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According to Abzus manager of
corporate communications, Quen-
tin Mai, Klipfel decided to take on
the role of president after spending
a week touring the Golden Reef
property last year. He even wrote
the projects technical report, in
which he describes the Asank-
rangwa belt as an emerging belt of
mineralization which is rapidly
gaining recognition as more gold is
found.
Abzus Ghanaian properties
were discovered by its chief execu-
tive officer, Allan Serwa, a former
resident of British Columbia who
moved to Ghana in 2007 to explore
a country he sees as the land of op-
portunity for a multitude of busi-
nesses.
As Mai tells it, when the price of
gold really took off, Serwa put to-
gether a portfolio of optioned gold
properties using local connections
and shopped around Vancouver for
a strategic investor. Through a mu-
tual contact, he pitched the idea to
the Cardero Groups Hendrik
Henk van Alphen, who immedi-
ately liked what he saw.
A Dutch immigrant who moved
to B.C. in his early 20s, van Alphen
started out as a self-described
bush rat, cutting lines and staking
claims, before starting his own
exploration company and expand-
ing. His Cardero Group now tends
a stable of 10 resource companies,
including gold explorer Interna-
tional Tower Hill, Cardero Re-
source (cdu-t) and Trevali Min-
ing (tv-t).
Cardero Resource bought an ap-
proximate 50% stake in Serwas
Abzu. Now its largest shareholder
controls 8.63 million shares, plus
warrants to acquire another 3.7 mil-
lion, for which it paid roughly 15 a
unit.
Abzus board of directors com-
prises seasoned mining execu-
tives connected to the Cardero
Group, including: chairman Gor-
don Neal, former co-owner of a
successful IR firm which claims
to have helped raise over $4 bil-
lion in debt and equity financings
over the years; doctorate of geol-
ogy holder Mark Cruise, a former
Anglo American (aal-l, aauky-
q) executive now serving as pres-
ident of Trevali, where he is fo-
cusing on putting two mines into
production over the next 12
months; and Jeff Pontius, a for-
mer AngloGold Ashanti (au-n)
geologist who left to co-found the
thriving International Tower
Hill.
Outside of the Cardero Group,
Abzu has brought on CEO Serwas
brother Mark as manager of social
development, whose goal is to im-
plement a three-phase social pro-
gram to reach out to local com-
munities. He is currently on stage
one, which employs 25 local Ghana-
ians and involves dialogue with the
Paramount Chief of the Manso Nk-
wanta tribe, who owns a small in-
terest in one of Abzus main prop-
erties.
Past exploration of the Golden
Reef project by three different op-
erators during the 1990s identified
multiple gold-bearing zones on the
property. Trenching and limited
drilling (31 shallow RC drill holes
and four diamond core holes) re-
turned tempting results, but not
enough for the previous owners to
stick around longer than two
years. The best historical intercepts
include 65 metres of 1.1 grams gold
per tonne, 4 metres grading 24
grams gold and 13 metres grading
2.25 grams gold.
Abzu is starting its drill program
with 25 first-pass drill holes in
southeast-northwest fence lines at
an average depth of 150 metres. It
will target the soil anomalies that
Abzu says coincides with a series
of northeast-trending structures.
According to president Klipfel,
Elsewhere in Ghana, similar north-
east-trending structures host multi-
million-ounce gold deposits, which
are the target of our exploration
program.
Following its June 21 announce-
ment that drilling had commenced,
shares of Abzu closed 14 to 65 on
a light volume of 43,000 shares.
The company has a 52-week trading
range of 45 and $1.20, with 53 mil-
lion shares outstanding and 83 mil-
lion fully diluted.
ECU
ECU, From Page 1
Abzu Gold
ABZU, From Page 1
Orosur Mining (omi-v, omi-l) does
things a little differently than its
Canadian counterparts. For start-
ers, the companys head office is in
Montevideo, Uruguay, where its
chief executive officer, David
Fowler, also resides.
What is more, Orosur owns the
only producing gold mine in Uru-
guay. Its San Gregorio mine 450 km
north of Montevideo boasts three
open pits, which produced 55,820
oz. gold during the fiscal year, end-
ing May 31, 2011, at average cash
costs of US$750 per oz. The mine
churned out a profit of US$6.28
million last quarter, which is one
of the best on record since Orosur
put the mine into production in
2004.
