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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, January 29, 2019 – Millrock Resources Inc. (TSX-V: MRO, OTCQX: MLRKF) (“Millrock” or the “Company”) reports that results from a drilling program completed at the La Navidad gold project in Sonora State, Mexico have been received. The program focused on the northwestern portion of the project. Four holes were drilled at El Tigre prospect, where gold had been detected by soil sampling in the vicinity of historic mine workings. The drill holes tested induced polarization geophysical anomalies and northwest-trending high-angle structures that appear to control mineralization observed at surface. Four further holes tested El Chupadero prospect where alteration (decalcification and jasperoid replacement of limestone) pointed to the possibility of an intrusion-related gold deposit. In total, eight holes totaling 1,844 meters were drilled in the program. The exploration work was funded under an option to joint venture agreement by Centerra Gold Inc. (“Centerra”).
The drilling results were generally disappointing. Only a few weakly anomalous gold values were returned. The alteration and mineralization observed at surface appear to weaken in the subsurface. It does not appear that further exploration work on these prospects is warranted.
Millrock has received notification from Centerra that it is terminating the option to joint venture agreements on both La Navidad and El Picacho gold projects.
Millrock President & CEO Gregory Beischer stated “Millrock thanks Centerra for the investment they made in advancing these projects. While Centerra has elected to leave, we strongly believe the projects have excellent technical merit. We think they will be attractive to mid-tier or smaller mining companies. Our intention is to seek out new funding partners, but at the same time we will have to balance the cost to hold to La Navidad and El Picacho concessions in the face of Millrock’s currently limited cash position.”
Corporate Developments:
PolarX Shares and Cash Position
Millrock recently sold 10 million PolarX shares for A$475,000. While Millrock continues to be a strong believer in the Alaska Range Project, given Millrock’s relatively weak cash position it made sense to sell the shares. Millrock continues to be entitled to a production royalty, an advanced minimum royalty, and certain milestone payments.
Gregory Beischer, Millrock President and CEO stated, “Equity markets continue to be very tight. Millrock has to be extremely careful with its remaining funds. Management is cutting costs in all ways possible while the technical team works diligently to secure new funding partners. It is management’s view that securing new partnerships will be the best way for the Company to reduce overhead costs. The Company has an excellent portfolio of gold and copper projects but there is a cost to hold un-partnered projects until new partners are secured. Given the continued weakness of Millrock’s cash position (approximately C$790,000, as of today’s date, net of near-term accounts receivable and payable), the Company is considering all possible alternatives to move forward, including divestiture of Mexico projects and other assets.”
Quality Control – Quality Assurance
Millrock adheres to stringent Quality Assurance – Quality Control (“QA/QC”) standards. For the La Navidad drill program drill core samples were kept in a secure location at all times. Rock samples were assayed at the Bureau Veritas laboratory in Hermosillo, Mexico. Preparation and analysis methods are described in further detail here. The sample preparation method code being utilized for the current rock sampling program was PRP70-250. Analysis methods used include FA430 (30 gr/Fire Assay/ICP) and AQ-200 (Aqua Regia – ICP/MS). For every 20 rock samples a blank sample known to contain less than 3 parts per billion gold or a standard sample (Certified Reference Materials) of known gold concentration, or a duplicate sample was also analyzed. The qualified person is of the opinion that the results received from the laboratory for the samples in collected in this drill program are reliable.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information disclosed within this document has been prepared, reviewed and approved by Gregory A. Beischer, President, CEO and a director of Millrock Resources. Mr. Beischer is a qualified person as defined in NI 43-101.
About Millrock Resources Inc.
Millrock Resources Inc. is a premier project generator to the mining industry. Millrock identifies, packages and operates large-scale projects for joint venture, thereby exposing its shareholders to the benefits of mineral discovery without the usual financial risk taken on by most exploration companies. The company is active in Alaska, the southwest USA and Sonora State, Mexico. Funding for drilling at Millrock’s exploration projects is primarily provided by its joint venture partners. Business partners of Millrock have included some of the leading names in the mining industry: Centerra Gold, First Quantum, Teck, Kinross, Vale, Inmet, Altius, and Riverside. Millrock is a major shareholder of junior explorer Sojourn Exploration Inc.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Gregory Beischer”
Gregory Beischer, President & CEO
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The last time Bob and I spoke global equity markets were coming unhinged and he very calmly stated that he thought there was a very good chance of a stock market rally starting very soon. As it turns out he was right, within a couple of days only because markets were closed on Christmas Day. Stock have essentially rallied non-stop for the last month and Bob now thinks the dead-cat bounce is about to come to an end. He also has some interesting thoughts on the global debt bubble that is about to pop and the government shutdown that just ended in the U.S. Without further ado here is Energy & Gold’s January 2019 conversation with 321gold founder Bob Moriarty…
Goldfinger: We’ve seen a nice move up in precious metals since the last time we spoke (Christmas Eve) and gold is currently knocking on the door of important resistance near $1300. Gold mining shares have also spent the last few weeks undergoing a healthy consolidation. What do you see for precious metals and mining stocks right now?
Bob Moriarty: I think that gold is the antithesis of the stock market right now. When stocks went down in December gold went up and two Fridays ago we saw gold get dinged about 1% while stocks rallied. I think a lot of smart people are sensing a crash is right around the corner and I think that gold and gold mining shares will soar when the stock bubble pops.
Goldfinger: We’ve received quarterly earnings reports for many of the world’s largest mining companies and generally speaking they have been quite poor; BHP disappointed, Freeport lowered guidance, Barrick didn’t impress with higher than expected costs, etc. We are starting to see a trend of increasing costs across the mining sector – even a massive miner like Barrick Gold reported US$3.00 per pound all-in sustaining costs (AISC) for copper production which means that Barrick is losing money mining copper on an all-in cost basis. While their cash costs are considerably lower (around US$2.00/lb) which means they won’t be reducing production anytime soon, the fact is that many global copper producers aren’t really incentivized to find new sources of copper production with copper prices sitting at US$2.65/lb.
Bob Moriarty: Here’s the deal, prices go from extreme highs to extreme lows. The prices of commodities will often go below the cost of production and people will shut projects down which will help commodity prices go back up again. The cost of labor has gone up while grades keep dropping, this explains why costs keep rising. Now when I see a price of copper of US$2.65/lb and I see all-in sustaining costs of US$3/lb I know we’re near a low.
