RE: Hi Ho Silver!7 Jan 2026 11:48
Good observation re Scallywag and good rebuttal of that observation. I posted yesterday that BG has made it clear that this initial drilling campaign at El P is NOT aimed at making a discovery, but is about looking at the rocks. However, they do appear to have found silver and gold nonetheless even though this was not the stated aim of the drilling. I'm sure most of us are not expecting bonanza grades from a drilling program that is not aimed at discovery!
I would imagine that most are positioned here not because of any one drilling campaign, or any one project, but because this is a cash rich junior, with an amazing portfolio containing no less than four potentially billion dollar projects, ALL of which are being progressed in 2026. One of those - PEPAS - is currently the front runner and its forthcoming MRE will, hopefully, cement a much higher valuation for the share price. From there onwards, any other good news that each of the four projects generates in 2026 will represent (hopefully significant) upside from the higher valuation underpinned by the PEPAS MRE. All in a bull market for gold.
I believe THIS is the investment case for most of us positioned here - with our hopes and risk spread across all four projects, rather than any single one, such that we might find ourselves in a Scallywag scenario.
El P assay results will be a bonus. They don't need to give us high grades just yet - they just need to give us the belief that there is a major gold and silver discovery to be made at El P in the FOLLOW UP drilling campaigns later in 2026. By far the most important announcement right now will be the PEPAS MRE.
Hopefully we get both - a tasty MRE and appetising initial assays from El P. We can afford to be greedy, because OMI is a buffet after all!