The company, formerly called
Uruguay Mineral Exploration,
also owns several exploration-
stage projects throughout South
America, including two advanced
gold prospects in Chile, acquired
early last year from an all-share
merger with Fortune Valley Re-
sources. It then changed names
to Orosur and released a maiden
resource report for one of the
Chilean projects, Pantanillo, in
September. It estimated the proj-
ect holds measured and indicated
resources comprising 47 million
tonnes grading 0.69 gram per
tonne gold, or 1.04 million oz.
gold.
The company announced on
June 9 that it plans to acquire a
high-grade artisanal gold mine,
Talca, in northern Chile, with the
intent of fast-tracking production.
Orosur has agreed to pay US$3.84
over the next 20 months to Compa-
nia Minera Demetrio Tello, owned
by the Tellos family, for an initial
25% interest in the mine located 375
km north of Santiago in Region IV.
It will then have the option to ac-
quire the remaining 75% interest
for another US$3.78 over the next
five years.
Orosur says it has already started
a 480-km linear ground magnetic
survey at the site, as well as surface
mapping and geochemical sam-
pling, and plans to start a 7,500-
metre, first-pass drill program in
the next six months. Despite the
Tellos family having produced ap-
proximately 300,000 oz. gold from
Talca over the last 40 years using
mainly artisanal methods, Orosur
says the Talca project has not been
explored with modern technology
and practices, presenting substan-
tial opportunities for growth.
The Tellos family mined a sys-
tem of seven outcropping high-
grade veins at Talca with an es-
timated average grade of 13 grams
gold per tonne. The veins are
hosted in Paleozoic rocks such as
meta-arenite, phyllite, chert and
meta-basalts of Devonian and
Carboniferous age, while the
principal structural controls on
the property are northnorth-
west trending shear zones and
fault structures between 2 and 4
metres wide, tracing 4 to 8 km
along strike. Mineralization has
been traced to depths of up to 250
metres.
Orosur notes the property is fully
licensed from existing operations,
and that it may be possible to up-
grade the current environmental
licence instead of applying for a
new one. The company anticipates
the permitting process could take
less than a year following approval
by the relevant authorities, and ex-
pects to begin a scoping study for
the project during the second quar-
ter of 2012.
To pay for the purchase and for
follow-up exploration, Orosur has
completed a US$13.5-million pri-
vate placement at $1.05 a share.
Shares of Orosur dropped a few
cents on the news. At presstime
on June 29, shares traded at $1.08
on light volume.
Orosur to buy Chilean artisanal gold mine
developing its key El Quevar silver
project in Argentinas Salta prov-
ince, and exploration projects in
Mexico and Peru. ECU currently
mines its Velardena silver project
in Mexicos Durango state.
The merged company would
host a measured and indicated re-
source of 25 million oz. silver, 26
million lbs. lead and 37 million lbs.
zinc. Inferred resources would
stand at 187 million oz. silver, 2 mil-
lion oz. gold, 1 billion lbs. lead and 1
billion lbs. zinc.
The deal has a break fee of $10
million. Both companies have
agreed not to solicit offers, but
could match superior offers.
On the merger news in Toronto,
ECU shares dropped 5, or 4.8%, to
99. Golden Minerals shares lost
6, or 0.3%, to end at $19.32.
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Taseko Mines (tko-t, tgb-x) saw
higher first-quarter profits com-
pared to last year, but still fell
below the markets expectations.
Taseko reported earnings of $5.7
million, or 3 per share, while ad-
justed earnings were $10.8 million,
or 6 per share, falling short of the
consensus of 10 per share.
Alex Terentiew, an analyst at
Credit Suisse, wrote in a June 9 re-
search note that he estimated an
adjusted EPS of 8, noting the
miss was partially due to fewer
sales and higher operating costs at
the companys Gibraltar copper
mine in British Columbia.
Gibraltar churned out 19.2 mil-
lion lbs. copper and sold 17 million
lbs. in the first quarter, compared to
23.2 million lbs. produced and 20.5
million lbs. sold a year ago.
The company says lower pro-
duction resulted from harsh
winter conditions, an unscheduled
four-day maintenance shutdown
and lower head grade.
Total cash costs amounted to
$2.05 per lb. copper sold, up from
$1.71 per lb. last year.
Taseko notes operating cash
costs were also affected by a
higher strip ratio, lower copper
production and a stronger dollar.
However, the company notes
that the quarter saw molybdenum
production of 316,500 lbs., up 63%
compared to the same period of
2010, due to better molybdenum
recovery.