Goldfinger: Considering the growing demand for electric vehicles and the rewiring of the global energy grid the future looks particularly bright for copper right now, however, you wouldn’t have guessed that by looking at the copper price chart:
The world is going to need a lot more copper over the next couple of decades. If Barrick can’t even mine the stuff profitably where are we going to find new sources of economic copper? Or I guess another way to ask that question is why aren’t copper prices a lot higher?
Bob Moriarty: It’s pretty clear to me that resource prices will have to move a lot higher and that would include base metals like copper and zinc. If copper prices remain below US$3/lb we simply won’t have enough supply to meet demand and prices will skyrocket higher in a very short period of time.
Goldfinger: Do you have any comments on the big gold producer mergers we have seen recently (Barrick and Randgold, Goldcorp and Newmont)? Do these mega-mergers have any impact upon the juniors and are we likely to see even more M&A within the gold sector in 2019?
Bob Moriarty: In general this trend is good for the juniors because the majors do not have exploration departments anymore, most of their new projects have to come from juniors. If metals prices go the way I think they will this year we will see more and more M&A throughout the year. You have to remember that majors like to acquire exploration & developments projects when prices are high and/or rising – nobody is going to make a big copper project acquisition at $2.65/lb but you can be certain that at $3.65/lb we will have more takeovers.
Goldfinger: One of my themes for 2019 is outperformance by the mid-tier gold producers and developers. One of the key catalysts to drive this outperformance should be M&A, with majors acquiring the most attractive mid-tiers while we will see mid-tiers combining with one another to create larger companies that will be treated better by the market, due to increased synergies and better cost structures.
Do you agree that we will see a lot of consolidation among mid-tiers in 2019?
Bob Moriarty: There has to be more consolidation in the sector, they have no choice. When you mine you are constantly consuming your young so you either have to explore and make new discoveries to replace the ounces you’re producing (read consuming) or you have to use M&A to replace reserves. Right now we aren’t seeing much exploration and certainly not much exploration success so the mid-tiers and majors have no choice but to merge with one another.
The big mergers that we’ve seen are also designed to make the companies more efficient and to lower costs per ounce. They should be more efficient and they should have lower costs, it’s not excusable for a major gold mining company to have all-in costs of over US$1,200 per ounce.
Goldfinger: The CEOs of Barrick and Newmont have stated publicly that they are no longer in the business of growth at all costs, they are going to manage their companies with an eye to the bottom line and clearly these recent mega-mergers help to achieve that objective.
Bob Moriarty: One of things that I don’t hear mentioned very often is that since 2007 the financial mismanagement by the global central banks has caused so many whipsaws in commodity prices that it has made it very hard to run a large commodity producer. How can you run an oil company when oil is $140 one day and then $35 the next day?
We need to get back to financial sanity and I believe we are seeing the gold mining sector get back to financial sanity with a focus on the bottom line.
Goldfinger: At the end of 2018 we had a brief stock market panic, let’s call it the Christmas Eve 2018 panic, you had been calling for a market crash and while I wouldn’t call it a crash it was definitely a serious panic. Is that it? Or was that just a tremor before the real crash happens?
Bob Moriarty: The last time we spoke I predicted a turnaround in stocks and then I wrote a post stating as much on Christmas Eve. Stocks have basically moved straight up for the last month and I still believe we have a monster crash coming. It could start next week or 1-2 months from now, but it is coming. December was the end of the beginning, we’ve just seen the previews of the real movie. The financial system is so warped that when the crash comes it’s going to the greatest financial tsunami in history. The action since Christmas Eve up until now is just a dead-cat bounce which helps to build up some more complacency before the real downturn begins.
Goldfinger: It’s more evident than ever to me that we are in a central bank controlled financial system and this was clearly evident when the Fed quickly backpedaled after New Year’s indicating they would be “patient” with regard to any further rate hikes. The market took this to mean that there wouldn’t be another hike for at least six months and that any hike would be well telegraphed far in advance.
Meanwhile, we’re seeing a lot of evidence that global economic growth has been deteriorating and there are few indications that this trend will change anytime soon. Precious metals and gold in particular could be in a sweet spot as global central banks begin easing (after a couple years of tightening via rate hikes and balance sheet shrinkage) against the backdrop of weakening economic growth and an unusually daunting set of global macro uncertainties. Price action in precious metals has also been quite constructive since August of last year while sentiment has remained relatively muted and institutional exposure to gold and silver continues to be virtually non-existent.
With the US dollar looking like it’s about to turn lower after a strong performance in 2018, gold in US dollar terms is poised to perform exceptionally well in 2019. It feels like conditions are ripe for a stellar year for precious metals in 2019.
Bob Moriarty: I think you’re onto something there and there’s some data that’s shown that gold has been making record highs in almost every other currency other than the US dollar. What I see happening is the stock market beginning to crash in the next couple of months which will cause the Fed to panic and reimplement QE-infinity which will weigh heavily on the dollar and in turn turbo-charge precious metals and other hard assets.
There are tremendous forces building up across the world right now that will eventually result in a massive explosion. Let me give you an example, I just wrote a piece about the yellow vests in France. Did you know that there are now protests going on in more than 30 countries around the world? Yellow vest protests.
Goldfinger: No, I didn’t know that. The Gilets-Jaunes (yellow vests) are a symptom of a bigger problem. The elite and ruling classes have ripped off the system and left the common working class people paying for their excesses and the excesses of central banks that they have managed to profit from.
What do you think about the FBI dawn raid and arrest of Roger Stone?
Bob Moriarty: We’re in never never land, we’ve got the FBI and the DOJ trying to say who the President of the United States should be. This is treason being carried about by government law enforcement agencies. This is the most bizarre thing in American history, i’ve never seen anything like it. And then you have incidences like the one with the Kentucky high school kids at the Lincoln Memorial where the leftists and left-stream media are trying to completely distort reality and it can only end in tragedy. There is going to be a revolution/civil war in the United States and it is going to spread worldwide. There are yellow vest protests in China and Poland and around the world. They’re even protesting in Canada! Who the heck protests in Canada?!!
Goldfinger: Trump caved in on the government shutdown last week after 35 days of shutting down the federal government. What was accomplished through this government shutdown and can Trump really build a wall via emergency order?
Bob Moriarty: Nothing at all. Trump tried to show Pelosi how much power he had and he did. He has next to none. The whole wall issue is a circus side show. We have had open borders for a hundred years and we somehow survived. Fifty years ago I would go dove hunting in Mexico and you could wave at the customs guys as you passed through.
