Resource growth and update24 Jul 2021 13:53
What are investors expecting? Or are we going into this blind expecting pure growth?
The drilling had 2 purposes:
Upgrade the inferred Oz's to indicated
Expand the Resource in terms of Oz's
It seems pretty evident from the 8 set of assays release this far that the company look to be successful in confirming both of the above purposes. The exploration target was between 1-2 Moz based upon a depth of 100m, across numerous zones reported there have been a number of Zones returning Gold, and good grades beyond 100m. I think some follow up drilling is required at depth but the signs are all positive. The DD at Selin, soon to be announced will tell us a lot more about the story down below. The widths reported have been consistent with the historic drill results, maybe even better, as well as the grade which seems to be getting stronger with multiple high grade intercepts drilled.
When you look at the scoping study, this was based on the 265,000 Oz resource with annual production of 45,000 Oz's, returning Annual cash flow of $24m. That's staggering. I wonder when the resource is upgraded, how this "45,000 per annum" can be adjusted to suit, resulting in even higher cash flow.
I do believe we'll see substantial growth in the resource upgrade, but how much? That's anybody's guess. I believe long term Sanankoro has the potential to be a multi million Oz deposit, I'm just keeping my estimations a little measured. Like GGP & Havieron, there were a lot of whispers of an initial MRE of 10Moz+, myself included. And when the announcement was made, it raised a couple of questions as it seemed very conservative. But when you broke it down, the initial MRE was focused on a section of Havieron where the more concentrated drilling campaigns had been carried out. Over time, they'll gradually expand that 3.4Moz into what's looking evident, a Tier 1 deposit.
Will Cora use a similar approach or with an aggressive 35,000m, will they have the data in Q3/Q4 to release an absolute whopping Resource upgrade. (700Koz/800Koz/900Koz/1Moz). About half of the drilling has been concentrated on Selin(13,000m) which resource stood at 108,000 Oz, and Zone A(6,900m) 91,000oz
(And we all know what they found here, 19m@31g/t) :D --> Being followed up as we speak
All this being said, it's a very exciting time to be a shareholder here with plenty of value to be made in the near-mid term, with operations to expand beyond Sanankoro as and when finances and time permit.
Hold these tight and don't let go. Growth like no other company in the junior exploration space (AIMO) and believe this is a unique opportunity to gain entry/load up at such a cheap Market Cap
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