Morning Briefing: Newmont Looking to Acquire Newcrest
Welcome to Mining Stock Daily. I’m Trevor Hall. And I’m Paul Harris.
Today is Monday February 6th.
Last week gold touched $1975 per ounce on Thursday intra-day then abruptly spiraled $100 lower to close at $1876 by the end of the day Friday. Similarly, silver tagged $24.75 per ounce intra-day Thursday and subsequently plunged $2.34 to close Friday at $22.41. The Mining Stock Journal believes the price management squad had a hand in turning the metals lower using Comex futures in the face of a subtle shift in the Fed's policy to a slightly dovish demeanor. The brunt of the price damage occurred Friday during Comex paper gold and silver trading hours, when the rest of the world has closed down for the weekend. The Mining Stock Journal pointed out that Friday is often a negative day for gold and silver prices. The newsletter, however, suggests that this may be the start of the correction from the torrid move in Q4 2022 it has been looking for, adding that a pullback will facilitate the next move higher for the sector.
The mining stocks were also smashed at the end of last week. From Wednesday's close to Friday's close, the GDX was spanked for 7.2% and closed $30.32, just above its 50 day moving average. The Mining Stock Journal said it would not be surprised to see GDX pull back to its 200 day moving average, which was $28.25 on Friday.
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….
Newmont submitted a non-binding proposal to acquire Australia’s Newcrest Mining in a US$16.9 billion all-stock deal, with a 21% premium. Its 0.380 Newmont shares per Newcrest share offer which would result in the combined company being 30% owned by Newcrest and 70% owned by Newmont shareholders. The deal would give Newmont Newcrest’s world class Cadia asset in Australia, an expanding footprint in North America and Papua New Guinea, plus growth potential in copper. Newmont (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT). Newcrest Mining ASX:NCM. News release
Elemental Altus Royalties is to acquire 19 royalties from First Mining Gold for US$3.5 million in cash and $1.5 million in stock, which it said significantly expanding its development pipeline. The royalties include a 2% NSR on the development stage Pickle Crow gold project in Ontario, a high grade +2 million ounce gold deposit and a 1.5% NSR on the development stage Hope Brook gold project in Newfoundland. Elemental Altus Royalties (TSXV: ELE) (OTCQX: ELEMF), First Mining Gold (TSX: FF) (OTCQX: FFMGF). News release
Dolly Varden Silver reported the highest grade silver assay yet received from the Dolly Varden Property as it released the final drilling results from the 2022 season at its Kitsault Valley Project in British Columbia. Highlights from the Wolf Vein included 15.94m grading1,499 g/t Ag, 1.89% Pb, 0.46% Zn in hole 329 including a sub interval of 35cm grading 23,997 g/t Ag. Drilling more than doubled the strike length of the deposit through step outs to the north and south. The company said its priority this year will be to connect the Wolf Deposit with the Kitsol Deposit, located 1,400m to the south. Dolly Varden Silver (TSXV: DV) (OTCQX: DOLLF) News release
Osisko Mining announced a C$75 million bought deal of 24.2 million units priced at C$3.10, with half a warrant for 18 months, to advance the Windfall Project in Quebec. Faraday Copper upsized its bought deal from C$30 million to C$34.8 million, with 43.5 million shares priced at 80c to fund the purchase of a 32,000 acre ranch land package adjacent to its Copper Creek Property in Arizona, and for exploration and development. Canaccord Genuity is the lead underwriter in both deals. Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK). Faraday Copper (TSX: FDY) (OTCQX: CPPKF) News release News release
F3 Uranium has received the final uranium assay results for the remaining fall 2022 drill holes at the JR Zone on the Patterson Lake North Property. Drill hole 038 targeted up dip from hole 035 and returned 11m of 4.2% U3O8 including a high-grade 4.5 m interval averaging 9.8% U3O8, which further includes the ultra-high-grade core which assayed 22.9% over 1.5 m. Patterson Lake North property (PLN) is located just within the south-western edge of the Athabasca Basin in proximity to Fission Uranium's Triple R and NexGen Energy's Arrow deposits. F3 Uranium trades on the TSXV with FUU and on the OTCQB with FUUF. News Release
Aurion Resources reported results for 14 holes from the 2022 drilling program on the Aurion-B2Gold JV operated by B2Gold, in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt in northern Finland. The new zone of mineralization is 2km west of the Helmi discovery with highlights of 6m grading 6.25 g/t Au and 12.8m grading 0.26 g/t Au and 1.07% Cu in hole 28. Results for five 2022 drill holes are pending and drilling is continuing with three rigs and a $10.4 million budget. Aurion Resources (TSXV: AU) (OTCQX: AIRRF) B2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO) News release
Collective Mining said they recently hosted the new Vice Minister of Mines of Colombia, Giovanni Franco, to its operations in Supia, in Caldas Colombia. The Company reviewed in detail its business and social approach within the area of influence of the Guayabales and San Antonio projects as it relates to various sustainability initiatives and exploration methodologies. The company shared a video of the trip, which also included Mr. Franco’s thoughts on the trip, with a link to the video in this morning’s news release.
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