calm before storm7 Mar 2018 19:00
Mariana Resources which only had 30% stake in Hot Maden gold-copper project in northeast Turkey got acquired for �167m by Sandstorm Gold last year. The NPV and IRR of the Mariana's Hot Maden project was USD$1.37B and 153%.
NPV & IRR of ARCM's two mining projects at Slovakia and DRC where they hold 100% and 71% respectively.
Slovakia: NPV: US$145 million, IRR: 30%
DRC: NPV: US$171M, IRR: 35%
The DRC project's NPV was for 1.4m au oz resource, if they manage to increase it to 2m au oz reserve then the corresponding NPV would be over $200m, and upwards of 5M+ au to 10M+ au reserve has the potential to breach the NPV of just the DRC project to over $500m - $1B. (100g/t au on previous assay result gives an indication to the resource potential there.)
Just some interesting facts: Slovakia is a region where 1/4th of Europe's gold was produced historically which includes the epicenter Kremnica, a place where Gold was first discovered in Slovakia, and then there is DRC - the next South Africa in terms of Gold discovery potential, at Kibali Randgold operates one of the biggest producing gold mine in Africa. The Kibali operations produces upwards of 500+k au oz annually.
The above comment does not even include any investment potential or valuation of ARCM asset in Zambia (Zamsfort) and Eriteria (Andiamo Exploration). So considering all these factors, the market cap of under �6m looks deep discounted for the size of the projects that ARCM has got.
ARCM has long term potential to breach �50M-100m market cap - it would be interesting to see how the story unfolds here considering that the current directors have previously sold an DRC mining project for over $120M.
DYOR