FY2021
A difficult restart case at Sandstone
Extensive drilling and a completed feasibility study did not establish the standalone restart case sought by management. Exploration remained a major expense.
ASX: MDI · Five-year financial review
(ASX: MDI) Middle Island Resources Limited Financial Review - FY2021~25
Middle Island moved from the Sandstone gold project to a Barkly-focused exploration portfolio. The 2022 disposal produced a large one-off profit and an Aurumin investment; subsequent investment losses, exploration spending and asset sales shaped a very different cash and earnings story.
Reading the figures: Units are stated above each table or beside the metric. Brackets denote negative amounts. Supported nil is shown as zero; unlike reporting bases remain separately labelled.
FY2025 cash
A$2.125m
Closing cash, distinct from quoted investments.
FY2022 Sandstone gain
A$9.158m
One-off disposal gain, not operating sales.
FY2023 fair-value loss
A$2.920m
Investment remeasurement, not cash spent.
FY2025 operating outflow
A$2.038m
Ongoing funding need remained.
Five years in context
The Sandstone feasibility study did not justify a stand-alone restart on the stated assumptions. Selling the project in FY2022 brought cash and shares rather than recurring mine earnings, while exploration activity shifted toward Barkly in the Northern Territory.
For this company the important comparisons are the cost of ongoing exploration, the changing investment portfolio and the cash available to fund work. A disposal gain, a fair-value loss and a cash outflow are different measures and should not be read as one operating trend.
Events behind the numbers
FY2022
Sandstone sold for cash and shares
The sale completed on 20 March 2022. It generated a disposal gain but also left exposure to Aurumin through the consideration shares.
FY2023
Barkly work and investment remeasurement
First-pass Crosswinds drilling did not identify economic mineralisation. Aurumin ceased to be an associate and was treated as a financial asset; fair-value losses weighed on earnings.
FY2024
East Tennant joins the asset base
The acquisition completed after FY2023 balance date using shares, and its tenement acquisition cost appears in the FY2024 balance sheet. It was not a cash purchase of that amount.
FY2025
Drilling, asset sales and a conditional next step
Georgina drilling progressed and investment sales replenished cash. The Konstantin acquisition and accompanying placement were announced after year-end and remained subject to approval.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 01
Exploration losses continued beneath the transaction effects
The very high FY2021 exploration charge accompanied Sandstone’s drilling and feasibility work. Later annual losses were lower but still reflected active exploration and corporate costs. Acquisition rights can be capitalised; the policy expenses other exploration as incurred, so the tenement asset is not cumulative exploration spending.
Investment valuation is a second, distinct driver. FY2023’s fair-value loss was materially larger than exploration expense; the following two years reported gains instead. FY2024 also included a separate share-based-payment charge. These accounting movements should not be mistaken for changes in cash generated by a mine.
Continuing-operations losses
A$ million
Net loss from continuing operations
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Investment remeasurement changed the earnings picture
A$ million
Fair-value gain / (loss)
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Continuing operations: exploration and other costs
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net loss from continuing operations | (6.821) | (5.191) | (5.296) | (1.662) | (2.052) |
| Other income | 0.474 | 0.222 | 0.163 | 0.070 | 0.216 |
| Exploration expense | (5.301) | (0.745) | (1.590) | (0.922) | (1.108) |
| Administration expense | (0.797) | (0.604) | (0.413) | (0.436) | (0.512) |
| Employee benefits expense | (0.514) | (0.867) | (0.502) | (0.616) | (0.682) |
| Depreciation | (0.035) | (0.004) | (0.034) | (0.033) | (0.030) |
Expenses are signed. Other income is the statutory aggregate, not a comparable mine-sales revenue series; FY2022 disclosures include limited gold sales, grants and equipment sales.
FY2021 continuing loss is explicitly identified in the FY2022 comparative. FY2022 discontinued profit is shown separately below, not mixed into the loss trend.
FY2025 uses the statutory loss corroborated by the EPS and going-concern records. A conflicting management-summary loss is not substituted.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
Investment remeasurement: gains and losses change direction
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair-value gain / (loss) | (0.573) | (0.218) | (2.920) | 0.312 | 0.064 |
Positive values are gains; negative values are losses. These are not cash investment-sale proceeds.
FY2022 also has separate equity-accounted associate losses and impairment, detailed below; the fair-value row is not total investment expense.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 02
Why FY2022 was profitable overall, but not operationally
The sale transformed a directly held project into cash and an equity investment. Its disposal gain was substantially larger than the continuing loss, producing a positive combined result. That result cannot be extrapolated as an ongoing earnings rate.
