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Gavin Graham Energold Drilling Corp. EGD-X TOP PICK Jan 13, 2012

Manufacture mining drill rigs. Just acquired a small oil/gas drilling business, mostly in the US. Of the 126 drills they have, almost all of them are gold drilling. Meters they have drilled has gone from 240,000 to 450,000 in the 9 months to September. Earnings have exploded. Put all their cash flow into building new rigs. $25 million cash in the balance sheet.
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There is a small basket of small drillers that he looks at but prefers larger and more liquid players. As the mining sector rallies, you could see substantial gains in these. Prefers Major Drilling (MDI-T).
BUY
They can do what no one else can, i.e. going into the hinterland and use labour for drilling. Likes management.
BUY ON WEAKNESS
Designed and developed a little portable mining drill that can get into tight areas. Likes it quite a bit but is a little overbought on the daily charts. Wait for a pullback.
TOP PICK
Contract mine driller with 70% being gold. Because of so many gold financing over the last while, they will have a lot of work to do. Debt-free. Has a lot of potential torque as gold mining picks up. Not widely followed and fundamentally very cheap.
BUY
Their drill rigs are very portable. People are going off into far off remote places these days. It’s not terribly expensive.
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Good crew of experienced in mine drilling. Do a lot outside the country, particularly frontier drilling. With a lot of the gold companies having raised money, they are doing a lot of drilling. Further they go a field, margins tend to increase. Virtually operating flat out. Recently did a successful issue and are all set up for mergers and takeovers.
PAST TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Oct 1/10. Up 23.43%.) Global mine driller with about 103 rigs and going to 130. Drills for a lot of juniors who have been cashed up. Further afield, the better margins because of higher risks. Has $28-$30 million in cash. Hidden asset with control of almost 7 million shares in Impact Silver (IPT-X). Would like to see this sold as they are drillers, not a silver company. A lot of potential torque as the higher gold goes, they’ll get greater market share.
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(A Top Pick Oct 1/10. Up 22%.)
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Been a nice success story. His opinion is that the commodity cycle has really played out here.