SGIS and other lenders decide to convert the debt into equity and continue working with the mine. If this happens the dilution would almost wipe out our ownership stake and value of our holdings
ckcl78
05 Apr 2015
Begger, if I'm not wrong AML's bonds were convertible, meaning that bondholders could convert their debt into AML equity. It wouldn't be a bad idea for the sake of lowering AML's financial burdens if they were to convert into equity. However, that'd would likely dilute all shareholders' share meaning that we would own lower percentage stake
ckcl78
05 Apr 2015
4unme, during liquidations secured lenders and preferred shareholders get the first dibs, followed by unsecured lenders and other parties that have claim on payables. And what's left over goes for equity holders. I doubt there are legal ways to change this priority
4unme
30 Mar 2015
AMI assets We should still own all our assets. SISG can't simply grab our assets just like that. Lets hope we get Tewoo to bid for us.
ckcl78
29 Mar 2015
I'd guess SGIS would either purchase coal to blend it with tonkoli or buy it from FT. Marampa's iron ore has better % Fe so it'd make sense for the Chinese in terms of transportation cost to ship something of higher quality
ckcl78
29 Mar 2015
Valuation, given the steep fall in iron ore prices and the fact that SGIS holds control of logistics, I doubt valuation would be anything close to the numbers from a year ago. But I think it should be sufficiently high enough to give us back something
ckcl78
29 Mar 2015
Also given that SISG holds control of the infra a lot of people may deem the mine worthless. However, let's not forget that we still have a claim to 75% of the mine so the infra is also worthless on SGIS' side unless they have full control of the mine. In this case the only parties that would put up money for our stake on the mine would have to be SISG itself or related parties, hence we should stick together and not allow the sale to be significantly less than its fair value
ckcl78
29 Mar 2015
I'm not entire sure this was a set by all members of BoD and management since they were desperately knocking on the doors of almost every PE around the world in order to raise some capital for the mine. Where it gets a bit suspicious is how FT used his funds to acquire Marampa instead of injecting it to the company under the logic that by mixing marampa's high %Fe iron ore with tonkoli's iron ore they could get a premium.