During the quarter, the company
unveiled its Gibraltar Develop-
ment Plan 3 (GDP3) to increase
copper production, by building a
new concentrator that would in-
crease annual production capacity
by 60 million lbs. to 180 million lbs.
copper. Taseko also plans to boost
molybdenum production with a
new molybdenum recovery facil-
ity. The total expansion would cost
$325 million.
Terentiew writes that GDP3
provides the next leg of growth,
but not until 2013. He added that
higher copper production and
grades are expected next year.
As the company works on GDP3,
it also pushes ahead at other pro-
jects in the province.
On June 6, it submitted a project
description to the federal govern-
ment to seek final approval for its
New Prosperity gold-copper pro-
ject, near Williams Lake.
The company says the revised
proposal preserves Fish Lake, re-
duces the impact on the environ-
ment and addresses other con-
cerns that were identified during
the federal review in February.
The revision adds $300 million in
capital and operating expenses to
the original $815-million mine
plan.
Once the Canadian Environ-
mental Assessment Agency con-
firms the new project description,
the federal government would have
90 days to launch an environment
assessment review.
Relations with the First Nations
who opposed the draining of Fish
Lake still appear strained. A local
B.C. newspaper reported on June
9 that the Tsilhqotin Nation said
that it was not consulted during the
redesigning of the project. Taseko
disputed this by saying it contacted
the Tsilhqotin Nation after its ori-
ginal plan was rejected in Novem-
ber 2010, but was told the Tsilhqotin
Nation wasnt interested in meet-
ing.
The company plans a feasibility
study on its Aley niobium project
by year-end.
Terentiew of Credit Suisse has an
underperform rating on the stock,
with a lowered target price of
$5.25, from $5.50. The valuation ex-
cludes the Prosperity project, but
if Prosperity is included, another
$1.25 would be added to the current
target price.
In comparison, Canaccord Genu-
ity analyst Orest Wowkodaw has a
buy rating on the stock with a 12-
month target price of $7.25.
Adam Graf of Dahlman Rose in
New York has a buy on the stock
with a full-year estimate of US$9.94,
down from US$11.09.
Graf noted in a telephone inter-
view that Its very challenging to
say what I expect the stock to do
between now and the end of the
year . . . But its my expectation that
there is a lot of value to be un-
locked in Taseko, assuming that
Prosperity can be permitted at
some point, whether that is before
the end of this year or sometime
beyond there.
There is also significant value
to be unlocked at their Aley nio-
bium project, and actually their
Harmony project as I modelled it
which is quite a ways out there
as far as first production, but
could generate quite a bit of value
at the current forward curves for
gold.
Acquired by the company in
2001, the Harmony gold project
sits on Graham Island off B.C.s
West Coast.
Taseko shares dipped 6% to
close at $4.52 on the first-quarter
results.
Malbex Resources (mbg-v)
wrapped up its 2010/2011 drill pro-
gram at the Del Carmen gold-sil-
ver project in Argentinas San
Juan province, saying it now has
enough data to calculate a resource
estimate for the Rojo Grande tar-
get by year-end.
On June 6 the company reported
the last four holes of its 25-hole
program, which included 5,500
metres.
Were extremely pleased with
the results from the recently
completed drill program at Del
Carmen Nort e, sai d Ti m
Warman, president and CEO, in
a press release. Weve outlined
a significant body of shallow,
oxide-hosted gold-silver miner-
alization at Rojo Grande, and
should now have sufficient data
to compile an initial resource es-
timate.
Of the four holes reported, three
expanded and infilled the Rojo
Grande target, while the fourth,
hole 53, hit a new near-surface
mineralized zone on the northern
flank of Cerro Amarillo, intersect-
ing 27 metres of 0.55 gram gold per
tonne and 2 grams silver per
tonne.
Warman noted the zone was the
discovery the company had hoped
for, because of its similarity to
Rojo Grande. He added Malbex
would follow up with more drill-
ing in the coming season, which is
expected in October, after the
Andean winter ends.
The best hole of the three
punched into the central portion
of Rojo Grande was hole 55, re-
turning 104 metres of 1.96 grams
gold and 25.2 grams silver, includ-
ing 58 metres at 2.95 grams gold
and 35 grams silver.
Previously reported hole 52
stole the show at this years drill
season, which ran from November
2010 to April 2011. The hole hit the
longest interval to date, returning
267 metres of 2.05 grams gold and
29.3 grams silver, including 34 me-
tres of 8.31 grams gold and 70.1
grams silver.
