High-grade reserves underpin low costs, but reserve depletion is a significant challenge
We maintain our AUD 1.80 per share fair value estimate for Western Areas. While the outlook is for weaker production and higher cash costs in fiscal 2017, tighter capital cost control offsets those headwinds and sees our fair value maintained. The fiscal 2016 adjusted net loss of AUD 17 million was in line with our expectation. Western Areas is focused on cash preservation in the current environment, correct in our view. Tightening up capital expenditures will restrict some sources of higher-gra...Western Areas Limited is an Australia-based mining company. The Company's principal activities include mining, processing and sale of nickel sulfide concentrate, the continued assessment of development feasibility of the high-grade nickel mines, and the exploration for nickel sulfides, other base metals and platinum group metals. The Company has nickel production assets in Australia and base metals development projects across Australia, Canada and Finland. The Company's Forrestania project includes two nickel mines, Flying Fox and Spotted Quoll; the Cosmic Boy Concentrator, which treats the ore and produces nickel concentrate for sale; a regional tenement package, and site infrastructure, including a 450-bed accommodation village, grid connected power, water management network, airstrip and nickel concentrate export facilities.
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