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MNC Metminco

0.325
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24 Dec 2024 - Closed
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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Metminco LSE:MNC London Ordinary Share AU000000MNC7 ORD NPV
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  0.00 0.00% 0.325 0.00 00:00:00
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- O 0 0.325 GBX

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Posted at 04/10/2018 10:32 by scotty666
I don’t hold these but have an investment in one of the companies selling the nickel asset to MNC - for those that do still hold this may be useful;
Posted at 30/8/2018 07:16 by christy41
T.C.M.C ...Hopefully that will get concluded and am quite hopeful certainly now with Nick Winer onboard.Still the chance also of offloading Chilean assets as well.
The project just keeps getting better and better but bad sentiment from the past
seems this is completely ignored over here still plus general small cap malaise

Lots of chat on the hotcopper site and that's where I post now.
Certainly seems that they believe the copper is there and with Nick Winer coming
on board with his Nuevo Chaquiro connections at Anglo Gold seems very coincidental.

MNC at Mining 121 in London and New York shortly and will also be at the Columbian Gold Symposium later in the year.Mining 121 presentations normally get uploaded
onto site a couple of weeks after the event.
Posted at 24/7/2018 06:49 by christy41
Taken from Marcs11 on the hotcopper site.


At just 0.55p a share, Metminco (LSE:MNC) has so far struggled to capture the market’s imagination since refinancing, shaking up its board, and shifting its strategic focus onto Colombia earlier this year. With the business expecting drill results from a potentially gold porphyry-bearing prospect in August and concluding negotiations on two more sites, could now be a good time to get in ahead of a news-driven re-rate?

Here, Metminco’s executive chairman Kevin Wilson tells us what Colombia has to offer and how the firm plans to make the most of it.

New Steps

Since Wilson, an experienced geologist, joined Metminco in March, the business has undergone a strategic shift away from mine development and onto exploration. Specifically, it wishes to demonstrate the potential of its Colombian gold exploration assets. It is also freeing up additional cash by reducing operating costs and financial liabilities. Indeed, it has already reduced the size of its board and is looking at ways to divest its two non-core assets in Chile.

A significant development came in April when Metminco carried out a AUD5.6m (c.£3.1m) rights issue. After paying off most of its creditors to limit debt exposure, the company was left with around A$3m (c.£1.6m) cash to launch a high impact exploration programme in Colombia.

Wilson told us the rights issue was crucial in enabling Metminco to pursue the first steps of its new strategy:
‘The success of April’s rights issue has given us the funds to begin our exploration strategy and get our foot in the door in an area with real potential.’

Emerging environment

Metminco’s 100pc-owned Colombian assets are collectively called the Quinchia portfolio and found in the country’s prospective Cauca Belt. The area hosts more than 60Moz gold and is home to many large gold porphyries, the best known of which is perhaps AngloGold’s 28.5Moz La Colosa deposit.

Economically, Colombia is currently in a sweet spot, boasting 4.7pc GDP growth a year in the decade to 2017. It also contains plenty of infrastructure and massive gold reserves. However, it has been historically underexplored thanks to decades of political instability and warfare.

Thankfully, this appears to be changing, with Colombia’s government and its largest rebel group, FARC, signing a landmark peace treaty in 2016, majorly reducing security risk. Things took another step forward in June this year when the country’s presidential election managed to pass without any violence, with social conservative Ivan Duque emerging as victor. According to Wilson, political developments like these represent a visible step change in Colombia’s stability as an operating environment. He told us:

‘When you think the country is coming out of a very long era of conflict and polarisation, the fact that nearly everyone accepted the result of the election is a credit to the nation, its democratic institution and the steps forward they have made. I look forward to seeing this continue.’

The positive implications on Colombia’s mining sector can already be seen, with the country taking in$10bn of foreign investment last year alone. With the government planning to expand port and railways by 2020 as part of a $70bn mining infrastructure program, the good times are primed to continue.