Goldfinger: I read a statistic the other day that the US has US$122 Trillion of unfunded liabilities which equates to 564% of Fiscal 2018 GDP. To fund these unfunded liabilities would require 10% of GDP for more than 56 years. The debt pile that has built up around the world, particularly in the US, is so large that it will never be repaid. I don’t think these massive government liabilities were ever meant to be repaid.
Bob Moriarty: You’re right, it will never be repaid and it was never intended to be repaid. When you were a kid did you ever blow up a balloon at a party?
Goldfinger: Yes, of course.
Bob Moriarty: I want you to imagine the biggest balloon you’ve ever seen and you start blowing into it, you keep blowing into it, and it keeps expanding, what is going to eventually happen?
Goldfinger: Eventually it’s going to pop!
Bob Moriarty: No shit! If you understand balloons then you understand debt bubbles. You can keep blowing into that balloon but you can be sure that if you keep blowing into it then it’s going to pop. The same way that if we keep inflating the debt bubble you can be sure that it’s going to pop one day and the consequences will be like nothing you or I have ever seen before. One day grandma is going to go try to cash her social security check and the bank is going to tell her the check bounced. Want to see a panic? That will be a real panic.
Goldfinger: One more topic before we wrap up, we’ve talked about a few companies recently including Westhaven Ventures (TSX-V:WHN), Irving Resources (CSE:IRV), and Novo Resources (TSX-V:NVO). Do you have any comments or updates on these stories?
Bob Moriarty: Novo is everything i’ve been saying for the last six years and they are making wonderful progress. Novo CEO Quinton Hennigh is also Chairman of the Board of a company called Miramont (CSE:MONT) that literally just started drilling some attractive targets in Peru and that one is going to be a home run. Quinton is also involved with Irving Resources and they are about to start drilling on Hokkaido Island in Japan.
Westhaven delivered some nice intercepts recently and notwithstanding the short term market gyrations I believe that Shovelnose is a great project that will eventually be a mine.
Goldfinger: So Irving is about to start drilling within the next couple of weeks?
Bob Moriarty: Yes, and they will announce it to the market when they do begin.
Goldfinger: I posted a couple of charts of gold and silver recently illustrating a positive outlook for both metals. What is sentiment telling you here? Is there room for silver to get up to $17 and gold up above $1350 before we have the next correction?
Gold (Weekly)
Silver (Weekly)
Bob Moriarty: I’m ok at predicting price direction but hopeless at predicting price. We have had a bottom in silver, gold and platinum. Palladium has gotten pretty toppy. If and when the Fed reinstates QE, you are going to want to hold precious metals.
Well that sums it up succinctly; we’ve made a bottom in precious metals and the growing global debt tsunami increasingly makes precious metals a compelling asset for investors to hold. Bob doesn’t proclaim to be a market timer, nevertheless his calls at key market turning points are among the best i’ve ever seen. I believe him when he says the dead-cat bounce in large cap US equities is coming to an end very soon. As always, we’d like to thank Bob for his time and insights. Until next time…
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Goldfinger: We’ve seen a nice move up in precious metals since the last time we spoke (Christmas Eve) and gold is currently knocking on the door of important resistance near $1300. Gold mining shares have also spent the last few weeks undergoing a healthy consolidation. What do you see for precious metals and mining stocks right now?
Bob Moriarty: I think that gold is the antithesis of the stock market right now. When stocks went down in December gold went up and two Fridays ago we saw gold get dinged about 1% while stocks rallied. I think a lot of smart people are sensing a crash is right around the corner and I think that gold and gold mining shares will soar when the stock bubble pops.
Goldfinger: We’ve received quarterly earnings reports for many of the world’s largest mining companies and generally speaking they have been quite poor; BHP disappointed, Freeport lowered guidance, Barrick didn’t impress with higher than expected costs, etc. We are starting to see a trend of increasing costs across the mining sector – even a massive miner like Barrick Gold reported US$3.00 per pound all-in sustaining costs (AISC) for copper production which means that Barrick is losing money mining copper on an all-in cost basis. While their cash costs are considerably lower (around US$2.00/lb) which means they won’t be reducing production anytime soon, the fact is that many global copper producers aren’t really incentivized to find new sources of copper production with copper prices sitting at US$2.65/lb.
Bob Moriarty: Here’s the deal, prices go from extreme highs to extreme lows. The prices of commodities will often go below the cost of production and people will shut projects down which will help commodity prices go back up again. The cost of labor has gone up while grades keep dropping, this explains why costs keep rising. Now when I see a price of copper of US$2.65/lb and I see all-in sustaining costs of US$3/lb I know we’re near a low.
Goldfinger: Considering the growing demand for electric vehicles and the rewiring of the global energy grid the future looks particularly bright for copper right now, however, you wouldn’t have guessed that by looking at the copper price chart:
The world is going to need a lot more copper over the next couple of decades. If Barrick can’t even mine the stuff profitably where are we going to find new sources of economic copper? Or I guess another way to ask that question is why aren’t copper prices a lot higher?
Bob Moriarty: It’s pretty clear to me that resource prices will have to move a lot higher and that would include base metals like copper and zinc. If copper prices remain below US$3/lb we simply won’t have enough supply to meet demand and prices will skyrocket higher in a very short period of time.
Goldfinger: Do you have any comments on the big gold producer mergers we have seen recently (Barrick and Randgold, Goldcorp and Newmont)? Do these mega-mergers have any impact upon the juniors and are we likely to see even more M&A within the gold sector in 2019?
Bob Moriarty: In general this trend is good for the juniors because the majors do not have exploration departments anymore, most of their new projects have to come from juniors. If metals prices go the way I think they will this year we will see more and more M&A throughout the year. You have to remember that majors like to acquire exploration & developments projects when prices are high and/or rising – nobody is going to make a big copper project acquisition at $2.65/lb but you can be certain that at $3.65/lb we will have more takeovers.
Goldfinger: One of my themes for 2019 is outperformance by the mid-tier gold producers and developers. One of the key catalysts to drive this outperformance should be M&A, with majors acquiring the most attractive mid-tiers while we will see mid-tiers combining with one another to create larger companies that will be treated better by the market, due to increased synergies and better cost structures.
Do you agree that we will see a lot of consolidation among mid-tiers in 2019?
