Colt Resources
continues putting together one of the biggest packages of high-grade gold and
tungsten mining/exploration rights in all of Portugal (some 890 square miles),
where the company enjoys a tight-knit relationship at all levels with the
mining-friendly local government and where the impact is now really being felt
from the EU’s increasing identification in recent years of tungsten as a
strategic metal. Heightened EU interest in tungsten has been due in large part
to primary global supplier (with roughly 85% of global supply) China’s
curtailing of rare earth and metal exports since 2010, a move that was recently
addressed somewhat by the WTO dispute ruling in March, but a problem which
still puts considerable logistical/strategic heat on European decision makers
for finding long-term sources closer to home.
The company recently
wrapped Phase 1 of an infill drilling campaign (Feb. 20) begun back in November
of 2013 on both of its advanced-stage gold and tungsten projects in Portugal,
the Boa Fé gold project in the south, and Tabuaço tungsten project in the north,
with some 5.9k feet in 32 holes and 8.5k feet in 22 holes drilled respectively.
Designed to support forthcoming feasibility studies on the two projects
(expected to be in production in within 18 and 36 months respectively), this
latest drilling is also intended to increase confidence in previously reported
resource levels and COLTF has targeted an additional 18.4k feet of drilling for
the remainder of this year’s first half. Cores are logged and sampled so it’s
just a matter of time before the assays come back from COLTF’s lab guys in
Spain. The company is wasting no time in the interim and they are currently
progressing on the work needed for complete mining permit applications on both
projects, including the environmental data collection for the EIAs.
Looking at the NI
43-101 resource estimate from March of last year on Boa Fé, which examined just
the six primary targets out of multiple (roughly 40) known gold deposits in the
larger 20.5 miles of Ossa-Montemor shear zone, we have really nice returns of
around 6.07mt at 1.74 g/t Au (340.31k oz) indicated, or 1.55mt at 1.69 g/t Au
(84.20k oz) inferred. A subsequent PEA detailed an after-tax NPV5% of some
$64.3M, with an IRR of 30.2% using COLTF’s preferred processing option and open
pit mining.
Tabuaço, just 62
miles east south-east of the city of Porto, looks equally good, if not better
than Boa Fé. High-grade mineralization has been previously reported at Tabuaço,
including 1.50% WO3 over 32.84 feet and 0.93% WO3 over 43.77 feet (including
1.05% WO3 over 28.67 feet). The last NI 43-101 (Oct. 2012) on the project gives
us solid baselines of some 1.495mt at 0.55% WO3 indicated, or an inferred
mineral resource of 1.230mt at 0.59% WO3. Compare this data to Blackheath
Resources’ Covas Project up in the northwest for instance (roughly 60 miles
plus to the north of Porto), which is considered high-grade compared to most of
the other deposits in the world at around 0.78% WO3, and you can understand why
Tabuaço has been fast-tracked for production here within the next two to three
years.
Also in the latest
operational update on COLTF was the announcement that drilling has started on
their Santo António gold JV near Tabuaço, currently under management of the
company’s Brazilian partner, Contecnica, with results on the drilling of
gold-bearing tailings from this past producer set to come out soon. On the
Borba JV to the east of Boa Fé, COLTF is planning a 6.56k-foot drilling program
designed to test the project’s vastly similar geology to Boa Fé (both being in
the Ossa-Morena zone) and strong indicators of copper-gold and gold
mineralization, characterized by prior regional exploration from Rio Tinto and
others during the 1986 to 2006 window.
Also in the news for
COLTF was progress highlighted last month on their 38% stake in Colt Resources
Middle East (CRME), the company’s Middle East-focused affiliate, which
completed the second and final closing of their private placement announced
back in January, bringing in some CND$1.025M. Current targets for CRME are
Pakistan and Afghanistan, with the minerals-rich Tethyan belt being a primary
operational goal.
Get a closer look at
COLTF by visiting www.coltresources.com
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