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Kaiser Media Watch Blog - March 1, 2017 to March 31, 2017
Kaiser Media Watch Blog enables John Kaiser to share online content from other media he deems interesting or relevant to Kaiser Research Online audiences. He collects links to such content and writes a brief explanation. The KMW Blog gets updated during the evening KRO update. After a week or so the current KMW Blog gets archived and a new one is started. Tweets are sent with a link to the item in the KMW Blog when it is of particular interest. Right clicking the JK header allows one to share or copy a link directly to that specific blog post.
Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projects will not be limited to companies he has covered as Bottom-Fish and Spec Value Hunter picks. He will briefly describe each project's goal and its timeline. These projects will generally be exploration plays that have not yet turned into a discovery. The objective of Discovery Watch is to alert audiences to the existence of earlier stage exploration projects before they become big discoveries. Jim and John will periodically circle back to review the outcome. Should one of the projects deliver a discovery Jim and John will monitor that discovery on a more frequent basis. KRO will keep track of projects mentioned through Discovery Watch with HoweStreet.com which will keep a running tab of Discovery Watch projects that includes links to the KRO profile for each company and project.
Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projects will not be limited to companies he has covered as Bottom-Fish and Spec Value Hunter picks. He will briefly describe each project's goal and its timeline. These projects will generally be exploration plays that have not yet turned into a discovery. The objective of Discovery Watch is to alert audiences to the existence of earlier stage exploration projects before they become big discoveries. Jim and John will periodically circle back to review the outcome. Should one of the projects deliver a discovery Jim and John will monitor that discovery on a more frequent basis. KRO will keep track of projects mentioned through Discovery Watch with HoweStreet.com which will keep a running tab of Discovery Watch projects that includes links to the KRO profile for each company and project.
Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projects will not be limited to companies he has covered as Bottom-Fish and Spec Value Hunter picks. He will briefly describe each project's goal and its timeline. These projects will generally be exploration plays that have not yet turned into a discovery. The objective of Discovery Watch is to alert audiences to the existence of earlier stage exploration projects before they become big discoveries. Jim and John will periodically circle back to review the outcome. Should one of the projects deliver a discovery Jim and John will monitor that discovery on a more frequent basis. KRO will keep track of projects mentioned through Discovery Watch with HoweStreet.com which will keep a running tab of Discovery Watch projects that includes links to the KRO profile for each company and project.
Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projects will not be limited to companies he has covered as Bottom-Fish and Spec Value Hunter picks. He will briefly describe each project's goal and its timeline. These projects will generally be exploration plays that have not yet turned into a discovery. The objective of Discovery Watch is to alert audiences to the existence of earlier stage exploration projects before they become big discoveries. Jim and John will periodically circle back to review the outcome. Should one of the projects deliver a discovery Jim and John will monitor that discovery on a more frequent basis. KRO will keep track of projects mentioned through Discovery Watch with HoweStreet.com which will keep a running tab of Discovery Watch projects that includes links to the KRO profile for each company and project.
JK owns shares of Nevada Expl, Uravan and Scandium Intl; Goldquest, Scandium Intl, and Probe are SVH picks; Uravan and Nevada Expl are bottom-fish picks
The mood at PDAC the first day was distinctly better than during the past six years, confirming that we are now in the second year of what will be a 3-5 year junior resource sector bull cycle of the sort we had in the nineties when everything was about discovery exploration. My Newsletter Writer Presentation on Sunday morning March 5, 2017 argued that Discovery Exploration is Back. Rachel Lee of Smallcap Power interviewed me afterwards (6.5 minutes). Below is a brief summary of the big shift I see is underway.
The big signal of a major structural shift took place in February when a half dozen juniors led by Osisko raised $100 million in largely bought deals for exploration of the Windfall district in Quebec where Osisko has a 400,000 m drill program underway. This is shocking because for decades the Windfall district has been notorious for small high grade zones so ratty that even the 1.6 million oz gold resource at 7-9 g/t at the Windfall deposit is not worth developing at $1,200 gold according to a 2014 PEA. Osisko's work, however, has revealed a geological context similar to the Timmins district which has yielded 70 million ounces over the past hundred years. The emerging view is that past exploration in the Windfall district has not been aggressive enough.
The overall market funding focus since 2003 has been on feasibility demonstration of existing deposits in the context of sharply higher metal prices thanks to the now finished super-cycle and gold's catchup to its inflation adjusted equivalent to $400 in 1980. Gold at $1,200 is a wash in real price times. The mantra during the past couple years is to focus on juniors with so called optionality plays, namely worthless deposits that need a higher metal price to justify development. Don't spend money on exploration, just hibernate and wait for the price of gold to go up. This attitude has caused a resource junior market linkage to the trend in gold. Last year's bear market turnaround rally tracked gold's rebound towards $1,400 but stopped cold in mid August when gold reversed.
The market has tired of waiting for things the resource juniors cannot control and having stock prices jerked around by traders every time there is a metal price trend change. The big market shift, especially in those corners capable of putting up $100 million, is that companies should make themselves valuable by finding a deposit that works at the metal prices we have. But the age of outcropping monsters is over. Anything new and good will be blind. The best place to start is known mineralized systems, rethinking their potential, and using the drill bit to test those theories. The old approach of setting up a target for a discovery hole kill shot is out the window; drilling scout holes to build the geological context is in.
This is really important because in the optionality game it is easy to rank projects based on tonnage-grade and the costs associated with the best mining scenario. You cannot do that with discovery exploration. This means that the field is wide open for new money to come in and bankroll interesting exploration projects without worrying about having missed the boat. Bay Street may have poured $100 million into the Windfall district, but a world class discovery could emerge from any project that has visionary geologists behind it and a serious drill program underway. The retail investor is generally not aware that we are back in this kind of market.
Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projects will not be limited to companies he has covered as Bottom-Fish and Spec Value Hunter picks. He will briefly describe each project's goal and its timeline. These projects will generally be exploration plays that have not yet turned into a discovery. The objective of Discovery Watch is to alert audiences to the existence of earlier stage exploration projects before they become big discoveries. Jim and John will periodically circle back to review the outcome. Should one of the projects deliver a discovery Jim and John will monitor that discovery on a more frequent basis. KRO will keep track of projects mentioned through Discovery Watch with HoweStreet.com which will keep a running tab of Discovery Watch projects that includes links to the KRO profile for each company and project.