Bob Moriarty: There has to be more consolidation in the sector, they have no choice. When you mine you are constantly consuming your young so you either have to explore and make new discoveries to replace the ounces you’re producing (read consuming) or you have to use M&A to replace reserves. Right now we aren’t seeing much exploration and certainly not much exploration success so the mid-tiers and majors have no choice but to merge with one another.
The big mergers that we’ve seen are also designed to make the companies more efficient and to lower costs per ounce. They should be more efficient and they should have lower costs, it’s not excusable for a major gold mining company to have all-in costs of over US$1,200 per ounce.
Goldfinger: The CEOs of Barrick and Newmont have stated publicly that they are no longer in the business of growth at all costs, they are going to manage their companies with an eye to the bottom line and clearly these recent mega-mergers help to achieve that objective.
Bob Moriarty: One of things that I don’t hear mentioned very often is that since 2007 the financial mismanagement by the global central banks has caused so many whipsaws in commodity prices that it has made it very hard to run a large commodity producer. How can you run an oil company when oil is $140 one day and then $35 the next day?
We need to get back to financial sanity and I believe we are seeing the gold mining sector get back to financial sanity with a focus on the bottom line.
Goldfinger: At the end of 2018 we had a brief stock market panic, let’s call it the Christmas Eve 2018 panic, you had been calling for a market crash and while I wouldn’t call it a crash it was definitely a serious panic. Is that it? Or was that just a tremor before the real crash happens?
Bob Moriarty: The last time we spoke I predicted a turnaround in stocks and then I wrote a post stating as much on Christmas Eve. Stocks have basically moved straight up for the last month and I still believe we have a monster crash coming. It could start next week or 1-2 months from now, but it is coming. December was the end of the beginning, we’ve just seen the previews of the real movie. The financial system is so warped that when the crash comes it’s going to the greatest financial tsunami in history. The action since Christmas Eve up until now is just a dead-cat bounce which helps to build up some more complacency before the real downturn begins.
Goldfinger: It’s more evident than ever to me that we are in a central bank controlled financial system and this was clearly evident when the Fed quickly backpedaled after New Year’s indicating they would be “patient” with regard to any further rate hikes. The market took this to mean that there wouldn’t be another hike for at least six months and that any hike would be well telegraphed far in advance.
Meanwhile, we’re seeing a lot of evidence that global economic growth has been deteriorating and there are few indications that this trend will change anytime soon. Precious metals and gold in particular could be in a sweet spot as global central banks begin easing (after a couple years of tightening via rate hikes and balance sheet shrinkage) against the backdrop of weakening economic growth and an unusually daunting set of global macro uncertainties. Price action in precious metals has also been quite constructive since August of last year while sentiment has remained relatively muted and institutional exposure to gold and silver continues to be virtually non-existent.
With the US dollar looking like it’s about to turn lower after a strong performance in 2018, gold in US dollar terms is poised to perform exceptionally well in 2019. It feels like conditions are ripe for a stellar year for precious metals in 2019.
Bob Moriarty: I think you’re onto something there and there’s some data that’s shown that gold has been making record highs in almost every other currency other than the US dollar. What I see happening is the stock market beginning to crash in the next couple of months which will cause the Fed to panic and reimplement QE-infinity which will weigh heavily on the dollar and in turn turbo-charge precious metals and other hard assets.
There are tremendous forces building up across the world right now that will eventually result in a massive explosion. Let me give you an example, I just wrote a piece about the yellow vests in France. Did you know that there are now protests going on in more than 30 countries around the world? Yellow vest protests.
Goldfinger: No, I didn’t know that. The Gilets-Jaunes (yellow vests) are a symptom of a bigger problem. The elite and ruling classes have ripped off the system and left the common working class people paying for their excesses and the excesses of central banks that they have managed to profit from.
What do you think about the FBI dawn raid and arrest of Roger Stone?
Bob Moriarty: We’re in never never land, we’ve got the FBI and the DOJ trying to say who the President of the United States should be. This is treason being carried about by government law enforcement agencies. This is the most bizarre thing in American history, i’ve never seen anything like it. And then you have incidences like the one with the Kentucky high school kids at the Lincoln Memorial where the leftists and left-stream media are trying to completely distort reality and it can only end in tragedy. There is going to be a revolution/civil war in the United States and it is going to spread worldwide. There are yellow vest protests in China and Poland and around the world. They’re even protesting in Canada! Who the heck protests in Canada?!!
Goldfinger: Trump caved in on the government shutdown last week after 35 days of shutting down the federal government. What was accomplished through this government shutdown and can Trump really build a wall via emergency order?
Bob Moriarty: Nothing at all. Trump tried to show Pelosi how much power he had and he did. He has next to none. The whole wall issue is a circus side show. We have had open borders for a hundred years and we somehow survived. Fifty years ago I would go dove hunting in Mexico and you could wave at the customs guys as you passed through.
Goldfinger: I read a statistic the other day that the US has US$122 Trillion of unfunded liabilities which equates to 564% of Fiscal 2018 GDP. To fund these unfunded liabilities would require 10% of GDP for more than 56 years. The debt pile that has built up around the world, particularly in the US, is so large that it will never be repaid. I don’t think these massive government liabilities were ever meant to be repaid.
Bob Moriarty: You’re right, it will never be repaid and it was never intended to be repaid. When you were a kid did you ever blow up a balloon at a party?
Goldfinger: Yes, of course.
Bob Moriarty: I want you to imagine the biggest balloon you’ve ever seen and you start blowing into it, you keep blowing into it, and it keeps expanding, what is going to eventually happen?
Goldfinger: Eventually it’s going to pop!
Bob Moriarty: No shit! If you understand balloons then you understand debt bubbles. You can keep blowing into that balloon but you can be sure that if you keep blowing into it then it’s going to pop. The same way that if we keep inflating the debt bubble you can be sure that it’s going to pop one day and the consequences will be like nothing you or I have ever seen before. One day grandma is going to go try to cash her social security check and the bank is going to tell her the check bounced. Want to see a panic? That will be a real panic.
Goldfinger: One more topic before we wrap up, we’ve talked about a few companies recently including Westhaven Ventures (TSX-V:WHN), Irving Resources (CSE:IRV), and Novo Resources (TSX-V:NVO). Do you have any comments or updates on these stories?
Bob Moriarty: Novo is everything i’ve been saying for the last six years and they are making wonderful progress. Novo CEO Quinton Hennigh is also Chairman of the Board of a company called Miramont (CSE:MONT) that literally just started drilling some attractive targets in Peru and that one is going to be a home run. Quinton is also involved with Irving Resources and they are about to start drilling on Hokkaido Island in Japan.
