The pieces have been reset and its time set the World on Notice.
The anxious wait for shareholders of Hot Chili Limited (ASX: HCH) to make the next step of the company's journey has arrived. There has been a lot of chat in the last couple of months as the company goes through this new building phase.
Recently the stakeholders of Hot Chili has been experiencing bouts of confusion, frustration and generally desperately seeking information. I think this episode of Coffee with Samso delves into all these questions. At the conclusion of the conversation, I cannot help but think that this company has so much more value than what the market is valuing it at the moment.
This is placement was about providing a very strong rubber stamp from the Australian Institutional investors. This was about the setting up our register and starting to reconstruct that with an Institutional element.
Christian systematically paints some colour into the following points,
- Corporate Fund Raising. - Composition of the incoming money. - Positioning the company as the sole Copper ASX company with a Tier 1 project. - How is the Funding de-risking the project. - The upsides of Cortadera-like satellite projects. - Increasing the Costa Fuego resource in magnitudes making Hot Chili a GLOBAL PLAYER. - Upcoming corporate activities that will allow International access to the company.
Ultimately, I feel that this is one of the best Coffee with Samso that we have done together and a perfect manner to end a tumultuous year for the company and the copper-gold sector. This conversation sets the tone for a very promising 2021 for all stakeholders of the company.
About Hot Chili Limited (ASX:HCH)
Hot Chili is an ASX listed copper explorer and developer with an exciting portfolio of projects at low altitude in Region III on the coastal range of Chile.
The Company is developing a central copper hub named Costa Fuego, which combines all three of its projects (Cortadera, Productora and San Antonio) into what is considered to be one of the most desirable copper development locations in the world.
With a combined Mineral Resource base of 2.9Mt copper, 2.7Moz gold, 9.9Moz silver and 64Kt molybdenum, the addition of the maiden Cortadera mineral resource ranks Costa Fuego amongst the largest copper Mineral Resources along the Chilean coastal range.
Cortadera Copper Project
The Cortadera maiden Mineral Resource of 451Mt at 0.46% copper equivalent (CuEq) takes the total Mineral Resource estimate for Costa Fuego (Cortadera, Productora & El Fuego) to 724Mt at 0.48% CuEq for 2.9Mt copper, 2.7Moz gold, 9.9Moz Silver and 64kt molybdenum. Cortadera also contains a higher grade component of 104Mt at 0.74% CuEq, and this has strong potential to continue growing rapidly with further drilling.
Importantly, Cortadera lies 14km from the Company’s large-scale Productora copper development and adjacent to the high-grade El Fuego satellite copper projects.
Productora Copper Project
Productora is one of the best located large-scale copper developments globally- (coastal range of Chile, low altitude, infrastructure rich, low capital intensity). Mineral Resources already stand at 1.5Mt copper and 1Moz gold, with an Ore Reserve of 167Mt established which underpins long life, bulk open-pit production, over a 10-year mine life, with first 8 years production averaging 66kt copper and 25koz gold annually.
About Christian Easterday
Mr. Easterday is a geologist with over 20 years of experience in the mineral exploration and mining industry. He holds an honours degree in geology from the University of Western Australia, a masters degree in Mineral Economics from the Curtin University of Technology and a masters degree in Business Administration from Curtin’s Graduate School of Business.
Mr Easterday has held several senior positions and exploration management roles with top-tier gold companies including Placer Dome, Hill 50 Gold and Harmony Gold, specialising in structural geology, resource development and mineral economic valuation.
For the past eight years, Mr Easterday has been involved in various aspects of project negotiation. This work has involved negotiations and valuations covering gold, copper, uranium, iron ore, nickel, and tantalum resource projects in Australia and overseas. Mr Easterday is a member of The Australian Institute of Geoscientists.
HCH Price at posting:
3.9¢ Sentiment: Buy Disclosure: Held
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