Bob moriarty14 Dec 2024 20:18
Http://www.321gold.com/editorials/moriarty/moriarty011113.html
Now that we have a few new investors, here is an article from veteran gold investor, bob moriarty of 321gold from 2013. He visited Anza back in 2013 and reckoned it would turn out to be a mega find, bigger than continental gold up the road which sold for $1billion back in 2011 when gold was $1500.
In December I went to Colombia to visit a company named Waymar. The nice folks at Pinetree Capital had pointed out the project to me and wanted me to see it. The Anza Project and Waymar Resources (WYM-V) are the babies of Pablo Marcet. He came across the project, then belonging to Continental Gold and snapped it up. Continental Gold viewed the project as a base metals project and priced it that way. I think the terms were $3.8 million over three years, a $4 million dollar work commitment, 380,000 shares and a 2% NSR that can be bought down to 1% for $1 million. That’s for 100% ownership and it’s sweet.
Basically the market values silver and gold companies higher than base metals companies. The Anza project was a gypsum mine in Colombia where massive sulfides of lead and zinc were discovered in the mid-2000s. Continental Gold thought the project had the potential of being a VMS deposit and priced it that way. Pablo Marcet thought it might be something else. So far it looks like Continental Gold has found one more way to screw up. I think the Anza project is going to be one of the biggest gold discoveries in Colombia. Here’s why.
There are a whole bunch of factors that go into making an economic mineral deposit. I presume by now most of my readers at least understand the basics of geology. All minerals are found about everywhere. You need a concentration of a mineral to make an economic deposit. Most minerals are moved around in some sort of liquid form.
One thing that I have never mentioned and I don’t recall any other writer discussing in detail is the importance of ground preparation. If a mineralized liquid seeks lower pressure through faults or cracks in the ground, something has to create that fault or lower pressure area.
The presence of gypsum in a deposit is interesting because of the potential for an unusual form of ground preparation. You see, gypsum and anhydrite are the same mineral, calcium sulfate. Anhydrite is the solid; non-water bearing form of the mineral, gypsum is anhydrite that has been exposed to water.
When anhydrite comes into contact with water, making gypsum, it expands by 63%. When gypsum loses its water, it becomes anhydrite again and shrinks by 42%. So in a calcium sulfate rich system, you have a lot of opportunity for the anhydrite to swell, then shrink, then swell, then shrink. The expansion over geological time opens up the rocks and the shrinking creates up voids for fluids to move into.
We took a group of half a dozen people to the Anza project, Pablo briefing us all along. Thom Calandra was there along with the lovely Maria Paulina fr