Westhaven delivered some nice intercepts recently and notwithstanding the short term market gyrations I believe that Shovelnose is a great project that will eventually be a mine.
Goldfinger: So Irving is about to start drilling within the next couple of weeks?
Bob Moriarty: Yes, and they will announce it to the market when they do begin.
Goldfinger: I posted a couple of charts of gold and silver recently illustrating a positive outlook for both metals. What is sentiment telling you here? Is there room for silver to get up to $17 and gold up above $1350 before we have the next correction?
Gold (Weekly)
Silver (Weekly)
Bob Moriarty: I’m ok at predicting price direction but hopeless at predicting price. We have had a bottom in silver, gold and platinum. Palladium has gotten pretty toppy. If and when the Fed reinstates QE, you are going to want to hold precious metals.
Well that sums it up succinctly; we’ve made a bottom in precious metals and the growing global debt tsunami increasingly makes precious metals a compelling asset for investors to hold. Bob doesn’t proclaim to be a market timer, nevertheless his calls at key market turning points are among the best i’ve ever seen. I believe him when he says the dead-cat bounce in large cap US equities is coming to an end very soon. As always, we’d like to thank Bob for his time and insights. Until next time…
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 29, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Allegiant Gold Ltd. (“ALLEGIANT”) (AUAU:TSX-V) (AUXXF:OTCQX) is pleased to report that drilling has commenced at its Monitor Hills gold project in Nevada. ALLEGIANT is drilling a total of six “discovery potential” projects located principally in the world-class gold mining jurisdiction of Nevada, over a 10-12-month period to approximately June 2019. The drilling campaign was initiated at the Red Hills project in August 2018; Monitor Hills is the 4th project to be drilled.
Monitor Hills is 100% owned by ALLEGIANT and is located approximately 35km east-southeast of Tonopah, Nevada. ALLEGIANT began drilling at Monitor Hills in late January 2019; 10-12 rotary drill holes, totaling up to 2,150 meters are planned. Drilling is focused on geochemical gold anomalies determined by surface sampling.
ALLEGIANT performed detailed geologic mapping, completed grid geochemical surveys, and collected over 250 samples of outcrop and float at Monitor Hills. Surface sampling identified eight new target areas where gold values in outcrop exceed 1 g/t gold. Several gold anomalies (values from 20-245 ppb gold) were identified in mostly covered areas that are up to 300 metres long and 100 metres wide.
The target at Monitor Hills is Carlin-type gold mineralization in Cambrian and Ordovician sedimentary rocks. Gold occurs in replacement silicification (jasperoid) of carbonate rocks, or along iron-stained fault zones. The mineralized faults trend mainly north, but northeast and northwest trending structures are also mineralized. A buried Tertiary diorite intrusive body, believed to be shallow under blow sand and sand dunes, occurs just west and southwest of the claim block.
A geology map showing the location of proposed drill sites can be viewed at the following link:
www.allegiantgold.com/nr/2019-01-29-map.pdf
Qualified Person
Andy Wallace is a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG) with the American Institute of Professional Geologists and is a Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Mr. Wallace has reviewed and approved the technical content of this press release.
ABOUT ALLEGIANT
ALLEGIANT owns 100% of 12 highly-prospective drill-ready gold projects in the United States, 9 of which are located in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of Nevada. ALLEGIANT is one of the most active explorers in the gold sector; three projects with “discovery” potential have been drilled since August 2018, and at least four more are planned to be drilled in 2019. ALLEGIANT’s flagship Eastside project hosts a large and expanding gold resource, is district scale, and is located in an area of excellent infrastructure. Preliminary metallurgical testing indicates that both oxide and sulphide gold mineralization at Eastside is amenable to heap leaching.
Further information regarding ALLEGIANT can be found at www.allegiantgold.com
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,
Robert F. Giustra
Chairman
For more information contact:
Investor Relations
(604) 634-0970 or
1-888-818-1364
ir@allegiantgold.com
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Certain statements and information contained in this press release constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable U.S. securities laws and “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, which are referred to collectively as “forward-looking statements”. The United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a “safe harbor” for certain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements and information regarding possible events, conditions or results of operations that are based upon assumptions about future economic conditions and courses of action. All statements and information other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “seek”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “budget”, “plan”, “estimate”, “continue”, “forecast”, “intend”, “believe”, “predict”, “potential”, “target”, “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” and similar words or phrases (including negative variations) suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. Forward-looking statements in this and other press releases include, but are not limited to statements and information regarding: Allegiant’s property holding costs savings or income generated from optioning out certain properties; Allegiant’s drilling and exploration plans for its properties, including anticipated costs and timing thereof; the potential of hosting good grade gold mineralization or expansion; Allegiant’s belief with respect to North Brown anomalies and the related transportation of mineralized fragments, including the discovery of the source of the mineralized breccia fragments; Allegiant’s plans for growth through exploration activities, acquisitions or otherwise; and expectations regarding future maintenance and capital expenditures, working capital requirements; and Barrian’s plan to complete an initial public offering and its acquisition of certain properties. Such forward-looking statements are based on a number of material factors and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results, to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Some of the known risks and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements are described in the sections entitled “Risk Factors” in Allegiant’s Listing Application, dated January 24, 2018, as filed with the TSX Venture Exchange and available on SEDAR under Allegiant’s profile at www.sedar.com. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Allegiant undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements included in this press release if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as otherwise required by applicable law.
TORONTO and NUCLA, Colo., Jan. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. (CSE:WUC) (WSTRF) (“Western” or the ”Company”) is pleased to announce it finished eighth (8th) on the 2019 OTCQX® Best 50, a ranking of top performing companies traded on the OTCQX Best Market.
George Glasier, Western’s CEO, commented, “We are pleased to be recognized by OTC Markets and our shareholders, who during 2018 confirmed the substantial value of Western’s vanadium/uranium resource and near-term developed mines. Last year’s efforts have enhanced the Company’s opportunity set by positioning Western to re-open the Sunday Mine Complex which will catalyze vanadium and uranium operations. We look forward to a great 2019 and the continued pursuit of enhancing long-term shareholder value.”
The OTCQX Best 50 is an annual ranking of the top 50 U.S. and international companies traded on the OTCQX market. The ranking is calculated based on an equal weighting of one-year total return and average daily dollar volume growth in the previous calendar year. Companies in the 2019 OTCQX Best 50 were ranked based on their performance during calendar year 2018. For the complete 2019 OTCQX Best 50, please visit: https://www.otcmarkets.com/files/2019_OTCQX_Best_50.pdf.
