RE: Castillo Copper: Charlie Stephenson, Geologist & Mining Specialist29 Jul 2021 21:57
@Trek
Totally agree with all your views, and have numerous positions personally of size across Copper, PGM's and Gold (inflation hedge) in light of those exact points.
This link below is the CEO of AAL talking the same old stuff that we all know, and he talks about the supply shortfall particularly in the 3-5 year window.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/07/29/mining-industry-will-struggle-to-supply-enough-copper-in-next-5-years-anglo-american-ceo.html
For me -> we all know the macro's supporting our choices of investment, but listening to that CEO it makes me feel that he (and other similarly positioned CEO's) want this cycle to play out, resulting in Majors playing catch-up (back of the supply - demand curve) with guaranteed future supply shortfalls, Copper price increases will quickly escalate to circa +$15k /Tn - after all what's better for the Majors future SP, combined with their new mines coming on line (late) with copper in a super cycle and prices of Copper at an all time high....
We as investors are impatient and want the industry to "join" all those macro dots and push explorers SP up now...
Clearly majors need to get busy establishing relationships with the exploratory companies so they get a foot in early before they are beaten to the post. So it's chicken & egg Majors get in now or wait for copper to prices to increase and find an other company have beaten them to the post.
With all that said - there's no doubt about this sector / company being the right investment for the right period of time, & patience is certainly a virtue.
IMO ATB Shorn