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$MSMGF A LOT to unpack from today’s Investor Conference Presentation post the maiden cesium MRE just announced.
What stood out to me wasn’t just the size of the resource. Robin laid out a surprisingly clear and potentially FAST path to commercialization:
• Targeting 15–20% Cs concentrate through simple XRT ore sorting. At that grade, Robin says it becomes a saleable product.
• Customer qualification material expected to go out in the next 2–3 months, followed by discussions around potential commercial terms.
• Estimated CAPEX of LESS THAN C$10M.
• Goal to have Falcon West permitted and ready to go NEXT YEAR.
• Current resource was intentionally defined as something Grid could “take out quickly, make some money, and then continue the exploration.” expanding the resource.
• Grid has already identified FOUR additional highly fractionated pegmatites nearby and believes Falcon West could ultimately host multiple cesium-bearing deposits.
• Avenir/Agnico’s investment structure should largely fund the project into production.
And importantly, Grid isn’t viewing concentrate as necessarily the end game. Robin said they will “definitely explore” opportunities to capture higher margins downstream, potentially alongside strategic partners.
On demand, drilling fluids remain the established major market, while defense, aerospace, electronics, atomic timing and other strategic applications provide additional demand. Longer term, cesium-containing perovskite and tandem solar technologies represent another potentially significant emerging application as the industry works toward higher-efficiency next-generation solar cells.
The strategy is increasingly clear:
MRE → metallurgy/ore sorting → 15–20% concentrate → customer qualification → offtake/commercial terms → low-CAPEX production → expand the resource → potentially move downstream to capture significantly more margins.
Lucy South may ultimately prove to be the FIRST deposit rather than the Falcon West deposit.
For a company with roughly a C$40M market cap, that is a hell of an interesting setup.... imo
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