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Baobab: a tempting binary bet

Baobab Resources presents a high risk/high reward play in Mozambique as it continues to de-risk its Tete pig iron project in Mozambique ahead of publication of a Definitive Feasibility Study later this year.
May 8, 2014

Over the past six years, Baobab Resources (BAO) has been developing a large mining and processing complex in Mozambique - the Tete Pig Iron & Ferro-Vanadium Project. With prospects for success looking increasingly encouraging, the share price looks well out of step with events.

IC TIP: Buy at 10p
Tip style
Speculative
Risk rating
High
Timescale
Long Term
Bull points
  • Huge potential resource
  • Definitive Feasibility Study imminent
  • Metallurgical upgrades
  • Low cost production
Bear points
  • Binary nature of investment
  • Security issues in Mozambique

Baobab has identified a gross resource measuring 759m tonnes (323m tonnes measured & indicated). By the end of this year, it expects to deliver the Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for the project, which, it is hoped, will attract the interests of an industrial partner - possibly an Asian steelmaker - to fund future development.

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