The Aurumin stake then brought its own accounting charges: MDI recognised a share of associate losses and an impairment. The following year’s change from associate to financial asset also changes how the holding affects profit. The former Sandstone rehabilitation provision transferred with the project.
FY2022 Sandstone disposal economics
A$ million
| Metric | FY2022 |
|---|---|
| Cash consideration | 6.000 |
| Share consideration | 6.000 |
| Total consideration | 12.000 |
| Net assets disposed | 2.723 |
| Disposal costs | (0.119) |
| Disposal gain | 9.158 |
| Sandstone discontinued result, including pre-sale loss | 9.027 |
| All discontinued operations: reported profit | 9.258 |
Consideration less net assets and disposal costs produces the Sandstone disposal gain. Half of the consideration was Aurumin shares, not cash.
The combined discontinued result includes Burkina Faso as well as Sandstone. The saved subsidiary subtotals differ from the reported combined amount by A$1; the reported total is retained.
Disposal is a business transaction, not annual gold-sales revenue. The Sandstone rehabilitation obligation passed to Aurumin.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FY2022 Aurumin associate investment: a separate earnings drag
A$ million
| Metric | FY2022 |
|---|---|
| Share of associate loss | (1.672) |
| Impairment of associate | (1.303) |
| Closing associate investment | 4.025 |
| Total result: continuing plus discontinued (calculated) | 4.067 |
The positive combined result came from discontinued operations, not a profitable ongoing exploration business. The calculated A$4.067028m sum is explicitly the two net-result lines. The tax note instead labels A$4.070554m as profit; that equals the comprehensive total after the A$3,526 translation movement. These differently labelled observations are not silently interchanged.
At FY2022 year-end Aurumin was a 25.14% associate. By FY2023 it was no longer an associate and the holding was measured as a financial asset; those are different accounting bases.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 03
Asset sales and equity—not operating cash generation—funded the work
Operating cash flow was negative in every year. FY2022 disposal cash helped build the cash balance without an equity raise, but FY2023 then consumed cash with nil financing. The nil years are substantive parts of the funding history, not missing columns.
FY2025 closing cash increased despite the operating outflow because investment sales and new shares supplied cash. Both the gross sale receipts and the outlays that reduce net investing cash flow are shown below. The sale of an investment replenishes liquidity once; it is not a substitute for recurring revenue.
Three cash-flow lanes
A$ million
Net operating cash flowNet investing cash flowNet financing cash flow
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Operating cash use, investing transactions and financing
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net operating cash flow | (6.537) | (3.266) | (2.236) | (1.866) | (2.038) |
| Net investing cash flow | (0.509416) | 4.913344 | 0.000585 | (0.179953) | 1.381023 |
| Net financing cash flow | 5.584 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.089 | 1.080 |
| Net cash movement before exchange effects | (1.463) | 1.647 | (2.236) | (0.957) | 0.423 |
FY2022 and FY2023 financing are explicitly nil in the retained interpretations and comparative columns, not unavailable values.
FY2021 closing cash also includes an exchange movement of A$(1,986). FY2022 operating cash flow includes A$0.826025m spent on discontinued operations.
FY2023 investing inflow was A$585; extra precision prevents it from disappearing as a rounded zero.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
The cash-flow drivers—not the accounting profit
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payments to suppliers and employees | (1.272) | (1.714) | (0.903) | (1.041) | (1.124) |
| Expenditure on mining interests | (5.738) | (0.841) | (1.610) | (0.895) | (1.108) |
| Cash proceeds from share issues | 5.611 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.158 | 1.131 |
FY2022 and FY2023 share receipts are explicitly nil. FY2024/FY2025 cash issue costs were A$0.069130m/A$0.050489m; noncash consideration shares do not enter this row.
FY2021 investing includes A$3.544777m investment purchases and A$3.136659m investment sales. FY2022 includes A$6m sale receipts, A$1m investment purchases and A$0.086773m PPE purchases.
FY2024 investing includes share purchases and tenement bonds as well as PPE. These components are already inside the net cash-flow totals, not additional expenditures.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FY2025 investing: selling investments supported the cash balance
A$ million
| Metric | FY2025 |
|---|---|
| Investment-sale cash proceeds | 1.550 |
| Investment purchases | (0.083) |
| Tenement bond payments | (0.034) |
| PPE purchases | (0.052) |
| Net investing cash inflow | 1.381 |
The auditor separately describes net proceeds from Aurumin shares of A$1.440m and option-sale proceeds of A$0.109910m. These net transaction descriptions are not substituted for the cash-flow statement’s gross investment-sale line.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 04
What remained after Sandstone and the Aurumin investment
The balance sheet initially exchanged project assets for cash and an associate holding. Later investment valuation declines reduced the asset base. In FY2023 the Aurumin holding was non-current; by FY2024 the reported financial assets were current. Classification and investment measurement need to be read alongside the totals.