Drilling programme

The first stop in Metminco’s exploration drilling programme at Quinchia is a prospect called Tesorito. Three holes drilled by the prospect’s previous owner intersected more than 250m of anomalous gold mineralisation and found higher levels of copper and molybdenum at depth.

At the start of June, Metminco began a 1,500m diamond drilling program at the site with the hope of confirming and expanding these intersections, to identify a gold porphyry system. Given the nearby presence of many large porphyries, Wilson is hopeful that assay results from the drilling at Tesorito – expected next month – can trigger a positive re-rate in Metminco’s shares. With a tranche of his performance shares vesting on the delivery of 1MMozs gold from the site by December 2019, a lot is riding on him being right:

‘Previous results suggest there is a lot of gold in the system at Tesorito. We are essentially following up these results which were delivered by the previous owner. At the moment, this is not at all priced into our share price so delivering early drilling results here could get us noticed.’

The second prospect that Metminco plans to drill this year is Chuscal. The opportunity is a significant gold porphyry target that features a large, undrilled gold geochemical anomaly based in an area where artisanal mining has already unearthed encouraging channel sample grades.

As it stands, Metminco is in discussions with the current owner to formalise a farm-in/JV agreement over the site and exploration drilling is not expected to begin until later this year when these talks have completed.

Based on the value of existing porphyries, Wilson is encouraged by Chuscal’s potential. He believes the site could house a ‘ large deposit’ that may end up being transformational for Metminco:

‘A similar porphyry in Ecuador has an asset value of $1bn, so that is the sort of potential you can get if you hit the right discoveries, and we already know there are a lot of those in this region. Chuscal is about 50km north of AngloGold’s La Colosa porphyry deposit, in the same belt, and not too far from another called Marmato, which contains 8.6Moz gold. These properties can be worth $500m to $1bn. What’s more, because the gold is at surface, the cost of drilling is modest. Chuscal could be a key part of Metminco’s future story.’

Miraflores

Metminco will also continue permitting work for its Miraflores project at Quinchia, where it is investigating options for gold production from a proposed mine site. The project contains an 840koz measured and indicated gold resource at 2.8g/t and a 457koz proved and probable gold reserve at 3.3g/t. A DFS completed at the site in late-2017put production at 45koz per year for 9.5 years, giving it an NPV(8) of $72m and all-in sustaining costs of $643/oz at $1,300oz gold

With local law requiring a plan of work (POW) and environmental impact assessment (EIA) before work can start, work for gaining these permits has occurred this year. In January, Metminco submitted a work plan for mine development approval to the Colombian Mining Agency. Wilson argues that Miraflores’ resource provides investors with a degree of downside protection. As he put it to us:

‘If you look at any valuation of Miraflores’ resource, you can come up with a number that is in advance of Metminco’s current market cap, and that is without considering cash or giving any value whatsoever to the upside at Tesorito and Chuscal that drilling should produce.So,you have that protection of value as you’re buying in cheap and the potential for a re-rating over the short term- as we have only recently shifted our focus, our story is still becoming known.’

Time for a re-rate?

With Metminco’s market cap sitting at just £5m, Wilson’s point about value protection has merit –the resource figures and data released about the business’s assets do not seem to be holding much sway in the market at all. If his instincts turn out to be correct, then it could be sat on two sizable gold porphyries in Tesorito and Chuscal, whose value – based on nearby discoveries – would make its current market cap look paltry. If they turn out to be duds, then Miraflores isn’t even being fully valued into shares based on the company’s calculations.

Although it is likely that Metminco will have to raise cash at some point to continue its development, short-term newsflow could make it worth considering a punt at the firm’s current price on the expectation of a re-rate.

Author: Daniel Flynn

Disclosure: The author does not hold positions in any of the stocks mentioned above












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Posted at 19/7/2018 08:41 by christy41
Very lively over on the hotcopper board and share volume increasing significantly.
Posted at 14/6/2018 09:59 by the count of monte_cristo
What is the market cap of MNC now?