Other high-grade hits include:
hole 46 carrying 46 metres of 3.31
grams gold and 25.2 grams silver,
and 132.6 metres at 2.10 grams gold
and 10.8 grams silver; hole 47 re-
turning 17 metres of 2.72 grams
gold and 71 grams silver; and hole
49 grading 82 metres of 0.71 gram
gold and 9.4 grams silver, and 65
metres of 0.59 gram gold and 6.2
grams silver.
Malbex acquired more cash-on-
hand thanks to a $15-million fi-
nancing the company closed in
early May, where it issued 30 mil-
lion units consisting of one share
and a half-warrant for 50 apiece.
Malbex plans a larger drill program
at Del Carmen for October.
The aim of the program is to ex-
pand Rojo Grande, which remains
open to the southwest and at
depth, and to drill other targets on
the 9-sq.-km Del Carmen Norte al-
teration system, said Warman, add-
ing that the company would also
explore the Del Carmen Sur altera-
tion system.
Both systems are part of the
147-sq.-km Del Carmen concession
package, near the southern end of
the El Indio gold belt.
On news of the programs comple-
tion, Malbexs shares shed 4% to
close at 33, but gained 6% to end
the following day at 35.
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A drill rig on Malbex Resources Del Carmen gold-silver project in San Juan province, Argentina.
Malbex finds new zone, wraps up drill program
Taseko posts Q1 profits, new mine plan
16 JULY 4-10, 2011 THE NORTHERN MINER
Vancouver Looking to make the
most of their respective low-pro-
file gold projects in the U.S., Sea-
bridge Gold (sea-t) and Golden
Predator (gpd-t) have teamed up
to spin out the properties into
Wolfpack Gold.
Wolfpack is yet to be created,
but the two companies behind it
have planned an $8-million, 10-mil-
lion-unit initial public offering to
get it started. Wolfpack will then
issue 17 million shares to Golden
Predator and 16 million shares to
Seabridge to secure five primary
properties in Nevada, plus 38 sec-
ondary U.S. properties from the
two companies.
Golden Predators contributions
include the 17.5-sq.-km Adelaide
property. The Company drilled 59
holes in Adelaide over the past two
years, with the best intercept hitting
7 metres averaging 21.67 grams gold
per tonne. It also initiated permits
for an exploration drift. Seabridges
most advanced property is the
10-sq.-km Castle Rock property,
which has an inferred resource of
14.7 million tonnes grading 0.45
gram gold per tonne.
The group of Nevada proper-
ties has varying royalty and back-
in rights, to which Seabridge and
Golden Predator will add a 12%
net smelter or net profits royalty,
depending on existing royalties.
The deal lets Seabridge and
Golden Predator focus on their
flagship properties north of the bor-
der. Seabridge is advancing the
huge KSM gold-copper project in
British Columbia and the Coura-
geous Lake gold project in the
Northwest Territories, while
Golden Predator has its Yukon gold
properties.
Seabridge has tried to shed sev-
eral projects with mixed success.
Cortez Gold (cut-v) agreed to
pay US$2.9 million plus roughly
US$2 million in shares for a group
of Nevada properties back in
2009, but failed to raise enough
money. OTC-listed Constitution
Mining (now GoldSands Devel-
opment) then agreed to pay over
US$7 million for the properties in
early 2010. A few months later
Constitution shifted to extracting
gold from Peruvian riverbeds in-
stead. Farther north, Bonterra
Resources (btr-v) agreed to op-
tion into Seabridges Red Moun-
tain property in 2009, but that also
fell through.
ICN Resources (icn-v) has
more recently agreed to acquire
Seabridges King River project in
Nevada for US$100,000, plus
250,000 shares. In 2009 ICN op-
tioned into Seabridges nearby
Hog Ranch property. In April Cal-
ico Resources (ckb-v) optioned
Seabridges Grassy Mountain proj-
ect for staged payment totalling
14 million shares and a $10 million
payment, or 10% net profits inter-
est royalty if a feasibility study is
completed.
Golden Predator, meanwhile,
went a simpler route in shedding
properties by setting up Silver
Predator (spd-t) last year, and
then spinning out its silver proper-
ties in Nevada and Mexico into the
new entity in early 2011. Along with
projects from Golden Predator,
Silver Predator secured properties
from Strategic Metals (smd-v)
and Rockhaven Resources
(rk-v).
Seabridges share price was up
54, or 2%, to $27.10 on the day,
while Golden Predators share
price remained flat at 98.
