RE: Newmont acquisition of GT gold14 Mar 2021 13:41
Cyber, I posted briefly on the GT Goid figures last week sometime. Their overall resource (Indicated and Inferred combined) came to c800Mt of ore, whereas we hope BR will be 300-400Mt or even more. So GT maybe twice as big. Their Cu equivalent grades, including gold and other metals, was close to 0.5%, but that was over a year ago when copper was lower value compared to goid. I suspect the combined equivalent grade now might be closer to 0.4% - similar to what we might expect at BR. So overall BR might have half the “metal” compared to Saddle North but that doesn’t mean it’d be worth only half as much (IMO). Saddle North involves underground as well as open pit mining; sulphide as well as oxide. Also British Columbia may (?) be a more challenging environment. All that might mean more expensive mining. I calculated that the purchase price could be broadly justified if Newmont valued the Indicated resource at 2% of the metal content and 1% of the Inferred (because, logically, inferred is less certain). In the end I took comfort from my high level calcs that our hope for a 3% multiple of 2Mt Cu equivalent could be justified (if the mineral resource is fully worked up).