Calibre Mining gehört
zu den ganz wenigen Goldaktien weltweit, die trotz des Einbruchs im
Goldminensektor in den letzten Wochen, eine herausragende Performance abgab.
Der Junior-Goldexplorer
CalibreMining (TSX-V:
CXB) schreitet mit
großen Schritten in der aufstrebenden Goldminennation von Nicaragua voran. Die
Explorations- und Bohrprogramme laufen nach Vorstellung und lieferten auch in
den letzten Wochen starke Ergebnisse.
Sehen Sie z.B. die News vom 24. September, in der Calibre
eine weitere Entdeckung von hochgradigen Goldmineralisierungen bekanntgab:
Calibre Mining Announces Additional
Drilling Results at the Eastern Borosi Gold-Silver Project, Nicaragua,
including 6.5 Metres Grading 16.9 g/t Gold, Link:
http://www.calibremining.com/s/News.asp?ReportID=675655
Die starken Resultate in der Projektexploration und die noch
besseren Aussichten auf die Entdeckung hochgradiger Goldvorkommen mit guter Qualität, kurbeln das Interesse an Calibre Mining seit vielen Monaten an. Nicht
ohne Grund sind Goldproduzenten wie B2Gold
Corp. und IAMGOLD als
Projektpartner bereits eingestiegen und investieren zweistellige
Millionensummen in die Exploration.
Mit dem
Einstieg von
Branchenlegende
Pierre Lassonde
(Gründer und Chairman von
Franco-Nevada),
der rund 11% an Calibre mit einer strategischen Finanzierung in Höhe von 2 Mio.
CAD übernahm, hat sich das Interesse an der aussichtsreichen Gold-Story
nochmals schlagartig erhöht.
Die Entwicklung von Calibre's Aktienkurs ist im Vergleich zum Goldminen-Sektor in diesen Tagen eine wahre Augenweide:
Quelle: bigcharts.com
Folgend mein jüngstes Interview mit dem Chairman von Calibre
Mining, Douglas Forster:
Oliver
Gross (OG): Long story short. What are Calibre’s current investment highlights?
Douglas
Forster (DF): Calibre has partnered
with well-known mid-tier producing gold companies, B2Gold and now recently IAMGOLD.
Each partner is currently active and is
spending significant capital to earn-in respective optioned concessions located
in the prolific past producing Mining Triangle of Nicaragua. B2Gold,
Nicaragua’s largest gold producer and Calibre Mining have a (51%/49%) joint
venture.
Calibre
has granted B2Gold an option to increase their project ownership from 51% to
70% interest by spending an additional $6M. B2Gold has also recently increased
their corporate share ownership in Calibre from 10% to 15.2%. B2Gold
is very active on the property with a new gold discovery at the bulk tonnage
gold target, Minnesota Gold Project where trench results have returned 62m
grading 1.76g/t gold. With continued
success Calibre expects a drilling decision and anticipates B2Gold will elect
to drill this target before the end of the year.
IAMGOLD
executed an option agreement on adjacent concessions with Calibre in May 2014
to earn a 51% interest by spending $5M over 3 years with an additional option
to increase to 70% interest by spending another $5M over 3 years. Each option also comes with $450,000 in cash
payments to Calibre.
IAMGOLD
has already initiated a 3400 metre diamond drilling program and the first
results returned 4.8m grading 25.7g/t gold and 6.0m grading 14g/t gold.
OG: Why
should investors buy Calibre now?
DF: Calibre has two very active partners with
potential for significant discovery and both of these, as well as our 100%
owned project, are expected to generate further news flow in 2014. B2Gold is targeting bulk tonnage mineralization
on the Minnesota Gold Project where they are actively trenching and auger
drilling a 1.75km x 1.25km gold in soil anomaly following-up on the initial
discovery trench of 62m grading 1.76g/t gold.
