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Rockcliff Metals Corporation (CSE: RCLF) Fast tracking High-Grade Copper Projects in Manitoba to Production – Initiating Coverage
Rockcliff Metals Corporation (CSE: RCLF) Fast tracking High-Grade Copper Projects in Manitoba to Production – Initiating Coverage
Rockcliff Metals Corporation (“RCLF”, “company”) completed a reorganization, raised $29 million, and installed a brand-new management team in 2019.
Key assets include three advanced stage copper projects (two high-grade copper and one gold-rich copper project), and a leased processing and tailings facility in the Flin Flon-Snow Lake greenstone belt in Manitoba – a prolific mining belt with a long track record of base metals and gold production
All three projects and the mill are strategically placed, offering the company an option to use a ‘hub and spoke’ strategy, and truck ore from all three projects to a centralized mill. This allows for a significantly faster and cheaper path to production.
The combined resource estimate on the three projects (named Talbot, Tower and Rail) is 413 Million Pounds (“Mlbs”) Copper Equivalent (“CuEq”) indicated, and 195 Mlbs of CuEq inferred.
RCLF holds a 100% interest on Tower and Rail, and a 51% interest in Talbot. Hudbay Minerals (NYSE: HBM) owns the remaining 49% interest. Hudbay has dominated the Flin Flon-Snow Lake area, and has mined over 145 Mt of ore from over 85 years of operations.
RCLF is aiming to complete up to 70,000 m of drilling in 2020 (16,000 m completed), including 20,000 to 30,000 m on Tower and Rail to upgrade the known resource, and 30,000 to 40,000 m on exploration drilling to potentially identify future deposits to continue the hub-spoke model.
A Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) on Tower and Rail is expected in Q2-2020. A production decision is expected by Q4.
RCLF also holds five gold properties in the region; Kinross Gold (TSX: K) is earning a 70% interest in one of them by spending $5.5 million over six years.
The company’s current Enterprise Value (“EV”) is just $4 million, which we believe significantly undervalues a portfolio of advanced stage assets with a relatively quick path to production.
We believe that panic selling due to the coronavirus outbreak is offering value investors opportunities to acquire shares of fundamentally solid juniors, such as RCLF, at attractive valuations.
Risks
The value of the company is highly dependent on copper and gold prices.
There is no guarantee that the PEA on Rail and Tower will be favorable.
None of the projects have had an economic assessment.
The estimates / inputs used in our DCF models are very preliminary.