East Tennant was acquired with shares after FY2023 year-end. Its acquisition carrying amount remains separate from exploration written off through profit or loss. The FY2025 auditor describes the Aurumin disposal and the remaining listed-share balance; the latter is not treated as a continuing Aurumin holding.
Closing cash versus equity
A$ million
Cash and cash equivalentsTotal equity / net assets
AI-generated presentation · values from Group liquidity and financial position; no missing values plotted as zero.
Group liquidity and financial position
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 3.248 | 4.895 | 2.659 | 1.702 | 2.125 |
| Total assets | 7.329 | 9.312 | 3.977 | 4.124 | 3.178 |
| Total liabilities | 1.800 | 0.146 | 0.107 | 0.152 | 0.177 |
| Total equity / net assets | 5.529 | 9.166 | 3.870 | 3.972 | 3.000 |
Group consolidated balances are used; parent-only assets and subsidiary loans are not substituted.
Cash and quoted investments are different forms of liquidity. Equity is an accounting residual, not a cash reserve.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
Investment and exploration assets: what changed ownership or basis?
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current financial assets | 0.315 | 0.097 | 0.117 | 1.652 | 0.272 |
| Tenement acquisition costs carried forward | 1.676 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.638 | 0.638 |
FY2022 also carried the separate A$4.025m associate investment above. Adding it to current financial assets explains the broader A$4.121903m investment figure in the working-capital discussion; the two are not competing measurements of one asset.
FY2023 current financial assets exclude the separately classified non-current Aurumin holding of A$1.085m. The FY2024 schedule moves investment value into current assets and reports nil non-current financial assets.
Tenement acquisition cost is not annual exploration expense: FY2021 concerns the earlier portfolio; FY2024–FY2025 includes the East Tennant acquisition. Other exploration and evaluation costs are expensed as incurred.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
Reported current borrowings before the later presentation changed
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current borrowings | 0.070 | 0.014 | 0.000 |
FY2023 is explicitly nil. FY2024–FY2025 do not supply a standalone Group borrowing balance in this packet; no zero-filled extension is made.
Parent loans to wholly owned subsidiaries are internal funding, not external consolidated borrowings.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 05
Commitments and subsequent events set the funding context
The next-12-month tenement commitments sit alongside, not in place of, ongoing corporate expenditure. At FY2025 year-end the auditor identified material uncertainty about going concern and dependence on additional funding. Available cash should therefore not be presented as a guaranteed multi-year runway.
The proposed Konstantin acquisition involved consideration shares and options, with a separate A$3.4m placement commitment. Both were post-balance-date and subject to shareholder approval. They are not June cash, completed acquisition assets or financing already received in FY2025.
No FY2025 dividend was declared. Potential tax benefits from accumulated losses remain dependent on future taxable income and the relevant recognition conditions; they are not added to available cash.
Next-12-month statutory exploration commitments
A$ million
| Metric | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Granted Northern Territory tenements | 0.441 | 0.555 |
These are forward minimum expenditure obligations on granted NT tenements, not annual exploration expense or a forecast of total cash burn. Aurumin’s own commitments are not added to MDI’s obligations.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
Reading the figures
- All money is consolidated A$ million unless stated. Whole-dollar source values are scaled explicitly; periods end on 30 June. No producer-margin or sales-volume series is fabricated for this exploration-led history.
- FY2022 continuing, discontinued and comprehensive results are different measures. The combined discontinued subtotal differs by A$1 from the saved subsidiary components; reported totals are retained.
- FY2025 statutory loss and the auditor’s financial-asset disposal description are selected over conflicting management-summary descriptions. The contradictory summary wording is not used to create a second loss or a continuing Aurumin holding.
- Standalone current borrowings are shown only through FY2023. Missing later standalone borrowing observations are not zero-filled. Internal parent/subsidiary loans are excluded from Group external debt.
- Resource estimates and past drilling do not establish saleable production or reserves. Conditional post-year-end transactions are not incorporated into historical cash or assets.
- Prepared from existing year-by-year extraction records only. No raw-source retrieval, database query, financial web research or MiniMax call. GPT review against saved extractions; not an independent original-document audit.
Annual-report source registry
- Middle Island Resources Limited - Annual Report to shareholdersExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
- Middle Island Resources Limited - Annual Report to ShareholdersExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
- Middle Island Resources Limited - Annual Report to shareholdersExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
- Middle Island Resources Limited - Full Year Statutory AccountsExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
- Middle Island Resources Limited - Full Year Statutory AccountsExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
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