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Welcome to Mining Stock Daily. I’m Trevor Hall. And I’m Paul Harris.
Today is Tuesday, March 15th.
Gold and silver were smoked Monday, along with the related commodities that soared in price over the last few weeks. Gold was taken down from US$1,988 per ounce Sunday night to the $1,954 settlement price, and the downward momentum continued in early trading today. Silver was hammered from its Sunday night high of $26.30 per ounce down to its $25.25 settlement price.
The mining stocks were clocked as well, with the GDX down a little over 4%. The silver stocks were hammered anywhere from 5% to 11%. The Mining Stock Journal said there was a definitive absence of any material news that might have caused the sell-off in the precious metals. Rather, the newsletter said that both Treasury bonds across the yield curve were hammered along with the stock market, indicating that money was flowing out of all dollar-based financial assets on Monday. This would include money flowing out of Comex and LBMA paper derivative gold and silver, which are technically financial assets. There is no evidence that any material selling occurred in physical gold and silver. That said, the newsletter expects further short-term selling in paper precious metal assets to correct the technically overbought condition of the sector.
We will get to the news from the miners and explorers in a moment, but first a word about today’s sponsor.
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And here’s what you need to know this morning….
We’ll start off the morning with a curve ball….
AMC theatres, is buying 22% of Hycroft Mining and its 71,000 acre Hycroft Mine in northern Nevada. With this investment, AMC has been granted the right to appoint a representative to the Hycroft Board of Directors. AME CEO Adam Aron says “Our strategic investment being announced today is the result of our having identified a company in an unrelated industry that appears to be just like AMC of a year ago”. Eric Sprott is also investing $27.9M in cash in Hycroft in exchange for 23,408,240 units, with each unit consisting of one common share of Hycroft and one common share purchase warrant priced at $1.193. The company also implemented an “at the market offering” program by entering into an Issuance Sales Agreement with B. Riley Securities. Under the terms of the Sales Agreement, the company may from time to time to or through the Agent, acting as sales agent or principal, offer and sell shares of its Class A common stock, par value of 1/100th of a penny per share, having a gross sales price of $500 million. In 2022, Hycroft completed an Initial Assessment on the Hycroft Mine. Gold Mineral Resources at Hycroft are estimated to be 9.65 million ounces of Measured & Indicated (“M&I”) and 5.0 million ounces of Inferred. Silver Mineral Resources are estimated to be 446.0 million ounces of Measured & Indicated and 150.4 million ounces of Inferred. Hycroft trades on the Nasdaq with HYMC.
Fortuna Silver provided its maiden interfered mineral resource estimate for the Sunbird discovery located at its Séguéla gold project in Côte d'Ivoire. Fortuna estimates the Sunbird deposit contains an Inferred Mineral Resource of 3.4 million tonnes at an average grade of 3.16 g/t Au containing 350,000 gold ounces. The Inferred Mineral Resource will not materially change the existing resource estimate at Séguéla or impact its current construction plan. Sunbird is about 1.5km to the southeast of the previously reported Antenna deposit at Séguéla. Fortuna Silver trades on the NYSE with FSM and on the TSX with FVI. News Release
Collective Mining announced a discovery with its first three diamond drill holes at the Olympus Central target at its Guayabales gold project in Caldas, Colombia, with a highlight of 301.9m grading 1.11 grams per tonne gold equivalent from near surface in hole 3 with visible gold observed within a CBM vein. Olympus covers an area of 1.25km by 750m to date and there are more than 50 historical and current artisanal mines identified within the Olympus target. Drilling has not tested below the vast majority of these mines. As a result of the new discovery, Collective plans to accelerate drilling by stepping-out along the Eastern and Western Zones of mineralisation. It has three drill rigs operating as part of its minimum 20,000m program for 2022 with a fourth rig expected to commence drilling prior to the end of March. Collective Mining trades on the TSXV under CNL. News release
Marathon Gold reported the latest drill assay results from the Valentine gold project in Newfoundland in Canada. The latest drill results represent fire assay data from eighteen diamond drill holes completed as part of the 2021 in-fill drill campaign at the 1.5km long Berry deposit. Highlights include 5.06 g/t Au over 25m including 9.13 g/t Au over 11m, and 5.55 g/t Au over 6m including 14.02 g/t Au over 1m. Matt Manson, CEO of Marathon, stated in the press release this morning that the next resource estimate at Berry will be based on approximately 100,000m of drilling the company completed since November. Some 11,540m in 44 holes remain to be released. Marathon Gold trades on the TSX with MOZ. News Release
Probe Metals provided additional results from the 2021 drill programme on its Val-d’Or East Monique property in Quebec, Canada. Results from 71 holes from the 2021 resource expansion and infill drilling program revealed significant, new gold mineralization along strike and at depth in multiple zones of the former Monique open pit mine with highlights of 16m grading 6 grams per tonne and 13.2m grading 5.8g/t from shallow depths. Probe said the results of 40 holes drilled in 2021 and over 80 holes drilled since the beginning of 2022 are pending. The company has eight drills active on the Monique gold trend as part of a 150,000m drilling programme as it seeks to convert inferred resources into indicated. An updated resource, which will form the basis of the prefeasibility study, is expected to be completed in 2023. Probe Metals trades on the TSXV under PRB and on the OTCQB under PROBF. News release
Calibre Mining launched its first five-year sustainability strategy featuring responsible practices, contributions to sustainability and global challenges. The company said it will conform with the Responsible Gold Mining Principles within the World Gold Council’s three-year timeframe and during the first semester of this year it will release its 2021 sustainability report. The company said sustainability is integral to its vision and success. MSD says it is a good thing when companies like Calibre show that a serious ESG commitment is for everyone and not just for the big guys. Calibre Mining trades on the TSX under CXB and on the OTCQX under CXBMF. News release
That concludes today’s morning briefing.
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