Trying to calculate the value here ..............16 Jan 2026 11:25
I've just been looking at a few figures here to try and get some sense of the real value of this high-grade silver prospect. Please correct me if my figures are inaccurate or I am working with a hypothesis that is faulty or flawed.
Gold is currently over $4,500/oz and silver is currently over $90/oz. So by dividing the price of gold by the price of silver, gold is 50 times more valuable than silver. So one way for silver to have an equivalent value as gold will be if the silver mineral resource is at a higher grade and at the point where the silver grade is 50 times higher than the gold grade the two would have a similar value. Does that make sense? I think it does.
Now gold grades can vary but anything above 1% is generally worth noting, especially over long distances. Anything around 2%/3% is better and when it gets to above 4% and up to 6% it is pretty sensational. Now the equivalent grades for silver to have the same value would be 50g/t (1%), 100g/t - 150g/t (2%/3%) and 200g/t - 300g/t (4%/6%).
However the grades we are getting reported here at Elizabeth Hill are way, way over these comparison figures. For a start, Hole 25WCDD001 as reported on 16th July had 21 metres at 1,047g/t Ag from 10 metres. Divide that by 50 and it is equivalent to 20.94g/t of gold. Hole 25WCDD002 reported 15 metres at 723g/t Ag from 1 metre which is equivalent to 14.46g/t Au.
Rather than look at all of the individual holes we can just take the figures from when this was in production before which are " 1.2Moz of silver was produced from just 16,830t of ore at a head grade of 2,194g/t ." Divide 2,194g/t by 50 and the silver was produced at a equivalent grade of 43.88g/t of gold. That is sensational.
Now obviously Silver is on a ginormous spike at the moment and so is gold (though not quite so much) but even if gold was to go back down by 33% and silver by 50% the gold/silver ratio would be 66 times and the 2,194g/t equivalent would be 33.24g/t - still ludicrously higher than any other gold or silver mine anywhere.
Bare in mind that the higher the grade the lower the production costs. It is far more cost effective to crush 1 ton of rock to produce 33g/t than 1g/t. And also silver does have uses and demand these days for tech, AI and solar panels whereas gold is of little real use and is almost totally valued for its intrinsic value as well as for a store of wealth.
I suppose it all depends on what sort of quantity of deposit they can find with the drill at Elizabeth Hill though for a bigger quantity they can target far lower grades than were previously mined and still have the equivalent of very, very high gold grades.
And then on top of this we have Munni Munni. I don't even know where to start on that. The Project contains a substantial historic non-JORC 2004 Mineral Resource of 24Mt at 2.9 g/t 4E PGE (2.2Moz). According to a recent podcast that was linked here that is a high grade deposit and all of the main metals are at all-time high p