Comparison shopping14 Feb 2022 19:30
I noticed xtract's market cap was hovering around the 55 million pounds - or 100 million Australian dollerydoos, and I wondered what copper stocks would I buy instead with that 100 mil? I went for the scattergun approach, buying three entire companies in the $30+ million range...Xanadu, Celsius and Libero.
Xanadu - has a defined resource so far of 3 million tons of copper, 8 million oz gold.
It's in Mongolia (ahem) which is an improving (somewhat sketchy) jurisdiction.
Celsius - resource so far 1.5mt of copper, 1.5moz of gold. High grades, some drills incl 177.00 m @ 1.98% copper & 0.95 g/t gold, within 630.50 m @ 0.81% copper & 0.32 g/t gold. Phillipines just lifted its ban on open pits, so on the up.
Has another million ton of copper, with a quarter million tons of cobalt(!) in Namibia. Huge in situ numbers $$$.
Libero - has another 2 million tons of copper, this time along with half a billion lbs of moly. It's in Colombia. Also an Argie porphyry with drilling of 380m @ 0.7%Cueq from surface. Plus two other Canadian porphyries that look to be too low grade.
So thats 5.5 million tons of copper, 9.5 million ozs of gold, $6 billion in situ of moly, and $8 billion in situ of cobalt.
Combined they have $20million cash, have 8 drill programs ongoing, and spread the risks over 6 different countries. They have all had consistently much better drilling results than xtr, except for those Canadian deposits. The deep stuff at Xanadu is running 5x richer than the best grades from xtr.
So I think you get a lot for your money this way.