The OTCQX Best Market offers transparent and efficient trading of established, investor-focused U.S. and global companies. To qualify for the OTCQX market, companies must meet high financial standards, follow best practice corporate governance, demonstrate compliance with U.S. securities laws and have a professional third-party sponsor introduction. The companies found on OTCQX are distinguished by the integrity of their operations and diligence with which they convey their qualifications.
About Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. is a Colorado based uranium and vanadium conventional mining company focused on low cost near-term production of uranium and vanadium in the western United States, and development and application of ablation mining technology.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS AND CAUTIONARY NOTE
This news release may contain forward-looking statements that are based on the Company’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding its business and the economic environment in which it operates. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to control or predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements and readers should not place undue reliance on such statements. Statements speak only as of the date on which they are made.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
George Glasier, President and CEO; 970-864-2125; gglasier@western-uranium.com
Robert Klein, Chief Financial Officer; 908-872-7686; rklein@western-uranium.com
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Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – January 28, 2019) – EMX Royalty Corporation (TSXV: EMX) (NYSE American: EMX) (the “Company” or “EMX”) is pleased to announce Boreal Metals Corp.’s (“Boreal”) recent diamond drill results and the discovery of a high grade zone of zinc-silver-lead-gold mineralization at EMX’s Gumsberg royalty property. EMX is a royalty holder on the Gumsberg project, and currently owns a 9.4% equity interest in Boreal. Gumsberg is located in the Bergslagen mining district of southern Sweden. The drill results include 11.00 meters averaging 5.90% zinc, 239.0 g/t silver, 2.51% lead, and 0.96 g/t gold in hole GUM-18-003, and 11.01 meters averaging 7.45% zinc, 275.1 g/t silver, 2.65% lead, and 0.77 g/t gold in hole GUM-18-004 (true widths estimated at 50% of reported interval lengths). EMX congratulates Boreal on its new high grade discovery, termed the South Zone, and looks forward to further advancement of the Company’s Gumsberg royalty interests.
Boreal reported results from the first four holes of its recently completed nine hole, 1,620.8 meter winter drill program, including GUM-18-003 and GUM-18-004, which intersected South Zone massive sulfide mineralization east and west of previously reported hole BM-17-005 (10.94 meters averaging 16.97% zinc, 656.7 g/t silver, 8.52% lead, and 0.76 g/t gold; true width estimated at 20-50% of reported interval length). The South Zone occurs near the historic Östra Silvberg mine, and is currently delineated as 130 meters of eastward plunging mineralization that remains open for expansion to the east and at depth. Holes GUM-18-001 and GUM-18-002, drilled west of the South Zone, did not return significant intercepts. GUM-18-001 terminated when it drilled into an unmapped mine working, and GUM-18-002 deviated from plan and failed to intersect the target horizon.
Boreal reported that additional assays pending from the remaining holes of the winter campaign are expected in the coming weeks. Please see Boreal’s news release dated January 28, 2019 for further details, and Appendix 1 of this news release for a table of drill results reported by Boreal.
EMX has a significant equity interest in Boreal, as well as its subsidiary company Boreal Energy Metals Corp. (“BEMC”), that resulted from the sale of Gumsberg and other royalty generation properties in Sweden and Norway[1]. EMX retains uncapped 3% net smelter return (NSR) royalty interests on each of the properties sold to Boreal and BEMC[2], including the Gumsberg project, and will receive annual advance royalty (AAR) payments and other considerations from the sale of the projects.
The Boreal agreements are an excellent example of EMX’s execution of the royalty generation aspect of the Company’s business model. EMX leveraged in-country geologic and business development expertise to acquire prospective properties on open ground, built value through low cost work programs and targeting, and partnered the projects for retained royalty interests, equity interests, and AAR payments. This business strategy has provided EMX with substantial share equity in Boreal and BEMC, exposure to exploration and discovery upside at no additional cost, and the potential for future royalty payments upon the commencement of production.
EMX continues to build its portfolio of precious metal, base metal, and cobalt properties in Scandinavia. Many new properties are available for partnership. Please see www.EMXroyalty.com for more information.
Dr. Eric P. Jensen, CPG, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and employee of the Company, has reviewed, verified and approved the disclosure of the technical information contained in this news release.
About EMX. EMX leverages asset ownership and exploration insight into partnerships that advance our mineral properties, with EMX receiving pre-production payments and retaining royalty interests. EMX complements its royalty generation initiatives with royalty acquisitions and strategic investments.
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For further information contact:
David M. Cole
President and Chief Executive Officer
Phone: (303) 979-6666
Email: Dave@EMXroyalty.com
Scott Close
Director of Investor Relations
Phone: (303) 973-8585
Email: SClose@EMXroyalty.com
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Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain “forward looking statements” that reflect the Company’s current expectations and projections about its future results. These forward-looking statements may include statements regarding perceived merits of properties, exploration results and budgets, mineral reserves and resource estimates, work programs, capital expenditures, timelines, strategic plans, market prices for precious and base metal, or other statements that are not statements of fact. When used in this news release, words such as “estimate,” “intend,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “will”, “believe”, “potential” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, which, by their very nature, are not guarantees of the Company’s future operational or financial performance, and are subject to risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause the Company’s actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors may include, but are not limited to: unavailability of financing, failure to identify commercially viable mineral reserves, fluctuations in the market valuation for commodities, difficulties in obtaining required approvals for the development of a mineral project, increased regulatory compliance costs, expectations of project funding by joint venture partners and other factors.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this news release or as of the date otherwise specifically indicated herein. Due to risks and uncertainties, including the risks and uncertainties identified in this news release, and other risk factors and forward-looking statements listed in the Company’s MD&A for the nine month period that ended on September 30, 2018 (the “MD&A”), and the most recently filed Form 20-F for the year that ended on December 31, 2017, actual events may differ materially from current expectations. More information about the Company, including the MD&A, the 20-F and financial statements of the Company, is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the SEC’s EDGAR website at www.sec.gov.
