Today, John Kaiser and Brent Cook commented about whether MRZ-X, KNT-T, ME-T, PG-T, CGP-X, AU-X, MRZ-X, NDM-T, IZN-X, PRB-X, SCY-T, CCE-X, MTO-X, DGC-T, CGLD-X, PGD-T, AZ-T, SCY-T, GQC-X, LIO-X, NOT-X, KAT-T, NDM-T, MKR-X, NGE-X, BSX-T, MAX-T, SWY-T are stocks to buy or sell.
Markets. Something really big is underway. We are going back to a 90s style funding culture of exploration and discovery. In the last month the shift has brought it back home to him when companies started reviving projects that did not work in the past. They are now doing brute force drilling and not only hoping to hit something, but gathering a lot of geological data.
(Top Pick Mar 7/16, Up 135.48%) He thinks it is going to go a lot further in the next couple of months when we hear they have the mine lease. They are putting only a fraction of the deposit into production because demand has to develop. Any user needs reliable supply. These discoveries in Australia are a game changer. This market could explode.
Mining. He is pretty positive on the metal sector, gold prices, etc. Generally speaking, gold prices are inversely correlated with the US$, and the world’s confidence in America. We are seeing a slowly improving economy in the US and are probably going to see interest rates bumped up again. Those are both negative for gold. But the flip side of that is Trump and his administration. We are dealing with someone unstable, and the team behind him is certainly inexperienced. He is concerned that they are not going to be able to react and deal with a major global crisis, or black swan of some sort. Feels that is what is holding up gold prices even though other things would suggest that it goes down. On a more positive note, major mining companies are not finding enough gold to replace what they are mining, their reserves are depleting. They’ve cut exploration dramatically and are not finding new deposits. The place to be right now is in the very junior exploration sector with good people and legitimate projects, and that is going to do really well this coming year.
This has the Pebble deposit which has about 90 million ounces of resources, and copper to match that. It has been promoted pretty heavily as the Trump gold play, with the idea that with deregulation being easier, it will be permitted. You need to be aware that these mega projects are in the middle of nowhere in Alaska, the headwaters of the largest Salmon fisheries in North America. A difficult place to build a tailings facility. The CapX needed is $8-$12 billion. It has to include a deep-water port, a pipeline, energy, a road, plus all the infrastructure on-site. There is not enough detailed work done on this to make an assessment to decide if this is really economic or not.
Fiji is an interesting place. They have raised $85 Million last year when it was tough. If they get this thing going it will build up confidence. They are putting a relatively small scale gold mine into production while doing exploration. They should eventually get bought out.