RE: My take on Orosur5 Feb 2025 14:38
- Existing shareholders: legacy shareholders like Aberdeen or Newmont are less relevant because we cannot say that they are endorsing the current project as it is (they might do but their investment was not related to what is happening now). The new Canadian instit from the recent placing is major endorsement as they paid a big premium to where the share price was a few weeks prior and seem to have a track record of chasing multi baggers in the junior minding space. Going back to Newmont, it is reassuring that they have only 13-14% of the company as you do not want them to block any potential M&A later on.
- AIM vs TSX: this is new to me and very interesting. Unless I am missing something (please let me know), Orosur is heavuily discounted on AIM vs TSX. The stock closed at 19cts on the TSX, which FX adjusted, woudl be 10.5/11p in the UK. and here are, around 8.5/9p. I have followed a few canadian investors' messages over the last few days and they generally seem a lot more technically minded than we are in the UK, when it comes to geology. So far, I feel we (in the UK, are having a bargain.
- M&A: this is the key here. If Pepas keeps hitting great holes, especially if it extends, Orosur becomes a legit M&A target. Who are the key candidates for a move to acquire Orosur? Im not sure the western majors would rush back in Colombia at this stage but I definitely think the likes of Collective mining, Aris Mining and Zijin will be very keen to make a move sooner rather than later. If you look at Collective mining, they have a market cap of CAD 600million while "only" being a junior gold explorer (admittedly with a lot more drilling data). The do not have any intersections close to what we are hitting at Pepas. And right now, we are less than a 1/10th of their mkt cap. Aris mining will soon generate cash flows and could easily be looking to expand their resource portfolio with potentially the best high grade deposit in Colombia. Same for Zijin although I feel Chinese players prefer advanced, near-production assets.
Finally, I want to remind people that 20-30x bagger do happen...rarely... but they do. We used to have those on AIM with the likes of Solgold, Greatland Gold but those are years behind us now. So I want to remind you of Ventana Gold, it was a tiny small cap that hit 100m+ at 6g+... 12 months later, share price went up 30x and later got sold for 1.4bn dollars.
To be clear, it is early days and a lot has to keep going right for such bullish scenarios to happen but we are definitely going that way so far.
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