Alkane Resources — Finishing the year with a flourish

Alkane Resources (ASX: ALK)

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Alkane Resources — Finishing the year with a flourish

Alkane has provided a pre-quarterly update for its Tomingley Gold Operation (TGO). Strong production performance of 17koz of gold produced across April and May has led the company to revise upwards its H217 production target from 31-36koz, to 43-45koz. H217 all-in sustaining costs (AISC) are also estimated to come down from A$1,350-1,550/oz published by Alkane in January, to A$1,000-1,100/oz. This is expected to have a positive effect on the company’s cash flow, which will be confirmed via its FY17 financials due out mid-July.

Lord Ashbourne

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Lord Ashbourne

Director of Content, Mining

Metals & Mining

Alkane Resources

Finishing the year with a flourish

Pre-quarterly update

Metals and mining

27 June 2017

Price

A$0.24

Market cap

A$121m

A$/US$0.75

Net cash (A$m) at 31 March 2017

20.8

Shares in issue

505.2m

Free float

51%

Code

ALK

Primary exchange

ASX

Secondary exchange

OTCQX

Share price performance

Business description

Alkane Resources is a multi-commodity explorer and developer, with projects in the central west region of New South Wales in Australia. It owns the Tomingley Gold Operation (TGO) and the Dubbo Project (DP) rare metal, zirconium chemicals and rare earths projects (both 100%). TGO entered production in January 2014 and DP is planned for first production during 2019.

Analysts

Tom Hayes

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Charles Gibson

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Alkane has provided a pre-quarterly update for its Tomingley Gold Operation (TGO). Strong production performance of 17koz of gold produced across April and May has led the company to revise upwards its H217 production target from 31-36koz, to 43-45koz. H217 all-in sustaining costs (AISC) are also estimated to come down from A$1,350-1,550/oz published by Alkane in January, to A$1,000-1,100/oz. This is expected to have a positive effect on the company’s cash flow, which will be confirmed via its FY17 financials due out mid-July.

Year end

Revenue (A$m)

PBT*
(A$m)

EPS*
(c)

DPS
(c)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

06/15

101.8

0.1

1.0

0.0

24.0

N/A

06/16

109.6

11.0

2.2

0.0

10.9

N/A

06/17e

98.0

(17.7)

(1.5)

0.0

N/A

N/A

06/18e

104.3

(16.2)

(1.2)

0.0

N/A

N/A

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional items and share-based payments.

Alkane’s strong H2 production performance at the TGO has also led the company to revise its full-year FY17 production guidance to 65-67koz Au at all-in sustaining costs of between A$1,300/oz and A$1,400/oz. This is 12% above our TGO gold production estimate for FY17 (published in May 2017) of 58koz, and slightly ahead of our AISC estimate for FY17 of A$1,469/oz.

This positive H217 production performance sees Alkane finishing FY17 with a flourish, after a difficult H117 dominated by intense periods of rainfall, which negatively affected gold mining at the TGO. Further, Alkane has guided that it expects to produce 65-70koz of gold in FY18 at an AISC of between A$1,100/oz to A$1,200/oz. We expect to revise our base case valuation for the TGO, and Alkane’s shares, pending its release of formal revised underground mine plans for the TGO, sometime towards the end of H118 (H2 CY17). This will follow the completion of current drilling activities and a revised resource and reserve statement for the TGO.

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