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Juniors, Metals, and Projects Version 3.0
The Good, The Bad, & The Butt-Ugly
A Primer for the Lay Investor
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The Good, The Bad, & The Butt-Ugly
• Timeline
• Cost of Production
• Access to Capital
• Exit Strategy
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The Good:
• Short Lead Time to Development
• Low Capital Expenditures
• Low Cost Producers
• Multiple Exit Strategies
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The Good
• OP / Heap Leach Oxide Au Deposits
• ISR or OP / Heap Leach Cu Deposits
• ISR or OP / Heap Leach U Deposits
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Heap Leach Gold Mine Dumps, Leach Pad, Plant Sonora, Mexico
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ISR Copper Oxide Deposit, Arizona
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ISR Uranium “Mine”
Palangana, South Texas
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Hobson ISR Plant, South Texas
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The Bad
• Time: Exploration, Permitting, Development
• Mills & Smelters
• High Capital Expenditures
• Integrated Mining Company
• One Exit Strategy
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The Bad
• Polymetallic VMS or Pb-Zn-Ag Deposits
• Ni-Cu-PGM-Co Deposits
• Porphyry Cu + Mo-Au-Ag Deposits
• Iron Ore Deposits
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VMS Mine, SE Alaska
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Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo Mine, Utah
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Iron Ore Mine, Michigan
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The Butt-Ugly
• Supply & Demand Fundamentals
• Sub-Economic Deposit Type
• Monopoly or Oligopoly
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Moly Porphyry Mine/Mill Complex, CO
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Subeconomic: Volcanic-Hosted Uranium
Macusani District, Peru
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The Butt Ugly: “Unconventional Deposits”
• USGS Research in 1970s - 1980s
• Unusual Geological Environments
• Unusual Occurrences
• Subeconomic: Past, Present, & Future
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Unconventional Gabbro-Hosted Cu-Ni-PGE
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The Butt-Ugly: Specialty & Ferrous Metals
• Li, Be
• Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Ga, Ge
• Zr, Nb, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Te, REEs
• Ta, W, Re, Hg, Bi
• Mercenary Musings Radio w/ Rob Graham
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Niobium Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Rules of Thumb = Exceptions
• Small Polymetallic near Smelter Complexes
• Porphyry or VMS near Mines / Mills
• Integrated Specialty Metals Companies (Sb, W)
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The Good, The Bad, & The Butt-Ugly:
Why, Why Not, and Why Never?
• Timeline
• Cost of Production
• Access to Capital
• Exit Strategy
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Due Diligence Checklist
Every Good Geologist Knows that Grade is King
Junior Resource Companies: “Mining the Stock Market
“A Mine is a Hole in the Ground with a Liar Beside It”
A Day without Learning is a Day Wasted
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Beware of Frogs Masquerading as Princes
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Monday Morning Musings from
Mickey the Mercenary Geologist
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Michael S. (Mickey) Fulp [email protected]
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MercenaryGeologist.FM
Twitter: @mercenarygeo