WH, what an idiot, I told him via email about 18 months ago to getting drilling at Tesorito as this would add excitement and interest to the stock and if the grades were good it would positively impact the sp, which would then mean that they could raise cash at a better price for shareholders. He told me that they were just focusing on Mira. Didn't work out well for him or any of the shareholders.
Posted at 31/5/2018 08:40 by christy41
A bit of an MNC write up from a couple of days ago.
Posted at 05/3/2018 13:26 by christy41
from RFC Ambrian a little while ago.

MNC : AU | A¢3.9 | US$3m | Speculative Buy

Announces Rights Issue and Restructuring

Metminco (ASX:MNC) has announced that it is to undertake a significant restructuring that will include a rights issue to refinance the company, a change of leadership (including a new Board and executive team) and the re-focusing of the company on the exploration of two high-impact targets — Tesorito and Chuscal — near its Miraflores gold development project in Colombia.

COMMENT: The restructuring will result in changes in both the direction and leadership of the company. Until recently Metminco had been focused on the development of the Miraflores gold deposit in Colombia, where it announced the results of a feasibility study in late October 2017, and at which work for the completion of the EIA remains ongoing. The current move is to test the large-scale, high-potential Tesorito geophysical anomaly; prior drilling intersected 384m grading 1.0 g/t from surface. This has the potential to generate some much-needed excitement around the company. We continue to recommend Metminco as a Speculative Buy.



The company plans to raise A$5.1m though a deeply discounted 7 for 2 rights issue at A$0.01/share and to raise A$190,000 through a placement at the same price. Each of the new shares issued will have one third of an option attached to it, exercisable at A$0.013/share for two years. The rights price of A$0.01/share is at a significant discount to the share price of A$0.039 prior to the announcement, and is at a 32.6% discount to the theoretical ex-rights price of A$0.0148/share.

The incoming Board and management will be led by the experienced mining executive Kevin Wilson. In addition to a re-focusing of the company’s attention on the potential of its exploration assets in Colombia, Metminco also plans to divest its non-core assets in Chile and reduce the level of its overheads.



The company plans to commence exploration drilling at the Tesorito prospect in April 2018, and at Chuscal — which is under option from AngloGold — later this year. Tesorito is the highest-priority exploration target within the tenements having been identified by limited drilling results, IP imaging and soil geochemistry. All three holes drilled by the project’s previous owner encountered consistent mineralisation and alteration, with the most notable intersection being TS-DH-02’s intercept of 384m at 1.0 g/t from surface. Surprisingly, and despite these results, drilling approached but failed to intersect the 700m x 500m high-chargeability IP anomaly as defined by a 2012 imaging survey. Copper and molybdenum values in TS-DH-02 were elevated towards the end of the hole and the boundary of the anomaly. Testing the main geophysical anomaly remains a priority. The company believes Tesorito has the potential to represent a sizeable gold-copper porphyry system, typical of the host Mid-Cauca porphyry belt, which houses the giant 33Moz La Colosa and 14.5Moz Marmato deposits
Posted at 25/1/2018 12:38 by sannabay
This RNS can only be viewed as very positive, though no doubt the naysayers on the LSE and HotCopper boards will emerge over the next few days and have plenty to complain about.

A real shame MNC’s true value is not reflected in the share price, but it won’t be ignored forever.
Posted at 11/1/2018 15:22 by christy41
TCMC,two interesting interviews from Kitco on gold price,not that anything seems
to help the MNC share price at the moment.
Every $100.00 increase in price of gold adds $20 million to MNC NPV from the Nov 2017 presentation





Also from the 14th of Jan,from about 04:30 onwards,gold price with chart.
Posted at 04/10/2017 03:30 by the count of monte_cristo
My personal opinion, is that once we get the FS and then the EIA MNC will be in play, by which time I would speculate the share price will be significantly above the current share price. Let's be reasonable here and compare MNC to other companies who have an FS and EIA and a cap of in excess of 15m to 20m GBP (12-16p) should not be unreasonable!

Look at what RedEagle did with developing their mine as well as the interesting acquisition of CB Gold, which Batero were also interested in acquiring.
Metminco share price data is direct from the London Stock Exchange

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