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5 min readECR Minerals has raised a modest sum to accelerate work at its Madden’s project in Australia, where the company is weeks away from its first gold pour. Executive chairman Nick Tulloch walked through the mechanics of the operation, the rationale for the raise, and what investors should realistically expect as the company tries to graduate from explorer to producer.
The Madden’s property is a 50-square-kilometre license in Victoria that contains six historical mines, all with existing mining leases. A recent LIDAR survey has shown connectivity between those mines, suggesting the site has “district scale potential” that has never been subjected to modern exploration. The company is currently focused on the Madden’s Underground Mine, where it has already hit visible gold while driving the decline into the next gold-bearing quartz zone. Ore is being stockpiled outside the mine entrance, and processing is expected to begin within weeks, likely during September.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:13) **Fundraise to Accelerate Madden's Gold Project** - ECR Minerals raises capital to speed up work at its key Madden's project in Australia.
- 2 (02:46) **Use of Funds: Processing, Alluvials, and Mine Expansion** - The capital will be used for immediate production and to replicate success at neighboring mines.
- 3 (04:16) **Path to First Gold Pour and Cash Flow** - The company expects to generate cash soon, with a key milestone approaching in weeks.
- 4 (05:15) **Fundraise Structure and Market Respect** - The raise was led by existing investors to minimize dilution and discount.
- 5 (06:30) **Addressing Past Skepticism and Re-Rating Potential** - The chairman directly confronts the company's history of unfulfilled promises.
- 6 (08:32) **Conservative Financial Modeling and Profitability** - The company's projects remain highly profitable even with a significantly lower gold price.
- 7 (10:00) **Near-Term News Flow and Production Timeline** - The immediate future is centered on production from Madden's and exploration at other sites.
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ECR Minerals has completed a fundraising designed to help it accelerate the production process at Maddens. It could now be weeks rather than months before the underground portion of the Maddens gold mine in Australia goes into production, and ECR is keen to hurry the process along as fast as possible. To that end it has completed a modest raise at a fairly mild discount, as the work continues. The company's executive chairman Nick Tulloch joins Vox to explain the thinking behind the raise, and to tell us what happens next.
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