IAMGOLD
is completing a 3,400m diamond drilling program targeting a series of well
defined structural targets with initial results returning 4.8m grading 25g/t
gold and 6.0m grading 14g/t gold. President and CEO, Greg Smith states: “This is a very encouraging start
to the drilling program on the Eastern Borosi Project. Drilling has intersected the mineralized structure
in every drill hole and this first set of assay results includes a number of
high-grade gold intercepts. The drilling
program is progressing on schedule and on budget and additional assay results
will be released when available”.
In
addition, Calibre has a large 100% owned land package with a discovery at the
Montes De Oro gold project where the company has identified a 400m by 650m
anomaly which includes trenches grading 52m at 7.0g/t gold, 27m at 4.9g/t gold
and 33m at 2.1g/t gold. This is a high
priority drill ready target and Calibre is now evaluating options including the
possibility of bringing on another well funded partner.
OG: What can we expect in view of news flow
and progress during the next months?
DF: Calibre and our partners continue to
explore and build on recent discoveries on the Borosi Concessions. This mineral rich district remains
under-explored and has excellent potential for additional gold-silver-copper discoveries.
We expect additional diamond drilling results
from IAMGOLD for the remainder of the Phase I, 3,400 meter, program. B2Gold contunes to advance the Minnesota Gold
Project and we can expect additional trench results and with contriunued
success a drilling decision. Calibre
will be making a decision on how to advance the 100% owned Montes De Oro either
bringing in another new partner or potentially working on the project
ourselves. On-going work at Montes de
Oro includes additional rock sampling and a ground magnetic survey.
OG: Why is Nicaragua a lucrative and save
place to invest?
DF: Nicaragua has a very long mining history
with a strong mining law and pro-mining investment climate. Nicaragua is rated the safest country in
Central America with modern infrastructure. Calibre’s partner B2Gold is one of the major
employers in Nicaragua and is the largest exporter of gold. Finally, from a geological perspective
Nicaragua is one of the most prospective and prolific regions which is now
attracting significant foreign investment from well-known producing gold
companies. The country remains extremely
underexplored.
OG: Junior gold market YTD- the situation for
the most gold companies remains very challenging and your stock is trading near
the 52 weeks high resulted by your strong progress during FY2014. When do you
guess we will see a stronger recovery and how/why will Calibre benefit?
DF: We believe we have adapted appropriately
to the market conditions by partnering our projects with well-known, cash flow
positive mid-tier gold companies. This stategy
has reduced our burn rate ensuring that Calibre will have minimal share
dilution while continuing to advance our projects. Our partners remain confidently optimistic
about the geological potential and are therefore spending significant capital
which provides good news flow for the investors.
We
anticipate markets to remain volatile for several months, however the companies
that have low overhead and active programs with new discoveries will be the
ones that will reap the immediate benefits. We anticipate the junior market to begin its
recovery once gold prices start to break through $1300 and the macro landscape
for hard assets firming up. Once this
begins Calibre will benefit from having significantly advanced projects in a
safe jurisdiction with well-known partners spending capital and creating
exciting news flow.
OG:
Please give us some more insights into
your first-class investor base and your strong story supporters.
DF: First and foremost management is a
significant investor with approximately 10% ownership. Our partner B2Gold not only has an active
program underway on the ground within a joint venture structure but also now
owns 15.2% after recently increasing their equity position over the past few
months. In addition we have significant
institutional ownership and coverage with well-known analysts including
Exploration Insights (Brent Cook) following the company.
Quelle: calibremining.com
Quote:
Calibre Mining mit Meilenstein-News:
Branchen-Legende Pierre Lassonde kommt an Bord
Der legendäre Branchen-Guru,
Top-Entrepreneur und Drahtzieher von etlichen Erfolgs-Stories - Mr. Pierre Lassonde - kauft sich in Gold-Explorer Calibre Mining (TSX-V:CXB) ein, der seine Goldprojekte im Mittelamerika-Staat Nicaragua
u.a. mit dem wachtumsstarken Goldproduzenten B2Gold (TSX:BTO) vorantreibt..