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Gold miner Alamos Gold (agi-t)
has delineated a new gold zone near
its Agi Dagi gold project in Turkey
that it believes has the potential to
develop into a stand-alone pro-
ject, according to a company news
release dated June 16.
Called the Camyurt project, the
new area of mineralization was
found 3 km southeast of the main
Agi Dagi deposit, which is currently
at the prefeasibility stage. Recently
released assays from the new zone
include a 185.7-metre intersection
grading 1.6 grams gold per tonne, as
well as 89.6 metres at 2.34 grams
gold.
Alamos says gold mineralization
at Camyurt is continuous for at
least 700 metres along strike and
at least 200 metres deep. It further
notes the zone is open at depth
and has a potential 600-metre
southwest strike extension that is
currently being drill-tested. The
company has completed 3,400
metres of a planned 10,000-metre
drill program at Camyurt for 2011,
part of a larger 30,000-metre pro-
gram for all its projects in Turkey.
The Toronto-based miner,
which also owns and operates the
highly profitable Mulatos gold
mine in northwest Mexico, ac-
quired Agi Dagi and a few other
Turkish projects in 2009 from
Teck Resources (tck-t, tck-n)
and Fronteer Devel opment
Group, which Newmont Mining
(nem-n, nmc-t) took over in early
2011. Alamos paid 4 million shares
and US$40 million cash to buy the
Turkish units, securing a decent
price according to several analysts
by purchasing the assets at a time
when Teck was unloading its gold
positions and Fronteer needed the
money for its main projects in
Nevada. Increasing political risk in
Turkey may also have been a decid-
ing factor.
The Camyurt zone was origin-
ally discovered by Teck and Fron-
teer in late 2007, when they drilled
five widely spaced core holes
there. Although the holes had poor
core recovery and one was aban-
doned during drilling, significant
mineralization was found, includ-
ing 73.3 metres grading 0.65 gram
gold per tonne with an average core
recovery of 43%.
Alamos drilled six core holes in
the area during the fourth quarter
of 2010 to follow up on the previous
operators results, encountering
58.9 metres grading 1.33 grams
gold in a hole twinned with the
one listed above. Core recovery
was much improved at 82%. The
company has since drilled an addi-
tional 10,000 metres at Camyurt in
2011 to extend the strike length of
the known body of gold mineral-
ization and target areas it believed
were undershot by previous holes,
resulting in the recently released
intersections.
Alamos says all reported inter-
vals represent oxidized mineral-
ization, except for a few minor
intervals of sulphide near the end
of the deeper holes. An encour-
aging 1,200-metre-long silica
anomaly coincides with strong
gold-in-soil values over the min-
eralized area, which is interpreted
to be from sub-vertical oxidized
volcanic and breccia structures.
Outcropping rocks are intensely
silicified, with vuggy silica
present and numerous surface
workings.
The company has two core drill
rigs operating at Camyurt and
hopes to include the zone in its
year-end 2011 global resource and
reserve statement, though it is un-
likely to be included in the highly
anticipated prefeasibility study for
Agi Dagi and the nearby Kirazli
gold project, expected by Decem-
ber 2011.
Alamos planned to release the
prefeasibility study during the
second quarter of this year, but ran
into delays in obtaining drill per-
mits, such as needing to conduct
additional geotechnical and con-
demnation drilling.
The companys project develop-
ment timeline remains unchanged.
Initial production from Kirazli is
expected in the first quarter of 2013
followed by Agi Dagi a year later,
assuming timely approval of
environmental and mining per-
mits.
A preliminary economic assess-
ment for Agi Dagi and Kirazli com-
pleted by Alamos in early 2010 out-
lined an operation with annual
production of 135,000 oz. gold and
621,600 oz. silver over the first
eight years. Using a base-case
scenario of US$800 per oz. gold
and US$13.5 per oz. silver, Alamos
expects the projects capital ex-
penditure to run US$235 million,
with cash costs averaging US$314
per oz. gold net of silver by-product
credits.
The company plans to provide
an updated mineral resource
estimate for Agi Dagi and Kirazli
in the third quarter, which will
include all of the drilling com-
pleted at the projects up to March
2011.
Alamos shares closed 5 on
647,000 shares traded following the
drill-result announcement. The
down-day for markets saw a wide
sell-off in both the S&P/TSX Global
Gold Index and other equities.
Alamos drills new gold zone near Agi Dagi
ALAMOS GOLD
Drillers at Alamos Golds Camyurt gold project in northwestern Turkey.
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