Mining Stock Daily

The Daily Gold's Jordan Roy-Byrne provides today's market analysis in the precious metals complex. What is more important right now for gold? Technicals or fundamentals? And can silver find its new bottom around the 200 DMA?

Newcrest rejects the Newmont acquisition bid but leaves the door open to negotiations. Ridgeline publishes results from Swift, while Troilus Gold, & EMX Royalty also have new drill results. Blackwolf Copper and Gold have an udpated resource estimation out for Niblack. Orla updates its exploration strategy at Cerro Quema. Piedmont Lithium signs a $75M equity agreement with LG Chem.  We'd like to thank our sponsors: Western Copper and Gold is focused on developing the world-class Casino project in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Casino project consists of an impressive 11 billion pounds of copper and 21 million ounces of gold in an overall resource. Western Copper and Gold trades on the TSX and the NYSE American with WRN. Be sure to follow the company via their website, www.westerncopperandgold.com. ASCU is an early-stage copper developer and explorer of the Cactus Mine and its satellite project, Parks/Salyer, both situated on a 4km mine trend on private land in Arizona's porphyry copper district. Opportunity for significant growth and scale exist along the trend, while future capex requirements outlined in the Cactus PEA benefit from significant onsite and nearby access to infrastructure. The Company is led by an executive management team and Board which have a long-standing track record of successful project delivery in North America. For more information, please visit www.arizonasonoran.com. Fireweed Metals is advancing 3 different projects within the Yukon and Northwest Territories, including the flagship Macmillan Pass Project, a large zinc-lead-silver deposit and the Mactung Project, one of the largest and highest-grade tungsten deposits in the world. Fireweed plans to advance these projects through exploration, resource definition, metallurgy, engineering, economic studies and collaboration with indigenous people on the path to production. For more information please visit fireweedmetals.com.

Michael Konnert of Vizsla Silver shares some insight behind the big financing the company recently closed which will assist in getting the Panuco project through both an updated resource estimate and a PEA. The company also has new drill results from the Copala Vein where the company continues to expand its mineralization. 

Philippe Cloutier of Cartier Resources provides his corporate editorial comments on the company's latest drill results from the East Chimo Mine Sector at the Chimo Mine Property in the Val-d'Or mining camp. Mr. Cloutier discusses how these results continue to add to the current resource. The Chimo Mine Project now consists of 29 gold zones that are situated within 19 gold structures. 

Meridian Mining Chairman, Gilbert Clark, tells listeners the story behind stumbling upon the Alvorada target within the Cabaçal Project in Brazil. As a result of the ongoing digitisation and georeferencing of historical BP data, the most significant copper anomaly within the Cabaçal tenements "Alvorada" has been uncovered from these archives. 

New drill results from Collective Mining, Fireweed Metals, FireFox Gold, Moneta Gold, and Amarc Resources. Regulus acquired a 70% interest in the Colquirrumi claims. American Pacific Mining reported its drill plans for the Gooseberry Project.  We'd like to thank our sponsors: Western Copper and Gold is focused on developing the world-class Casino project in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Casino project consists of an impressive 11 billion pounds of copper and 21 million ounces of gold in an overall resource. Western Copper and Gold trades on the TSX and the NYSE American with WRN. Be sure to follow the company via their website, www.westerncopperandgold.com. ASCU is an early-stage copper developer and explorer of the Cactus Mine and its satellite project, Parks/Salyer, both situated on a 4km mine trend on private land in Arizona's porphyry copper district. Opportunity for significant growth and scale exist along the trend, while future capex requirements outlined in the Cactus PEA benefit from significant onsite and nearby access to infrastructure. The Company is led by an executive management team and Board which have a long-standing track record of successful project delivery in North America. For more information, please visit www.arizonasonoran.com. Fireweed Metals is advancing 3 different projects within the Yukon and Northwest Territories, including the flagship Macmillan Pass Project, a large zinc-lead-silver deposit and the Mactung Project, one of the largest and highest-grade tungsten deposits in the world. Fireweed plans to advance these projects through exploration, resource definition, metallurgy, engineering, economic studies and collaboration with indigenous people on the path to production. For more information please visit fireweedmetals.com.

Kai Hoffmann of Soar Financial and Oreninc joins us today to talk about the status of the current financing window the junior equities find themselves in, or not. Few companies out there are able to raise lots of cash right now while most are unable to find the necessary capital. Kai discusses a few themes he sees playing out and what it means for the health of this niche market heading into the spring. 

We have important technical reports from Ivanhoe Electric, Calibre Mining, Hecla Mining and Trilogy Metals today. Exploration updates from Cartier Resources, Meridian Mining, and Vizsla Silver. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Western Copper and Gold is focused on developing the world-class Casino project in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Casino project consists of an impressive 11 billion pounds of copper and 21 million ounces of gold in an overall resource. Western Copper and Gold trades on the TSX and the NYSE American with WRN. Be sure to follow the company via their website, www.westerncopperandgold.com. ASCU is an early-stage copper developer and explorer of the Cactus Mine and its satellite project, Parks/Salyer, both situated on a 4km mine trend on private land in Arizona's porphyry copper district. Opportunity for significant growth and scale exist along the trend, while future capex requirements outlined in the Cactus PEA benefit from significant onsite and nearby access to infrastructure. The Company is led by an executive management team and Board which have a long-standing track record of successful project delivery in North America. For more information, please visit www.arizonasonoran.com. Fireweed Metals is advancing 3 different projects within the Yukon and Northwest Territories, including the flagship Macmillan Pass Project, a large zinc-lead-silver deposit and the Mactung Project, one of the largest and highest-grade tungsten deposits in the world. Fireweed plans to advance these projects through exploration, resource definition, metallurgy, engineering, economic studies and collaboration with indigenous people on the path to production. For more information please visit fireweedmetals.com.

David Erfle joins us this afternoon to discuss the biggest news of the day, including the acquisition of Sabina Gold and Silver by B2Gold. The M&A trend continues this week. We discuss what this means for development stage projects in the M&A funnel. In addition, we discuss the maiden resource announcement from the Great Bear Deposit by Kinross. 

B2Gold is to pay C$1.1 billion to buy junior gold explorer Sabina Gold & Silver in an all-stock deal to obtain the Back River project in Nunavut, Canada, at 45% premium. Kinross Gold announced a maiden 5Moz gold resource estimate for its Great Bear project in the Red Lake district of Ontario, Canada. Freeport-McMoRan said its Grasberg operations in Indonesia were disrupted by significant rainfall and landslides with the company aiming to resume operations by the end of February. Nevada King Gold announced assay results from its Atlanta Gold Mine Project in the Battle Mountain Trend of Nevada. Metal Energy announced assay results from four on the nickel and copper-cobalt Manibridge project in the Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba.