Hi All,
Thought I would try to consolidate some of the more pertinent information on OGX, lists of positives and risks as well as my personal opinion on why I think Orinoco is an attractive stock to hold. I have a day job so am just doing chapters each night
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AND MANAGEMENT
Jeremy Gray (Managing Director): 23 years in mining. Ex Credit Suisse Melbourne, Morgan Stanley London and Credit Suisse London positioned in mining research and equity teams. Various board appointments as well as positions in merchant banking. Of note he was positioned as Global Head of Basic Materials Equity Research for Standard Chartered PLC. Contributed a number of articles for outlets such as Financial Times.
http://orinocogold.com/company-profile/directors-management/140-jeremy-gray
Joseph Pinto (Chairman): Major OGX Shareholder (Approximately 10%). Practicing Solicitor and Barrister of Supreme Court of NSW. Admitted as a Solicitor of the High Court of Australia. Non-Exec at Tyranna Resources.
http://orinocogold.com/company-profile/directors-management/139-mr-joseph-pinto
Richard Crew (Chief Operating Officer. Site based): Experienced in Open pit and Underground mining in Brazil with knowledge built over 30 years. Ex Consultant General Manager for Sao Bento Group who operate 100,000oz/pa Gold mines. BFS management and Process Plant Construction Management Experience. Various Leading Management and Executive positions in multiple Gold Mining Groups.
http://orinocogold.com/company-profile/management/132-richard-crew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGrtHHZYhkY
PROJECTS
Faina Goldfields Project Overview: The Faina Project lies in the Central Brazilian state of Goias. A number of Major Mining Groups operate mines in the northern Greenstone Belt with total production to date of +5.7 million oz of gold. AngloGold operate the Crixas Mine while Yamana Gold operate the Pilar mine. Orinoco controls the majority of the large southern sector named the Southern Greenstone Belt. Orinocos Project consists of 200km2 of tenements including the Cascavel Gold Mine and highly speculative gold exploration areas Sertao, Antena/Xupe, Eliseo, Espanola and Tinteiro
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Cascavel Gold Mine (Current Events focused): Development started Q2 2015. OGX initially commenced Process Plant
(Name plate 100ktpa - 140ktpa) operations in Q3 2016 but suspended operations in Q4 2016 where upon Operational Reviews by SRK and Mining Plus were undertaken to diagnose low gold return from production. Average gold returns continued up until OGX initiated the full Back to Basics production approach under new management in late December.
Orinoco is the 100% owner of the Cascaval Tenement which include developed Cascaval Lode and Mestre Lode with both targets continuing down dip at least another 300m and strike remaining open. A limited JORC on 125m of strike at 125m down dip was conducted on the Cascaval Lode only with inferred estimate comprising 4500t @15.4g/t grading (note this is a relatively small area of the lode and general extrapolation could indicate a resource exceeding 22,000oz plus. Company exploration target for the Cascaval lode and part of the Mestre lode is 23,000 - 24,000oz from down-dip sources.
The Back to Basics Strategy backed by OGX utilises Hammer Mills to break down ore to powder size for easier extraction of gold. The pilot system was first put in practice in December 2017 with initial and subsequent results announced below.
“Corporate and Operations Update” - 18/12/17
https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20171218/pdf/43q81z36bbmznj.pdf (Board and Management replacement update including overview of the ‘Back to Basics’ strategy and results from the Hammer Mill setup including sample as high as 149g/t)
“Spectacular Gold Grades Continue from Pilot Hammer Mill” - 28/12/18
https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20171228/pdf/43qhfczl92gm4n.pdf (Results averaging 38.9g/t)
“Mestre Assays Show Bonanza Grades Up To 265g/t” - 17/01/18
https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180117/pdf/43qw099x2bd2wk.pdf (Title self explanatory)
“Further High Grade Processed Through the Hammer Mills” - 24/01/18
https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180124/pdf/43r0fl3yg3srmr.pdf (Results averaging 25.33g/t and Surprise Sample of 15.42g/t returned from Stockpiled Waste Rock)
“Orinoco Confirms Outstanding Grades of Gold in Tailings” - 31/01/18
https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180131/pdf/43r5mchvvvx7xy.pdf (Results of 5x1t old Tailings samples returning an average of 9.27g/t)
“Mestre Assays Show Further Bonanza Grades up to 185g/t” - 02/02/18
https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180202/pdf/43r8ybkbjgwc80.pdf (Results of further High Grade samples from the Mestre Lode
My opinion of the results from these announcements is that the very high gold grade nature of the mine is confirmed. Proof of the previous process systems failure to capture freed gold is confirmed via the high gold grade returns from Tailings (this is supposed to be processed material will little to no gold in it yet it returns grades higher that most mines at 9.42g/t). The high grade Hammer Mill results from Cascaval Lode, Mestre Lode, Tailings and the Waste rock tell me that Orinocos process issues are behind them and now are able to fully commercialise on the substantial gold grades found which means strong income and profits due to the expectedly low AISC (see public statement on AISC by MD Jeremy Gray in previous youtube link) with portions of profits going to continuous mine development and other tenement exploration. I would consider the Cascaval Mine a ‘company maker’ in itself however. The Company has begun commissioning of a much larger 25t Hammer Mill with first production trial run of 1000t of Tailings. If expected gold returns come from the tailings run then the Company will have a significant revenue source from the approximately 40,000t of dry tailings stored.
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New Larger Hammer Mill in place
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Cascaval Mine
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Elisio Tenement:
More tomorrow...
