Bill Cara

Cara Community GSM 50: Pure Gold Mining

Pure Gold Mining (TSX.V: PGM) (Pink: LRTNF) reviewed 9-30-2020

Market Cap:       $643M (USD)

Share Price:        $1.64 (USD)

Shares outstanding: 359,233,359

Cash on hand:    $100M (CAD)

Long-term Debt: $10M (USD) drawn and $25M (USD) from Callable Gold Stream (Dec 2019).

Current operations: Expects Dec 2020 production

Credit: $65M (USD) in tranches at LIBOR + 5.75-6.75% annual.

Insiders own: 32.7%

Website: puregoldmining.ca

Investor Presentation: https://puregoldmining.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/presentation/file_upload/Pure_Gold_Slides_August_2020.pdf

Operates near Red Lake Ontario. The Pure Gold mine expects its first pour in December.

Targeting initial 60K – 100K oz. on production ramp-up (Dec 2020).

Permitted.

Pure Gold is funded thru production with a buffer of 20-30 M (CAD).

Eric Sprott and Rob McEwen are investors.

Anglogold Ashanti owns 15%.

Newmont-Goldcorp is an investor.

High-grade ore: 9 g / ton: 5th highest mine grade in Canada; 17th in the world.

Phase 1 target production numbers: 1.9B (CAD) revenue, 583M (CAD) free cash flow

AISC: $787 (USD) / oz.

Probable reserves 1 M oz; Phase 1. (as of Feb 2019 per 2019 Annual Report).

Phase 2 expansion is in the drilling stage. Fully funded construction.

Bottom line:

  • Pure Gold is one of my favorite Developers
  • I hold a portfolio position with a +7.9% weighting