Appendix 1
Drill results reported in Boreal’s January 28, 2019 news release.
| Hole ID |
From Meters |
To Meters |
Length Meters |
Zn % |
Ag g/t |
Pb % |
Au g/t |
| GUM-18-001 | No significant intercepts; intersected previously unidentified mine stope. | ||||||
| GUM-18-002 | No significant intercepts; geological interpretations suggest hole failed to reach the targeted horizon. | ||||||
| GUM-18-003 | 105.00 | 116.00 | 11.00 | 5.90 | 239.00 | 2.51 | 0.96 |
| Including | 105.00 | 108.00 | 3.00 | 5.71 | 386.00 | 2.30 | 2.33 |
| and | 109.65 | 111.10 | 1.45 | 23.78 | 666.48 | 9.37 | 1.72 |
| and | 113.00 | 114.00 | 1.00 | 4.73 | 222.00 | 2.83 | 0.70 |
| and | 114.80 | 116.00 | 1.20 | 6.96 | 227.00 | 3.49 | 0.31 |
| GUM-18-004 | 162.16 | 173.17 | 11.01 | 7.45 | 275.12 | 2.65 | 0.77 |
| Including | 162.16 | 164.18 | 2.02 | 11.09 | 313.00 | 3.61 | 0.76 |
| and | 165.28 | 166.18 | 0.90 | 8.93 | 403.00 | 3.62 | 1.17 |
| and | 165.28 | 168.50 | 3.22 | 8.57 | 343.39 | 3.68 | 1.52 |
| and | 169.45 | 172.25 | 2.80 | 11.05 | 429.14 | 3.25 | 0.70 |
True widths are estimated to be 50% of reported interval lengths.
Statement of Quality Control, Quality Assurance and Core Handling Protocols reported in Boreal’s January 28, 2019 news release.
Drill core is logged and prepped for sampling before submittal to ALS in Malå, Sweden where it is cut, bagged and prepped for analysis. Accredited control samples (blanks and accredited standards) are inserted into the sample intervals regularly. Samples are dried (if necessary), weighed, crushed (70% < 2mm), and riffle split into two fractions. One is retained (coarse reject) and the other is pulverized to 85% < 75µm. Pulps are analyzed by ultra-trace ICP-MS (ME-MS41) and ICP-AES Au-Pt-Pd (PGM-ICP23). Over detection limit samples are reanalyzed using ore grade ICP-AES by aqua regia (ME-OG46) or by AAS in the case of high grade zinc (Zn-AAORE).
[1] See EMX news releases dated November 22, 2016, January 16, 2018, February 9, 2018 and April 11, 2018.
[2] Boreal and BEMC retain a right to purchase 1% of the NSR royalty on individual projects by paying EMX CDN $2,500,000 in cash and shares within five years of the closing date.
To view the source version of this press release, please visit https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/42487
VANCOUVER , Jan. 28, 2019 /CNW/ – Mirasol Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: MRZ, OTCPK: MRZLF) (the “Company” or “Mirasol“) is pleased to report the signing of binding letter agreement (the “Agreement“) with Newcrest International Pty Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Newcrest Mining Limited (NCM.AX)(“NCM“), for an Option to Farm-in on the Gorbea High-Sulfidation Epithermal (HSE) gold projects (the “Project“) in Chile (Figure 1).
Mirasol’s CEO Stephen Nano stated: “Newcrest is the ideal partner for our Gorbea projects. Subject to drill permitting, Newcrest will this year fund drill testing of two, large Mio-Pliocene belt HSE Au+Ag projects at Gorbea and under a separate agreement, at the Altazor project in northern Chile “.
The Gorbea Agreement comprises a package of projects totaling 26,684 ha, including the Atlas Au+Ag and the Titan Au (Cu) lead properties, located in the Mio-Pliocene age mineral belt of northern Chile. NCM has the right to acquire, in multiple stages, up to 75% of the Gorbea Project by completing a series of exploration and development milestones and making staged option payments to Mirasol. NCM has committed to spend a minimum of US$4 million and to complete a minimum of 3,000 m of drilling over an initial 18-month period. NCM will operate the exploration program at Gorbea.
NCM and Mirasol are working collaboratively to advance the drill permitting process at Gorbea and upgrade the exploration camp ahead of the planned Q1 2019 restart of the exploration program that will initially focus on the Atlas project, including detailed re-mapping, alteration vectoring studies, 60 line-km of CSAMT geophysics, and diamond core drilling.
Terms of the Agreement
Option phase:
- US$100,000 cash payment upon signing the Agreement;
- NCM’s minimum commitment is to spend US$4 million and drill a minimum of 3,000m in the first 18 months of the exploration program;
- NCM will operate the Project and will receive a 5% management fee; and
- At the end of the Option phase, NCM will have the right to exercise the Farm-in phase of the Agreement.
Farm-in phase:
- Stage 1: NCM will make a cash payment to Mirasol of US$500,000 , and will have the right to earn 51% of the Project over a 4.5-year period (total 6 years) by spending an additional US$15 million (total US$19 million ), which includes a minimum drilling commitment of 6,000 m to be completed within the first 2 years;
- Stage 2: If NCM elects to proceed to Stage 2 of the Farm-in, it will make a cash payment to Mirasol of US$650,000 and have the right to earn 65% of the Project over an additional 1-year period (total 7 years), by funding the delivery of a positive preliminary economic assessment, in accordance with NI 43-101, on a resource of not less than 1 million ounces of gold at a cut-off grade of 0.30 grams per tonne (g/t);
- Stage 3: If NCM elects to proceed to Stage 3 of the Farm-in, it will have the right to earn 75% of the Project over an additional 2-year period (total 9 years) by funding the lesser of either: (i) additional expenditures of US$100 million ; or (ii) the delivery of a positive bankable[1] Feasibility Study, in accordance with NI 43-101;
- Stage 4: After completion of Stage 3, Mirasol can elect to: (i) contribute its proportionate 25% share of further development expenditures, (ii) exercise a one-time equity conversion option to convert up to 10% of its equity into a NSR royalty at a rate of 2.5% equity per 0.5% NSR royalty (max 2% NSR royalty) and then contribute funding to advance the Company’s remaining Project equity interest; or (iii) dilute. The rate of royalty dilution (up to 2% and triggered upon dilution of its interest to 10%) will be adjusted based on the percentage royalty acquired as part of the equity conversion option. NCM will hold a 0.5% NSR buyback right at fair market value exercisable on the conversion royalty or the dilution royalty.
After meeting the minimum commitment in the Option phase, NCM may terminate the Agreement at any time without liability. In the event that NCM should complete Stage 1, but elect not to proceed to Stage 2, NCM’s 51% interest shall be adjusted to a 49% interest. If NCM completes Stage 2, but elects not to proceed to Stage 3, the 65% interest shall be adjusted to 60% and the parties may agree to halt further exploration or continue and contribute in proportion to their interests or be diluted.
