A Contrarian Signal for the Gold Sector

Welcome to Mining Stock Daily. This is your host, Trevor Hall

Today is Monday, February 8th

Gold on Friday bounced $32 from Thursday's low while silver jumped over $1. The mining stocks, with GDX as a proxy, rose 2.3%, with many junior exploration stocks jumping 5-10%. If Thursday's close on GDX holds going forward, it will complete a higher low going back to December 24th and mark the end of the precious metals sector correction that started in late August 2020. The Mining Stock Journal said that the Hulbert Gold Newsletter Sentiment Index plunged to a -22.9% reading after Thursday's sector beating. The HGNSI has been a very reliable contrarian indicator for the last 20 years and only 5.6% of the daily readings have been lower than -22.9% since 2000, the majority of which occurred during the 2011-late 2015 bear cycle. The Mining Stock Journal also commented that, assuming another bull move in gold and silver is beginning,  the mining stocks, especially the risky junior exploration stocks, have rarelybeen as undervalued as they are now relative to the price of gold and silver over the last 20 years.

 

We’ll get to the news out of the miners and explorers here in just a quick moment, but first a quick mention of today’s sponsor. 

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And here’s what you need to know this morning.

Great Bear Resources has reported results from its ongoing 2021 exploration program at its 100% owned flagship Dixie Project in the Red Lake district of Ontario. Results reported today included 13.38 g/t gold over 18.15 meters, and also included a a 5.5 meter interval grading 38.39 g/t gold. Other results included 1.85 meters of 63.51 g/t gold. It's worth emphasizing that all of this drilling is within the same continuous gold zone along more than 4 kilometres of strike length, which remains open to extension in all directions, and is present from bedrock surface. Great Bear trades on the TSX Venture with GBR and on the OTCQX with GTBAF. News Release

GR Silver reported underground and surface drill results this morning from the Plomosas Mine Area in Sinaloa, Mexico. Highlights today included 1,181 g/t silver equivalent over 5.4 meters and 928 g/t silver equivalent over 8.6 meters. The underground drilling program is targeting high-grade Ag-Au epithermal mineralization and bulk tonnage-style polymetallic mineralization in the Plomosas Mine Area, with the objective to delineate high margin precious and base metals mineralization for planned resource estimation. GR Silver trades on the Toronto Venture with GRSL and on the OTCQB with GRSLF. News Release

Banyan Gold provided results from additional diamond drill holes located in a previously untested area of the Aurex Hill Zone on the AurMac Property in the Yukon. Results included 1.11 g/t gold over 17.9 meters and .91 g/t gold over 20.5 meters. Diamond drilling at the Aurex Hill Zone in 2020 was comprised of seven (7), exploration holes designed to test a small portion of the soil anomalies previously defined by Banyan to be covering the majority of Aurex Hill. Banyan trades on the TSX Venture with BYN. News Release

Goldsource Mines shared drill results for the Ounce Hill Prospect at the Company's 100%-owned Eagle Mountain Gold Project in Guyana, South America. Newly reported results are for 5 core holes totalling 260 metres that were drilled in January 2021. Results included 20.38 g/t gold over 34 meters and 3.41 g/t gold over 24 meters. These results will not be included in the pending updated mineral resource estimate. Goldsource Mines trades on the Venture Exchange with GXS and on the OTCQB with GXSFF. News Release

Revival Gold published results of an Economic Impact Study for the Beartrack-Arnett project in Idaho. The company highlights a $1.2 billion cumulative contribution to Idaho State GDP, 858 annual full-time jobs on average, and over $200 million of cumulative contribution to Idaho State and Federal tax revenues. Revival Gold trades on the TSX Venture with RVG and on the OTCQB with RVLGF. News Release

Adventus Mining and Salazar Resources shared infill drilling results from th eEl Domo deposit located within the Curipamba project in central Ecuador. Results reported today included 16.96 metes of 13.61% copper equivalent and 12.79 meters of 9.7% copper equivalent. All results from the current infill definition drilling program will be used to update the Mineral Resource estimate for the El Domo deposit in 2021. The updated Mineral Resource estimate will be part of the ongoing feasibility study for the development of the El Domo deposit. 

Arizona Metals announced a second drill rig was mobilized to the Kay Mine property. This addition will accelerate drilling under the fully-funded Phase 2 program, which will consist of a minimum of 11,000 m in 29 core drill holes. This expansion drill program will test for new VMS lenses in anticlinal hinge zones identified to the north and south of recent drilling, as well as the up-plunge and down-plunge extensions of known hinges. Arizona Metals trades on the TSX Venture with AMC and on the OTCQB with AZMCF. News Release

Roscan Gold announced Mr. Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan has joined the Board of Directors of Roscan, as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Venkat a Mining Executive is widely known in the gold sector, where he built an exceptional 30+ year track record leading multinational organizations through transformative change, while fostering and maintaining relationships with investors, financiers, and governments. Venkat brings an exceptional skillset in corporate finance and merger and acquisition. 

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