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Michael Giordano Western Copper WRN-T HOLD May 28, 2013

Has the massive gold/copper Casino project in the Yukon. There was speculation earlier in the year that it would get taken over which moved the stock to over $1.50-$1.60.

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BUY
Volatile but fundamentally he likes copper going forward. Expect there will be some gradual US recovery and they will need copper. Also thinks China will continue its development, which is also electric intensive and therefore copper intensive.
COMMENT
Had an A B C correction and believes that it is over. Doesn’t know where these copper assets are but in general, copper is fine.
COMMENT
Have 17 million ounces of gold, 8 reserved and 9 inferred as well as 10 billion pounds of copper. Most likely to be taken out at a significant premium from the current price.
COMMENT
Chart shows a double top early this year but was followed by 2 lower highs giving it a descending trend line. It also broke a trend line. If there is a rally, $3 would be the maximum you would get. Use a stop loss.
BUY

Has a gold/copper deposit in the Yukon and there was recent speculation that someone was potentially looking at this as a takeover. On Boxing Day, the stock spiked up in the US and the company indicated it was not aware of anything unusual. Because it has such a large deposit, investors are looking at it again.

HOLD

(Market Call Minute.) One of the largest copper projects in the Yukon but needs serious money to advance any further.

COMMENT

A very large, but low grade deposit. If you like to play the leverage game, this is a play that people would make. It would be a decent capital project, but would take a while to permit. They would need to produce their own power. It doesn’t make much economic sense. It would need much higher copper and gold prices to be economic.

DON'T BUY

It's a big resource, a leveraged play on the copper market. Based in the Yukon, it's a volume play, but not playing the copper market now. It's a big upfront capital requirement now that'll cost $1 billion.

WAIT
It has a great management team and the Yukon is a friendly place to develop. Infrastructure is the issue. Smaller mining operations can deal with this, but lack of power and transportation are challenging. Where copper prices are, this is still too levered -- you need copper prices to go higher.