The Agreement also contains other customary terms, including extension rights to increase the duration of each stage in return for cash payments to Mirasol, and pre-emptive rights provisions should either party elect to sell its interest in the Project.
The Gorbea Project
The Gorbea Project comprises a package of nine projects totaling 26,684 ha, including the Atlas Au+Ag and the Titan Au (Cu) projects, located in the Mio-Pliocene age mineral belt of northern Chile. Mirasol has completed and reported (news release January 7, 2018 ) the results of an integrated analysis of the extensive Atlas database generated from exploration expenditures in excess of US$ 8 million completed under a prior joint venture agreement. The previous exploration identified a significant body of HSE gold mineralization at the Atlas project, which returned a drill intercept of 114 m grading 1.07 g/t Au, including 36 m grading 2.49 g/t Au (news release September 11, 2017 ). However, the scale of the Atlas Au+Ag system, combined with the relatively modest amount of exploration drilling to date ( 10,499 m in 26 holes) and the range of priority targets identified, highlights the Project as a large, under-explored HSE system, requiring further drill testing for potential large tonnage bulk minable Au+Ag mineralization.
About Newcrest Mining Limited
Newcrest is one of the world’s largest gold mining companies, operating four mines in Australia and the Asia – Pacific regions. Newcrest has extensive experience developing and operating successful underground and open pit mines in culturally and geographically diverse environments. Newcrest seeks to identify and secure large mineral districts, or provinces, in order to establish long term mining operations.
About Mirasol Resources Ltd
Mirasol is a premier project generation company that is focused on the discovery and development of profitable precious metal and copper deposits, operating via a hybrid joint venture and self-funded drilling business model. Strategic joint ventures with precious metal producers have enabled Mirasol to maintain a tight share structure while advancing its priority projects that are focused in high-potential regions in Chile and Argentina. Mirasol employs an integrated generative and on-ground exploration approach, combining leading-edge technologies and experienced exploration geoscientists to maximize the potential for discovery. Mirasol is in a strong financial position and has a significant portfolio of exploration projects located within the Tertiary Age Mineral belts of Chile and the Jurassic age Au+Ag district of Santa Cruz Province Argentina .
Stephen Nano , President and CEO of Mirasol, has approved the technical content of this news release. Mr Nano is a Chartered Professional geologist and Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (CP and FAusIMM) and is a Qualified Person under NI 43 -101.
Under the terms of the pervious Gorbea Joint Venture (terminated in April 2018 ), all exploration was managed by the then joint venture partner. Pre-joint venture exploration on the projects was managed by Stephen C. Nano , who is the Qualified Person under NI 43-101. Exploration data generated from the previous Gorbea Joint Venture program was reviewed and validated by Mirasol prior to release. The technical interpretations presented here are those of Mirasol Resources Ltd.
Mirasol applies industry standard exploration sampling methodologies and techniques. All geochemical rock and drill samples are collected under the supervision of the company’s geologists in accordance with industry practice. Geochemical assays are obtained and reported under a quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) program. Samples are dispatched to an ISO 9001:2008 accredited laboratory in Chile for analysis. Assay results from surface rock, channel, trench, and drill core samples may be higher, lower or similar to results obtained from surface samples due to surficial oxidation and enrichment processes or due to natural geological grade variations in the primary mineralization.
Forward Looking Statements: The information in this news release contains forward looking statements that are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in our forward looking statements. Factors that could cause such differences include: changes in world commodity markets, equity markets, costs and supply of materials relevant to the mining industry, change in government and changes to regulations affecting the mining industry. Forward-looking statements in this release include statements regarding future exploration programs, operation plans, geological interpretations, mineral tenure issues and mineral recovery processes. Although we believe the expectations reflected in our forward looking statements are reasonable, results may vary, and we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Mirasol disclaims any obligations to update or revise any forward looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable law.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Major Opportunity Developing in Platinum
By Kevin Vecmanis
Once in a while an opportunity comes along in the markets where the dislocations are so extreme and compelling that it commands one to take a calculated risk. Anytime you can say, “This is among the cheapest this asset has been in history”, there is typically a fantastic contrarian play at hand.
In February of 2016 the price of WTI Crude Oil hit ~ $25/barrel. On an inflation adjusted basis, this was among the cheapest oil had been in recorded history. I was working in the Oil Industry at the time doing engineering management, and during a lunch with the President of our company I told him I was going to buy a lot of energy equities on that fact alone. Considering the sentiment at the time (atrocious), he was skeptical. Six weeks later I had doubled my money.
Click here now. The same situation is developing in the Platinum market. This plot shows the $USD close of Platinum, with the Platinum/Copper and Platinum/Gold ratio. Platinum is at $805 as of this writing, and on an inflation-adjusted basis is among the cheapest Platinum has been in history. Priced in Gold, this the cheapest platinum has ever been. Priced in Copper, Platinum hasn’t been this cheap since 1977. The same is true of the Platinum/Silver ratio which is languising near lows last seen in 2012, and then the 1980’s before that. The Platinum/Palladium ratio is as extreme as the Platinum/Gold ratio, which is almost tied for all-time lows for the entire price history dating back to the 70’s. Priced in units of the S&P 500 it’s also languishing at the cheapest in history.
So what’s happening here? Some make the (valid) argument that shifting auto demand from combustion vehicles to electric vehicles is forcing the market to reprice the value of Platinum relative to other assets. This is fine, and I tend to agree with this assessment. However, the adaptive and non-stationary aspect of markets needs to be respected. Platinum has inalienable properties that make it a fantastic input to a lot of products and processes. The simple fact that Platinum (and Gold) are immune to oxydative damage means that if they were cheap enough we would use them in everything where a certain degree of robustness and longevity is required. In other words, at some point new use cases for Platinum will emerge that are economically viable at these price levels. This will drive a mean-reversion relative to other assets over the long-term.
Technically, Platinum is sitting right at major support that held during the 2008 crash and the 2015 low. It remains to be seen if a double-bottom will form here, or if the market will break support and jolt lower. The essence of speculation is buying what nobody wants, and selling what everybody wants. I think investors or speculators with the luxury of time would do well to accumulate platinum-based assets at this juncture.
As a matter of disclosure, we currently do not own any positions in Platinum or Platinum miners directly. We do plan to take long-positions in PPLT within the next 1-3 months.
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