EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT

Perpetual confident of Beharra's bona fides

PERPETUAL Resources believes it could get a silica sands project near Geraldton called Beharra into production in a little over 18 months after being encouraged by a prefeasibility study.

 Beharra is located about 96km southeast of Geraldton, WA

Beharra is located about 96km southeast of Geraldton, WA

The study pointed to Beharra's initial capex being $39 million and its post-tax net present value being $231 million. 

It also "clearly demonstrates that the Beharra end product is suitable for sale into the Asia Pacific glass and foundry sand industries". 

The project would have a bameplate production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per annum produced from a run of mine production of 2Mtpa. 

The 32 year project is expected to generate total free cashflow of $1.1 billion.  

Perpetual believes there's "scope to reduce operating and capital costs at feasibility study (or other subsequent) stage which would materially improve financial and return metrics for Beharra". 

Perpetual raised $2 million last month from a German institution that paid 8c per new share. 

Shares in Perpetual were down 7.5% to 8.6c in early afternoon trade, capitalising the company at $41 million.  

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