Valuation lifted for Sula project
Buccaneering Frank Timis’s African Minerals (AMI) may have put its 12.8 billion-tonne flagship Tonkolili iron ore project in Sierra Leone on care and maintenance and had its shares suspended at a small fraction of their float price as the company pursues urgent negotiations about its financial future. But Sula Iron & Gold (SULA), with a somewhat more modest West African iron ore project next door to Tonkolili at Ferensola, is taking a determinedly upbeat view of its own prospects, in the wake of a 50% increase in Ferensola’s technical value in 12 months to $56 million (£37 million), accorded by ubiquitous consultancy group SRK.

