Lots of companies in the same situation. Great to have material in ground but a project needs infrastructure, capital, customers, processing, data, permits and much more. Hence the gap. Business 101.
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#Copper price at $6.28/lb., up 36% in the past year and 7.5% from the low of this week. Why is this not bigger news?!? PTX Metals'
@PTXMetals $PTX.v has a 2.3B Cu Eq. lb. resource target with an in-situ value of C$14.4B vs. an enterprise value of just C$18M.